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  • If you slacked you were given a poke from a guard with his Bayonet. Eric Batty
  • Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by taking refuge under the porte-cochere of No. 6. Les Miserables
  • Furthermore, I would like to chat to you about atheism in a fox-hole as you are about to be bayonetted to death or as you lie dying from cancer on your death-bed. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • What also makes this Leica look-alike even more of a clone is the fact that Konica have made the Hexar RF to accept the special Leica-M bayonet mount lenses, as well as their own Konica lenses.
  • The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
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  • On 7 September, resisting confinement in the post guardhouse, he received a fatal wound from a soldier's bayonet.
  • IR19 survived the French cannister and charged home and put all of the French artillerists to the bayonet. BAR Napoleon Playtest
  • But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
  • They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
  • The soldiers were ordered to do bayonet practice.
  • The eight riflemen, without ammunition but still supporting the machine gun, fixed bayonets and waited.
  • The creature was about the size of a bushbok, was a dirty white in colour, and carried a pair of horns about two and a half feet in length, slightly curved, enormously thick at the base, strongly ridged for about half their length, and thence sweeping smoothly away to points as sharp apparently as those of bayonets. Through Veld and Forest An African Story
  • Thankfully, I was never a Twi-hard though … (is immediately bayoneted by psychopathic twelve-year-olds who think Edward loves them.) # The ReTARDISed Whovianon 03 Apr 2009 at 4: 34 pm Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » A Glimpse into the Editor’s Office: Editing Twilight
  • These feature a bayonet mount, for easy and rapid changing, as well as push/pull eyecups.
  • They were Scotsmen in kilts, brandishing bayonets and wearing feathered bonnets.
  • I have an original IWW poster from WWI, "A bayonet is a killing tool with a worker at either end.", teriffic graphics, that really needs to show up on Antiques Roadshow some day. MSM To Obama: Be Wary Of Left-Wing Groups Demanding Too Much Change
  • A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. 
  • The officers to be armed with a sword or hanger, a fusee, bayonet and belt, with a cartridge box to contain twelve cartridges; and each private of matoss shall furnish themselves with good horses of at least fourteen hands and an half high, and to be armed with a sword and pair of pistols, the holsters of which to be covered with bearskin caps. The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Whether the Second Amendment Applies to the States
  • It needed no bayonets to protect it, and required no military aid to execute its judgments.
  • Finally, the Federals ran out of ammunition and turned to fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets, scrambling through the forest and the underbrush.
  • How a bayonet from a German trench held up a placard with those magic words of good cheer that ever move the world -- "A Merry The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia
  • These feature a bayonet mount, for easy and rapid changing, as well as push/pull eyecups.
  • A marine with diarrhea is being chased by a Japanese soldier waving a bayonet. US soldier with BAR | My[confined]Space
  • Thy father would have flung thee ungrudged, into a hell of bayonets, me, too, and would have followed after, if by so doing he could have served the cause he held in trust. Rung Ho
  • At TransMatic we utilize our deep draw capabilities to serve the automotive industry in braking, oxygen sensor, fuel delivery, air bag, bayonet socket, and sensor markets.
  • So on may 23, 1945, the tommies came in with bayonets drawn and arrested everyone they could find. Germania-Brendan McNally « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • Under a terrible storm of shot and shell the line pressed forward steadily through the timber, and as it emerged on the plain took the double-quick and with fixed bayonets rushed at the enemy's first line. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • The basic British infantryman, like his French and German contemporaries, was issued with his uniform, webbing and a rifle with bayonet.
  • Which is about the strongest closing statement he could make given the fact that Da Mayor basically threatened to basically thrust and fire a bayonetted rifle into his anus. Mayor Daley points gun at reporter. | RedState
  • A soldier tried to shove a bayonet into his throat, but the steel buckled against his adam's apple superconductor.
  • Unexpectedly faced with detention in the post guardhouse, he made a desperate break for freedom and received a mortal bayonet wound.
  • One was shot in the leg and another bayoneted through the hip, and all were sent back to camp, where they were awarded six weeks in the punishment camp, known as the strafe barracks. The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland
  • Bury the dead, bayonet the wounded and keep moving.
  • The sight of armed troops shooting and bayoneting the very citizens I was elected to serve and represent was spectacular.
