How To Use Powder and shot In A Sentence

• We lay up in the stuffy, sweltering heat of the wood all afternoon, listening to the incessant thunder of the cannonading; one consolation was the regular crash of the artillery salvoes, which indicated that Wheeler's gunners were making good practice, and must still be well stocked with powder and shot. Fiancée
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• Just a plain, long-nebbed, useless bird, not worth powder and shot, very douce in the plumage, and always at the same song like Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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• There is no extant attestation for the third member of Awa's coven, Monique, a female brothel-keeper who wants to be a gunner and gets her chance at the 1522 Battle of La Bicocca, where the Swiss pikemen marched to their first decisive defeat, by powder and shot. The Enterprise of Death
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• This whole debate tends to savour of Western self-indulgence - all that powder and shot being used in this ultimately silly battle when there are other things going on that really matter.
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• This whole debate tends to savour of Western self-indulgence - all that powder and shot being used in this ultimately silly battle when there are other things going on that really matter.
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