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... son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr. is a loose cannon, their strategy is to pack him off to the UK to head up a European branch of the firm - a branch they have no intention of sending work. The unwitting Hopkins Toppleton, Jr. is, however, determined to make his mark. (S...

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...I "lale of Our Dreams" I 'Corcoran Cadets" I Williams Medley INTERMISSION "Cannon Ball" "The Time, the Place, and the Girl" Selections "Oa—ka—I'X)—aa—...

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...hat masking stuffe is heere? 2073 Whats this? a sleeue? ’tis like demi cannon, 2074 What, vp and downe caru’d like an apple Tart? 2075 Hee...

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... -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Captain Cook’s Ship and the Thundering Cannon. 51 -- First Encounters with Europeans. 55 -- Kamehameha Sails with Cook. 59 -- Training for Battle in Kohala. 62 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Rebukes Kamehameha and Prepares for War. 65 -- Fighting at Hakalau. 68 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Kil...

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... -- Disaster at Kakanilua, Maui. 41 -- Slaughter on Maui. 44 -- Kiwala‘o Sent to Sue for Peace. 47 -- On Board Captain Cook’s Ship and the Thundering Cannon. 51 -- First Encounters with Europeans. 55 -- Kamehameha Sails with Cook. 59 -- Training for Battle in Kohala. 62 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Rebukes Kamehameha and Prepares for War. 65 -- Fighting at Hakalau. 68 -- Kekuhaupi‘o Kil...

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... the King’s 122 Puck of Pook’s Hill ships—and for others. Serpentines and cannon mostly. When the guns were cast, down would come the King’s Officers... ... King’s Order on Master John Collins for twenty serpentines (wicked little cannon they be!) to fur- nish a venture of ships. I drafted him thus sittin... ...- melted. Then John Collins would shake his head, and vow he could pass no cannon for the King’s service that were not perfect. Saints! How Sebastian ... ...They’d sure never dare to do it,” I said; “and, for another thing, selling cannon to the King’s enemies is black trea- son—hanging and fine.” “‘It is ... ...serpentines laid out on pease straw. No conceal at all! “‘There’s two demi-cannon my end,” says Sebastian, slap- ping metal. “They’ll be for Andrew Ba... ...ollins’s voice come up all hollow: “T wenty-four serpentines and two demi- cannon. That’s the full tally for Sir Andrew Barton.” “‘Courtesy costs naug... ... scurvily,” says Sebastian, looking at his knuckles. “But what of the demi-cannon? I could do with ‘em well, but they are not in the King’s Or- der.” ... ...- less, in his zeal for the King and his love for you, John adds those two cannon as a gift. ’Tis plain as this coming day- light, ye stockfish!” “‘So... ...rant that Master John Collins will freely give you your guns and your demi-cannon, Master Sebastian.” He 127 Rudyard Kipling breaks into his proper v...

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...n when this is over." Brent said nothing. "Pierce has become more than a loose cannon. This guy is smart and very dangerous." Orinthall paused. "I ...

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...under pressure to finish, or else the contract will default to their rivals, Blakeson & Grinder. Mr. Job Titus has heard of Tom Swift and Tom's giant cannon, which is used in protecting the Panama Canal, and wants to hire Tom to develop a special blasting powder to help them finish the excavation. Mr. Damon, Tom's very good friend, arrives in the middle of this conversatio...

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...eful. Auxiliary to these main points, to be sure, are their thunderings of cannon, their marching and music, their fizzlegigs and fire- works; but I w... ...they would do this, go back to the era of our Independence, and muzzle the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return; they must blow out the mora... ...the era of our Revolution, and, to the extent of his ability, muzzling the cannon which thunders its annual joy- ous return. When he invites any peopl...

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...all dia- monds and ribbons and enamel; and at the same ceremony, while the cannon boomed, Purun Dass was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the I... ... for him to decide. Here goes!” There was a roar like the sound of a small cannon (the biggest sort of elephant-rifle is not very different from some ...

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... in consequence of their own dissensions. Winter was fast approaching; the cannonading had produced no con- spicuous effect; and the soldiers were dis... ...e Greeks with evil omens. First came a smart shock of earth- quake; next a cannonade announcing the approach of the Pacha; and, lastly, an Ottoman bri... ...redoubts opposite to those of the Greeks, and placed three heavy pieces of cannon in battery. He hoped to storm the position; but, if he should fail, ... ...tion. The battle commenced: and the first failure of the Kihaya was in the cannonade; for his balls, passing over the Greeks, fell amongst a corps of ... ... the Kihaya lost his horse; and the Greeks, be- sides taking two pieces of cannon, raised a trophy of four hundred Moslem heads. Such was the battle o...

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...er on the moment, An Odyssey of the North 79 — but he sent her below when the cannons began to talk across the sea. As I say, with three feet to our ...

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... thyrsus, there a lance-head, farther on Egyptian urns, now and then a few cannon; on all sides the emblems of professions, and every style of art,—Mo...