  • It was very much an artillery war and in the British army shells, mortars, and grenades accounted for 61 per cent of all wounds, with bayonet wounds accounting for only 0.3 per cent.
  • He prays to God in some dim, dumb way, and vaguely imagines when he has been expedited from this sad world by a machete slash or bayonet thrust or high-velocity steel-jacketed bullet that all will be made square in that other world where God rules and where taskmasters are not. Mexico's Army and Ours
  • One platoon splits off and marches toward the crowd, their bayoneted rifles set at a 45-degree angle.
  • Then they engaged in hand to hand fighting, bayonet against spears and swords.
  • Sergeant Todd was outside the square roaring and bayoneting with a professionalism that, even here, amazed Charlie.
  • Also, a great nation having made up its mind that hanging is quite the wholesomest process for its homicides in general, can yet with mercy distinguish between the degrees of guilt in homicides; and does not yelp like a pack of frost-pinched wolf-cubs on the blood-track of an unhappy crazed boy, or gray-haired clodpate Othello, "perplexed i 'the extreme," at the very moment that it is sending a Minister of the Crown to make polite speeches to a man who is bayoneting young girls in their father's sight, and killing noble youths in cool blood, faster than a country butcher kills lambs in spring. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • There was a psychological moment as the crouching man came up into the trench with his rifle and bayonet, when his chin was in the perfect position: moreover, the sapper was a full back of merit. No Man's Land
  • Officers were armed with sword and revolver, other ranks with bayonet and pistol.
  • A bayonet blade is forged from the finest steel.
  • The family and their servants were then shot, bayoneted, their bodies hacked to pieces, set alight, doused with acid, and the remains thrown into a mine shaft. Great dynasties of the world: The Romanovs
  • Lashed to the end of the blowpipe is a sharp bayonet with which they administer the coup de grace once the pig is cornered.
  • Everyone was confused and uncertain of what to do - until the British let out a loud "huzzah" and fired off a volley before advancing at the double quick toward you and your friends, bayonets at the ready. The Moderate Voice
  • He was bayoneted to death in the sickbay, reportedly wielding his eponymous knife to the end.
  • Other lethal weapons such as swords, bayonets, crossbows and knives have also been surrendered.
  • Instead “they will smoke, drink, eat murphies, brawl, box, and set the house on fire about their ears, even though you had a sentinel standing over with a fixed gun and bayonet to prevent them.” A Renegade History of the United States
  • He leaned back on one foot and propped his bayonet against the wall.
  • A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. 
  • Captain Asa G. Freeman had an extra horse, and I got on him and joined the cavalry for several days, but all the time some passing cavalryman would make some jocose remark about "Here is a webfoot who wants to jine the cavalry, and has got a bayonet on his gun and a knapsack on his back. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
  • Despite being wounded repeatedly, he pressed the attack, and after his .45 ammo was exhausted, he picked up a rifle and bayoneted several enemy.
  • When purchasing bayonets, look at as much of the merchant's stock as you can and check the condition carefully.
  • One jittery grunt comes close to bayoneting a prisoner before being stopped by fellow Marines.
  • I did not slow until one of the soldiers, waving his foraging cap from the jagging bayonet of his musket, ripped me back to the moment. Confederates
  • On the Moroccan side, security services with shotguns and rifles with fixed bayonets have met migrant workers.
  • He usually hit the chest, and our teeth bared as the hilt of the bayonet quivered in the dummy.
  • He then bayoneted his way through infiltrated enemy soldiers to a second gun emplacement and assisted in its operation.
  • The eyepiece is quickly and easily affixed with a three point bayonet mount.
  • Prussian military rifles first mounted sword bayonets in 1787 and the armies of most other countries followed suit over the following 30 or 40 years.
  • Prussian military rifles first mounted sword bayonets in 1787 and the armies of most other countries followed suit over the following 30 or 40 years.
  • Every act and movement of the Union commander... clearly indicated his purpose to discard bullets and depend upon bayonets.
  • A soldier plunged a bayonet into his body.
  • Then the scene shifted to Ethiopia, where Mussolini, I think in contemptuous defiance of the entire world drove with his bayonet and guns the King of Kings, who went begging for his throne to all places. India's Fight For Freedom
  • He claims to be a former SEAL who was bayoneted by a VC and killed him, of course. Merle todd "BJ" johnson
  • They said that they and others had bayoneted prisoners tied to stakes not out of blind fanaticism, but failing to do so would have meant a shame on their manhood, a criterion defined by the group.
