" "Can the cannon support the shock of the pyroxyle?
It seemed as if the violent storm had produced a truce between the besiegers and the besieged, and that the cannon were silenced by the louder detonations of the storm.
The drilling-lessons were always protracted by episodes of warlike narrative, much more interesting to Tom than Philip's stories out of the Iliad; for there were no cannon in the Iliad, and besides, Tom had felt some disgust on learning that Hector and Achilles might possibly never have existed.
" he cried, "that is a cannon firecracker, and if it goes off it will blow the place to pieces, and me and you, too!
Well, it sounded like regular cannon, and the birds in the wood got awfully scared.
The trumpeters are tooting and the soldiers are saluting, And the cannon they are shooting and the motor-cars are hooting, As the—Hero—comes!
" said Huck; "they done that last summer, when Bill Turner got drownded; they shoot a cannon over the water, and that makes him come up to the top.
He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass door-knob, a dog-collar—but no dog—the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash.
Similarly, former Yahoo Chief Carol Bartz is frequently cited for her "salty language," which has been used as evidence that she is "emotional" and a "loose cannon.
6 on the TV DVD Sales tally in March 2009, while a song, "Pop Off," by JX Cannon featuring Obama, reached No.
" "It's become so bad that her lawyer Laura Wasser, who has represented many divorcing celebrities over the years, such as Ashton Kutcher during his split from Demi Moore, Heidi Klum and Seal as well as Mariah Carey amid her divorce from Nick Cannon, is apparently going to quit and has 'made it known' to Jolie because it's become too 'venomous'.
" "It's become so bad that her lawyer Laura Wasser, who has represented many divorcing celebrities over the years, such as Ashton Kutcher during his split from Demi Moore, Heidi Klum and Seal as well as Mariah Carey amid her divorce from Nick Cannon, is apparently going to quit and has 'made it known' to Jolie because it's become too 'venomous'.
The many luminaries Sobel profiles include Annie Jump Cannon, who devised Harvard's stellar classification system and evaluated some half a million stars.
They are generally subdivided into three categories :single-bang firecrackers, double-bang firecrackers (or cannon crackers) ,and cannonade crackers.
"On a day like today, you might feel exhilarated like you've just been shot out of a cannon at the circus and even invincible.
It was from those mountains that I remember the firing of the Topeh chasht, the "noon cannon.
In fact, attempts to dig earwax out generally pack it in further -- 'like loading a Civil War cannon, ' says Rod Moser, a physician assistant at Sutter Roseville Pediatrics, Roseville, Calif.
It looks like the artist Anish Kapoor has been let loose with his wax cannon again.
How many it had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.
I have said this was the worst thing possible for me, for helpless as she looked in this situation, with the canvas cracking like cannon and the blocks trundling and banging on the deck, she still continued to run away from me, not only with the speed of the current, but by the whole amount of her leeway, which was naturally great.
