Fired

Examples

• He fired on it and he could hear the spang against the steel. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The gypsy aimed carefully and fired and as he jerked the bolt back and ejected the shell Robert Jordan said, Over. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Artillery were out of the question: they were fired now and then, only to show that they had them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• For answer the girl raised her revolver and fired point-blank at him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• These guns for the most part were so heavy that they had to be rested on some object to be fired. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• For a gun is fired close by. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Raising their rifles they fired into the underbrush in the direction from which the missiles had come. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Its great advantage is the large number of shots that may be fired in a short space of time without an excessive weight in the gun itself. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The boilers were fired by wood, as the economical transportation of coal was a physical impossibility. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We had not gone far when three cannon were fired ahead of us with a sound that seemed to burst something inside my ear. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In the strength of his misfortune, and the energy of his distress, he fired for the moment like a proud man. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• All large displays of fireworks are now fired by electricity and every known color and effect is produced by the pyrotechnist of the present day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The body is brought and the pyre fired, and then for ten days the warriors built a mighty mound to be seen afar by the traveller on sea or land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I opened up my holster, took the pistol, aimed at the one who had talked the most, and fired. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The blacks have fired the temple, he cried. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I fired at him through the hedge as he ran across the field. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• One of them fired a shot, the other dropped, and the murderer rushed across the garden and over the hedge. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Fancy that he fired in the air, and you've fought a duel, Giles. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Shots were fired on both sides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If the shot fired at Fort Sumter was heard around the world, the call of the President for 75,000 men was heard throughout the Northern States. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And they fired warning of him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In fact, four hundred of my fleet of five hundred rested safely upon the bosom of Omean before the first shot was fired. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I do not remember that a single shot was fired. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I wonder that he was not fired upon, but I believe he was not; at all events he was not hurt. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Neither he nor I nor any one in either command heard a gun that was fired upon the battle-field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Another of our parties had been fired on from an ambush and then attacked in the open day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• When Sumter was fired upon and the integrity of the Union threatened, there was no man more ready to serve his country than he. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On entering the city the troops were fired upon by the released convicts, and possibly by deserters and hostile citizens. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was sure we could have gotten through to the south if they had not fired on us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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