  • If someone spends several years in a POW camp being beaten, tortured, starved, threatened with death, having bones broken and never set, having their groins bayonetted and never treated, having their teeth knocked out....then they have the right to talk about that experience, should they survive, all that they want. How stupid is it for Obama supporters to question the truth of McCain's "cross in the dirt" story?
  • It was impossible to resist the line of World War I toys - including doughboys with fixed bayonets and artillery attached to caissons that were pulled by teams of horses.
  • A total of 43 knives, a bayonet, swordstick, Chinese throwing star, a large bullet and a container of CS spray were handed in by the public during the two-week amnesty.
  • The executioners are armed with rifles carrying bayonets and they stand about two steps away from the condemned.
  • We passed the demilune, we passed the culverin, bayoneting the artillerymen at their guns; we advanced across the two tremendous demilunes which flank the counterscarp, and prepared for the final spring upon the citadel. Novels by Eminent Hands
  • More than 260 knives, coshes, guns and bayonets went on show yesterday as West Yorkshire Police revealed the potentially lethal array of weapons handed in during an amnesty.
  • The Highlanders love to use cold steel; the claymore was their old weapon, and the bayonet is its nearest equivalent in modern war. A Minstrel in France
  • As I tried the feel of a used $129.95 Polish assault rifle with a handy bayonet, the seller beamed.
  • There is a vivid description of a fierce bayonet charge in the novel.
  • The rebels were not only outnumbered but outclassed in weapons, being themselves heavily dependent upon broadswords and shields while their enemies had muskets and bayonets and above all artillery.
  • However, I led the way, holding my candle high, and keeping the sword bayonet very handy. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder
  • He added, clearly the issue bayonet is also a no-no - you could have someone's eye out with that. Archive 2009-05-01
  • After the inspection, the parade marched through the city centre with colours flying, drums beating and bayonets fixed.
  • In the future, there will be smart bombs and bayonets.
  • A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. 
  • And if that isn't enough for you, there's also a bayonet style clip, which can be switched for right or left hand carry or even removed for pouch storage.
  • It is certain that the anthropoid ape is lustfully excited by the presence of women and I have related how at Cairo (1856) a huge cynocephalus would have raped a girl had it not been bayonetted. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Bucher saw what looked like a boarding party, with helmets, vests and rifles with bayonets, transferring from one ship to another.
  • In the fierce charge Capt. Millett bayoneted two enemy soldiers and boldly continued on, throwing grenades, clubbing and bayoneting the enemy, while urging his men forward by shouting encouragement.
  • The officer commanding it stopped the ambassador and the linguister and let the soldiers go on at a round trot toward the great gate, which stood open, the bayonet on the musket of the sentry shining with an errant gleam of light like the sword of fire at the entrance of Paradise. The Frontiersmen
  • A crossbow, rifles, swords and bayonets were some of the items collected at police stations across the region.
  • I plan to use all of the features I can that piss off the gun grabbers: bayonet lugs, flash hiders, bipods, pistol grips, and so on. November 7th, 2008
  • Drills, physical exercises, bayonet exercises, inspections, schools, parades, marches, and reviews occupied the soldiers.
  • These flamboyant Turkish uniformed troops also had muskets with bayonets of this form, and a number of yataghan blade bayonets appeared for both U.S. and Confederate forces.
  • Other lethal weapons such as swords, bayonets, crossbows and knives have also been surrendered.
  • During the last of these attacks he leapt out and bayoneted two enemy soldiers.
  • I constantly had brought to mind the anecdote of the Crimean Zouaves, about to charge a redan, who answered their officer's query as to the number of cartridges they had by tapping their saber bayonets. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
  • The bayonet penetrates through the target.
  • Casualties amounted to 40,000, with both sides shooting and bayoneting the wounded.
  • Where the sun falls aslantwise under the arch a sentinel, with musket and bayonet, paces to and fro in the entrance, and other soldiers lounge close by. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
  • Moro juramentado pierced by a bayonet, drive the steel further into himself, in order to reach the soldier at the other end of the gun, whom he cut in two before he died. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
  • It needed no bayonets to protect it, and required no military aid to execute its judgments.
