"Fusillade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the onset, When bayonet and Highlanders' blade Sank crushed where the trenches were flashing In the roll of the long fusillade. Repulsed! O how sadly at night-fall The remnant was gathered and told! In silence they thought of the wounded, And mourned the brave hearts ...
— Memories of Canada and Scotland - Speeches and Verses • John Douglas Sutherland Campbell
... his Lewiston, Costigan with a heavy automatic pistol whose bullets were explosive shells of tremendous power. But the man in gray, surrounded by an impenetrable wall of force, only smiled at the fusillade, tolerantly and maddeningly. Costigan leaped fiercely, only to be hurled backward as he struck that unyielding, invisible wall. A vicious beam snapped him back into place, the weapons were snatched away, and all three captives were held in their ...
— Triplanetary • Edward Elmer Smith
... they will dare to keep up a fusillade?" he presently said, watching the deck of the drab boat in the glare of light that Halstead now ...
— The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless - The Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise • H. Irving Hancock
... were hundreds of miners, and all were armed with a couple each of revolvers, the rattling of the fusillade ...
— Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer - The Stranger in Camp • Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
... Tom Turner's trumpet, and drowned the final notes of the aerial concert. It did not interrupt the terrestrial fusillade. At last a shell exploded a few feet below the "Albatross," and then she mounted into the inaccessible ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne
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