Again a head shot swiftly out, and the great Lion went rolling down the hill as if he had been struck by a
cannon ball.
They have brought
cannon balls, broken ramrods, fragments of shell--iron enough to freight a sloop.
Well," said he, "I hardly know; we always liked to hear the trumpet sound, and to be called out, and were impatient to start off, though sometimes we had to stand for hours, waiting for the word of command; and when the word was given we used to spring forward as gayly and eagerly as if there were no
cannon balls, bayonets, or bullets.
Heitkamp has long fought for more federal resources to construct a new elementary school in
Cannon Ball.
They had found a
cannon ball, a cobbled surface, a variety of masonry work, pieces of medieval pottery and part of a cooking pot.
He experimented with projectiles and had success with a method that caused the
cannon ball to spin, which helped to stabilise its trajectory.
That was how Detroit Free Press writer Barbara Stanton described the lawyer taking on the Norfolk and Western Railroad in an effort to keep the Wabash
Cannon Ball train operational in 1969.
With people of the present day also linking that vision to the Dakota Access pipeline in
Cannon Ball, North Dakota, Jackson's account of the great medicine man's life, legacy, and spiritual journey is especially timely.
Protesters demonstrate near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in
Cannon Ball, N.
The Standing Rock Sioux, whose tribal lands are a half-mile south of the proposed route, say the pipeline would desecrate sacred burial and prayer sites, and could leak oil into the Missouri and
Cannon Ball rivers, on which the tribe relies for water.
The
cannon ball was found and given to us a few weeks ago," she said.
Critique: Since the era of the
Cannon Ball Run movies, transcontinental race stories have been enduringly popular.
cannon ball - a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon