Bayonets
[beɪənɪts]
Examples
- Hand-to-hand again, said Dick, as the Melnosians began to use their bayonets, but they won't get over the barricade this time. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They had, therefore, to meet the shock standing or kneeling behind a bristling wall of pikes or bayonets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We answer strikes with bayonets, and make treason one of the rights of man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Loaves stuck on the points of bayonets, green boughs stuck in gun-barrels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Talleyrand said that a government could do everything with bayonets except sit on them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hatchets, knives, bayonets, swords, all brought to be sharpened, were all red with it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Their bayonets and spearheads glistened in the sunlight formidably. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Edited by Leopold