Immediately the cannon began to thunder, and demolished everything, and the king's daughter herself was forced to come and beg for mercy.
And he dressed the flea and taught it to perform, to present arms and to fire a cannon off,—but it was a little cannon.
No bronze cannon can sound over the land at the birth of a royal child as the thunder sounded at the death of the old oak.
Every tradesman, shopman, student, and schoolmaster is on the ramparts, ready to guard and defend, with no fear of the red-hot cannon balls.
She doesn't think of her mission or of her melodious future; she is still playing, while the struggles of nations shake the air and sound figures of pen and cannon rush to and fro - runes of mystic reading.
I was on board the Denmark, in Steene Bille's squadron; I had a man by my side whom even the cannon balls seemed to fear.
The colored lanterns had been extinguished, no more rockets rose in the air, and the cannon had ceased firing; but the sea became restless, and a moaning, grumbling sound could be heard beneath the waves: still the little mermaid remained by the cabin window, rocking up and down on the water, which enabled her to look in.