  • The Royal Yeomanry band played the Regimental Anthem as we all marched along with the Squadron's guidon, or colours, swords and guns with fixed bayonets.
  • In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear ... and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too. THE NUMBERS
  • No fusileer, with a fixed bayonet and piece loaded with ball, now dictates to the auditors of the pit that such a seat must hold so many persons, though several among them might, probably, be as broad-bottomed as Dutchmen. Paris as It Was and as It Is
  • He wore full uniform, was fully equipped, crimson chechia, snowy gaiters, and terrible sabre-bayonet. The Maids of Paradise
  • Your boyfriend Broadway joe has a bayonet.
  • My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear. Fiancée
  • They shaved freshly, and donned their red uniforms, bandoliers, bayonets and cross-straps.
  • A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. 
  • The sentry called for help and was soon joined by eight soldiers who formed a semicircle and tried to keep the crowd at bay with their loaded muskets and fixed bayonets.
  • A soldier tried to shove a bayonet into his throat, but the steel buckled against his adam's apple superconductor.
  • Other lethal weapons such as swords, bayonets, crossbows and knives have also been surrendered.
  • In a two-day battle, Radetzky concentrated 33,000 troops, took Custoza with the bayonet, and crushed the Piedmontese army.
  • The latter bayoneted the struggling wretches, though one I saw who gained his feet and flew at a soldier's throat with his teeth. Chapter 23: The People of the Abyss
  • The firepower of an infantry company was increased by a third as the pikemen were phased out and issued with muskets and bayonets.
  • Another remark by an officer deserves, I think, to be noted here, namely, that the bayonet is a good weapon, but its use must be taught. Three Months in the Soudan
  • Innocent civilians had been shot and bayoneted.
  • One of the Democratic Party's greatest orators argued, ‘We are not for propagating philanthropy at the point of the bayonet.’
  • Those who could not keep up with the march because of physical weakness and those were tried to escape were beaten, shot or bayoneted.
  • The units manage fitness by frequent fitness testing, bayonet PT, combatives, and road march training.
  • He fixed a bayonet to the end of his rifle.
  • His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.
  • The Militia Act of 1792, signed by George (The Communist) Washington, mandated (unfunded) that nearly every “free able-bodied white male citizen” between 18 and 45 “provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges, …” Think Progress » Romney Struggles To Distance RomneyCare From ObamaCare: Ours Was ‘Bipartisan’
  • Part of the horror of such memorable coups of contemporary photojournalism as the pictures of a Vietnamese bonze reaching for the gasoline can, of a Bengali guerrilla in the act of bayoneting a trussed-up collaborator, comes from the awareness of how plausible it has become, in situations where the photographer has the choice between a photograph and a life, to choose the photograph. G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
  • One could even say, as one bayonets an enemy soldier, ‘It's either you or me.’
  • There is a vivid description of a fierce bayonet charge in the novel.
  • Next day the shamefaced deputies of the Riksdag were forced to walk between lines of troops with fixed bayonets to assemble in a Parliament Hall surrounded by field guns, each with an artillerist standing behind it with a lighted taper.
  • Rarely is a charge with the bayonet made in the course of a war, though the bayonet is the most terrible of weapons. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Just as it is easier to drop a bomb on a battalion than to bayonet a soldier, it is easier to support a policy with many unseen victims over one with a few highly visible ones.
  • The sound of cannons firing and bayonets clashing together is what I think of when I think of war.
  • Most were happy to leave behind the bayonets that caught the brush and jammed into their sides as they hit the ground.
  • Mrs Courtney was dead in her chair, shot and bayonetted, with her head buried in the cushions, and when I looked beyond I vomited on the spot - her three children were there as well. Fiancée
  • An M4 rifle stands upright, its bayonet lodged into a felt-covered wooden desk in front of the flags, the pistol grip facing the audience.
  • We passed the demilune, we passed the culverin, bayoneting the artillerymen at their guns; we advanced across the two tremendous demilunes which flank the counterscarp, and prepared for the final spring upon the citadel. Novels by Eminent Hands
  • There is a vivid description of a fierce bayonet charge in the novel.
