"Grapeshot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... brigade to form upon the heights. This order I immediately obeyed, notwithstanding we must be exposed without any kind of cover to the great fire of the enemy's musketry and field-pieces, charged with round and grapeshot, and finely situated upon the eminence above mentioned, having entire command of the ground I was ordered to occupy. My battalion, although new and never before having the opportunity of facing an enemy, sustained their ...
— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston
... children, and the scum rises to the top of the boiling pot. Then comes, in the language of the picturesque historian of the French Revolution, the type of them all—then comes at the end 'the whiff of grapeshot' and the despot. First the government of a mob, and then the tyranny of an emperor, crush the people that shake off the yoke of reasonable law. That is ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren
... was strengthened by a wall of stone, or a house which served as a redoubt, or even an oaken stockade. The garrison was strong and aware of the importance of their position. The Zaporozhtzi attacked the wall fiercely, but were met with a shower of grapeshot. The citizens and residents of the town evidently did not wish to remain idle, but gathered on the ramparts; in their eyes could be read desperate resistance. The women too were determined to take part in the fray, and upon the heads of the Zaporozhians rained down stones, casks of boiling ...
— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... in vexation, "why did you not cast yourself on the bayonets, or present your heart to the grapeshot. That ...
— The Daughter of the Commandant • Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin |