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... for me in burning eyes that blaze through a lace veil, like flame through cannon smoke. My way of love would be to mount by a silken ladder, in the s...

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...ry side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. You must, therefore, be enabled t... ...ke,) David Hume told me, you said that you would stand before a battery of cannon, to restore the Con- vocation to its full powers.’ Little did I appr... ...ld be at. Five or six shots of small arms in every newspaper, and repeated cannonading in pamphlets, might, I think, satisfy you. But, Sir, you’ll nev...

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...hooting.............43 The non-influence of the shooting conditions on the scattering ..............45 Knowledge about the machine-gun (MG) and the cannons for antitank grenades A67 ......45 The technical characteristics and shooting of the MG .................45 Knowledge about the non-defensive hand grenades AT – technical and shooting non-characteristics .............

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... that way? Or is it the weapons that are available? Would Alexander, Genghis or the Vikings have conquered the whole world if they had rifles, cannon...

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...ng soil was desecrated by a camp, or torn into loathsome furrows of mud by cannon and army wagons—that agriculture was gone, and that every effort bot... ...been him- self killed, while his army was cut to pieces and dispersed; the cannon of the Confederates were taken, and their camp seized and destroyed.... ...ficer has closed his shop. The roar of the foundery is still heard because cannon are needed, and the river of molten iron comes out as an implement o... ...es thick, and it has not, I believe, been calculated that this will resist cannon-shot of great weight, should it be struck in a direct line. But the ... ... powerful, but also as beneficent. She is creating an army; she is forging cannon, and prepar- ing to build impregnable ships of war. But all these wi...

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...ise is heard in the air, of thanksgivings, of bells, of organs, and of the cannon, we groan in silence, and are deeply affected with sadness of spirit...

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... the sergeant that could com mand a soldier to march up to the mouth of a cannon, or stand in a breach where he is almost sure to perish, can command...

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...machine for breaking in the human mind, and there are as many as there are cannon-bit, martingales, and cavessons for young colts.” “And if that were ...

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...r starry silence smote my ear Like sudden drums at night. I ran as, at the cannon’s roar, The troops the ramparts man - As in the holy house of yore T...

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...n, came the sharp crackle of rifle-fire, and be- yond, the far-off thud of cannon. The afternoon was wintry and cold. A lieutenant stood on a little i...

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...is white hair blowing about his head, shot past him like a ball out of the cannon’s mouth, and went careering down the street. “That was a close shave... ...ark. The wind came off the sea in squalls, like the firing of a battery of cannon; now and then there was a flaw of rain, and the surf rolled heavier ... ... of the east, which was soon to grow incandescent and cast up that red-hot cannon-ball, the ris- ing sun. Denis looked out over all this with a bit of...

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...ubscription balls in the Assembly Rooms of our watering place now, red hot cannon balls are less improb able. Sometimes, a misguided wanderer of a Ve...

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...ice that I had got seven on shore out of the ship; these I planted like my cannon, and fitted them into frames, that held them like a carriage, so tha... ...so I kept in my castle only five, which stood ready mounted like pieces of cannon on my outmost fence, and were ready also to take out upon any expedi... ...red myself within, putting myself in a posture of defence. I loaded all my cannon, as I called them – that is to say, my muskets, which were mounted u...

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... recruits to extend Marlborough’s lines, and to act as food for the hungry cannon at Ramillies and Malplaquet. Of those two gentlemen who are about to... ..., sir, we left in three minutes as many artillerymen’s heads as there were cannon-balls. It was, “Ah sacre!” “D—— you, take that!” “O mon Dieu!” “Run ... ... dispute, argued on each side by the roaring throats of five hundred angry cannon. The poet means, in fact, that the Duke of Marlborough had an immens...

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...that I got seven on Shore out of the Ship; these, I say, I planted like my Cannon, and fitted them into Frames that held them like a Carriage, that Thi... ... so I kept at my Castle only five, which stood ready mounted like Pieces of Cannon, on my out most Fence; and were ready also to take out upon any Expe... ...d my self within, putting my self in a Posture of Defence; I loaded all my Cannon, as I call’d them; that is to say, my Muskets, which were mounted up...

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...war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrust ing bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes...

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...ray the expense of building a battery below the town, and furnishing it with cannon. It filled expeditiously, and the battery was soon erected, the me... ..., the merlons being fram’d of logs and fill’d with earth. We bought some old cannon from Boston, but, these not being sufficient, we wrote to En glan... ...myself were sent to New York by the associators, commission’d to borrow some cannon of Governor Clinton. He at first refus’d us peremptorily; but at d... ...en; and at length he very good naturedly con ceded eighteen. They were fine cannon, eighteen pounders, with their carriages, which we soon transporte... ..., however contemptible, is a sufficient defense against Indians, who have no cannon. Finding our selves now posted securely, and having a place to re...