  • But Shaheed was staring at a maidan in which lady doctors were being bayoneted before they were raped, and raped again before they were shot. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
  • The recruitment sergeant reputedly stuck a havercake on the top of his bayonet as an enticement for the tykes to enlist.
  • He then jumped into the crater with a knobkerrie and had brained another of the enemy when he was himself struck through the shoulder by a bayonet.
  • Birch was then brutally bayoneted to death, his face mutilated beyond recognition. A Covert Affair
  • Bayonet's design reflects that tendency, with a number of holes doglegging to the left.
  • A soldier plunged a bayonet into his body.
  • With a stout string he drew his cannon up to the large oilnut tree, and then with a real bayonet fixed to a wooden gun, he would lie at full length under the shade, calling himself a sharpshooter guarding the cannon. Captain Horace
  • One platoon splits off and marches toward the crowd, their bayoneted rifles set at a 45-degree angle.
  • There are many shapes of camera lens bayonet - sockets.
  • Bayonet mounts, flash suppressors, and ventilated handgrips were some of the requirements that were previously necessary to ban a weapon.
  • At 5: 30 P.M. local time, truckloads of soldiers carrying rifles with fixed bayonets surrounded the county courthouse and City Hall.
  • For God's sake, he was bayonetted in the shoulder, groin, suffered two broken arms while serving our country ... and went on to endure the the punishment of the North Vietnamese. Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies
  • Through a doorway to the right I saw two more soldiers opening a crate of champagne with their bayonets.
  • On arrival at the selected site of the camp the Sergeant-Major blew a whistle, when all those whose duty it was to assist ran towards him, the men to mark the tent-poles, bayonets in hand, and two others with the mekometer, to ensure a true right-angle. The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland
  • Hearing noises downstairs, he got out of bed, picked up his bayonet and went to investigate.
  • The loaded machine gun was reportedly discovered along with six bayonets and a sniper rifle in packages marked as computer equipment.
  • He viciously bayoneted the straw dummy.
  • Claims earned 3 Purple Hearts - claims earned one of them after he was bayoneted by a VC, claims to have the bayonet and it still has his blood on it. JAMES ELIAS HAGER
  • Well - that isn't democracy, but rule by local busybodies, tribal chiefs and jacks-in-office, plus a scattering of carpetbaggers recently returned from exile and supported by our bayonets.
  • He removed his bayonet from his rifle, and was using it as a combat knife now, since a rifle would be too cumbersome.
  • It was a period of awful suspense betwixt the opening of the outward gate and that of the door of the apartment, when there appeared — no guard with bayonets fixed, or watch with clubs, bills, or partisans, but a good-looking young woman, with grogram petticoats, tucked up for trudging through the streets, and holding a lantern in her hand. Rob Roy
  • The firepower of an infantry company was increased by a third as the pikemen were phased out and issued with muskets and bayonets.
  • When the lockers were later searched coshes, knives, bayonets, and swords were found.
  • A soldier tried to shove a bayonet into his throat, but the steel buckled against his adam's apple superconductor.
  • The footguards poured a deadly fire into the front, and the 52nd regiment into the flank of their columns; as they wavered under the storm of shot a bayonet charge followed, and the imperial guard, hitherto almost invincible, was dissolved into a mob of fugitives scattered over the plain. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)
  • Like just about everybody else, I'd had to practice things like sumo, judo, kendo, and jukenjutsu (bayonet fighting) during the war.
  • Colonel Barakzai made as if to raise his bayonetted gun once again, to run forward, when he noticed that something was amiss. KARA KUSH
  • He qualified Expert in everything from bayonets to Dragons (wire-guided missiles). Mark M. Hancock biography
  • The pipers of the Highland division sound their battle hymns, bayonets are levelled - and the Eighth Army is swallowed up in the darkness and confusion of battle.
  • With drums beating, bands playing and bayonets fixed, they marched through the town's streets to the delight of the crowds.
  • Your bayonet is actually a pretty good steak knife.
  • The firepower of an infantry company was increased by a third as the pikemen were phased out and issued with muskets and bayonets.
  • Immediately after sunrise the Sergeant of the Guard collected the heavy bunch of gate keys from the Governor's house and, accompanied by troops with rifles and fixed bayonets, proceeded to open each gate in turn and lower its drawbridge.
  • Finally the socket bayonet slides onto the musket and then locks on a barrel lug.
