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Definition of Fusillading
1. fusillade [v] - See also: fusillade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fusillading
Literary usage of Fusillading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"... of artillery—A celebrated Chinese General killed—Thunderstorms and fusillading—A
brilliant scene—Storming the defences—The guards holding their own. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"2. high-tide : and Toulon sees fusillading, grape-shotting in mass, as Lyons
saw ; and " death is poured out in great floods, vomie a grands flats ..."
3. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"Guillotining there was at Nantes, till the Headsman sank worn out: then fusillading '
in the Plain of Saint-Mauve ;' little children ..."
4. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Whereupon you must try fusillading ; to which perhaps still ... over France
universally, there is Civic Feast and hightide : and Toulon sees fusillading, ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"... and now the guillotining and fusillading may begin. Civil horrors, truly: but
at least that infamy of an English domination is purged away. ..."
6. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"... of artillery—A celebrated Chinese General killed—Thunderstorms and fusillading—A
brilliant scene—Storming the defences—The guards holding their own. ..."
7. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"2. high-tide : and Toulon sees fusillading, grape-shotting in mass, as Lyons
saw ; and " death is poured out in great floods, vomie a grands flats ..."
8. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"Guillotining there was at Nantes, till the Headsman sank worn out: then fusillading '
in the Plain of Saint-Mauve ;' little children ..."
9. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"Whereupon you must try fusillading ; to which perhaps still ... over France
universally, there is Civic Feast and hightide : and Toulon sees fusillading, ..."
10. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"... and now the guillotining and fusillading may begin. Civil horrors, truly: but
at least that infamy of an English domination is purged away. ..."
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