Sentence examples for ordnance of from inspiring English sources

In the distance is a perimeter fence and beyond that, the ordnance of war.

By the early 1500s, cannon founders throughout Europe had learned to manufacture good ordnance of cast bronze.

As the song explodes repeatedly, it is unclear whether we are hearing the ordnance of a race war or the celebration of an armistice.

The use of pies as ordnance, of course, is a hallmark of silent comedy; the shtick culminated with the hurling of more than 3,000 pies in the 1927 Laurel and Hardy film "Battle of the Century".

Borovo Naselje lies between Vukovar, a name emblematic of the atrocities of the war that tore Yugoslavia apart in the early 1990s, and Borovo Selo, where the first ordnance of the war was fired.

It now supplies ordnance of a more peaceable sort, namely a restaurant called, unsurprisingly, the Arsenal (30 Market Street; 302-328-1290), perfect for a sightseer's quick lunch, providing more elaborate fare in the evening.

"We ended up having to use some larger ordnance out of our Air Force to reduce some of the buildings around here".

On the night of the bombing, at around 2 A.M., he heard the thud of ordnance on the mountain.

However, reappointed as Captain-General, Master-General of Ordnance, and Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards, Marlborough once more became a person of influence and respect at court.

The Ordnance Survey of Britain, the Institut Géographique National of France, and the Landestopographie of Switzerland are examples.

The district of Archanes was divided in ten sectors (based on the municipal ordnance plan of house addresses) and a sample of 65 70 houses was drawn from each sector using tables of random numbers.