  • Shortly after, when her telephone call for help is ignored by a gossiping switchboard operator, she meets her own end, on the blade of a bayonet.
  • He learned about digging trenches and foxholes, using a bayonet, how to properly jump from an airplane and what to do if he happened to land in a tree.
  • Jack Black could play Buster, but only so I could slo-mo him being bayoneted.repeatedly. preferrably in the face. Cheeseburger Gothic » Again, while we wait for the Geek…
  • A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. 
  • boys" who can hand a tree or start a raft over a fall, throttle a bear, or pole a barge down the rapids, and in whose hands a musket and bayonet is no more than a toasting-fork. The Civil War in America
  • The collection included a semi-automatic Beretta pistol, blank-firing pistols, several air rifles, a flail and a large number of samurai-type swords, bayonets, knives, machetes and crossbows with bolts.
  • He fixed a bayonet to the end of his rifle.
  • Rebel riflemen flung themselves on smoking union cannons firing pointblank, bayonets stabbing, taking vengeance on the cannoneers.
  • A bayonet blade is forged from the finest steel.
  • One fled the country, another was tortured to death and a third was bayoneted in his bed.
  • Lieut. Martin says that the bayonets and rifle-barrels of the front rank were sometimes struck and jammed _by bullets from the rear rank_. Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute
  • Conservation in 1992 revealed that the goblet in Plate V is made of separate pieces of ivory joined by ‘so called bayonet mounts.’
  • Witnesses told of beatings with rifle butts and sticks and the use of bayonets and guns, he said.
  • They ran him through with their bayonets and clubbed him with iron bars.
  • They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
  • The invention and proliferation of the ring bayonet in the 1690s led to the disappearance of the pike as a standard infantry weapon.
  • Unless of course the enemy is way ahead of her and has booby trapped it with protruding bayonets and land mines, which Caitlin spies at the last minute and escapes death - to quote maxwell smart ‘by that much’. Cheeseburger Gothic » Gentlemen’s Club.
  • The eyepiece is quickly and easily affixed with a three point bayonet mount.
  • Tyndall sneaked over, grabbed the weapon, and bayoneted the guard. TROY TYNDALL
  • In my mind's eye were the dirty yelling faces, the shaken fists, the hail of clods and brickbats that had knocked the Provost's hat off, the Peninsular veteran sergeant bawling to the wavering militia to hold their line, the snarling obscenities as the mob gave back sullenly before the bayonets, your correspondent near to soiling his fine Cherrypicker "breeks" with fear … and this glowering inquisitor with his rasping voice and peeler's eyes remembered it, too. Flashman and the angel of the lord
  • Murphy progged his bayonet through the canvas, and sunk the deadly point of the instrument into the bag of potatoes. In the Midst of Alarms
  • He was busy making Colts, bayonets, rifles, and pistols to send to Major General Hardee.
  • And with the rise of the curtain Jimmy O'Shea had stepped on to the boards; for no man who knew him could ever hear the word bayonet without recalling him, if only for a second. No Man's Land
  • A bayonet had been thrust through his belly.
  • He saw Su destroy snow send of that drops bayonet on the floor of part and bring over here it wipes clean, then remind of tore off Su cripple snow small of the back get raiment.
  • Every act and movement of the Union commander... clearly indicated his purpose to discard bullets and depend upon bayonets.
  • I examined the assortment of small arms, grenades and bayonets used in hand-to-hand encounters.
  • the line of soldiers advanced with their bayonets fixed
  • I wear around my neck a safety charm given to me in 2004 by a woman named Helema, who was wearing it when her village was attacked, when her baby son was torn from her arms, and bayonetted before her eyes. CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2009
  • The weapon had not been thrown from any distance, it had been thrust in from below, possibly at a run, possibly not, but if not, the person holding it must have been either very strong or accustomed to bayoneting.
  • Under heavy fire from artillery, aircraft, machine guns and rifles and with bayonets in hand and yelling wildly, they charged into history.
  • The list of available arms has been expanded with several additions plus the ability to affix bayonets to rifles.
  • Beheadings, cutting of throats and casual shootings were the more common actions — compared to instances of bayonet stabbing, rape, disembowelment, rifle butt beating and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week in tropical heat. The Greatest Military Defeats In U.S. History | myFiveBest

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