"Trunnion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... stood for some locality made famous in them. I have seen Tom Pipes go climbing up the church-steeple; I have watched Strap, with the knapsack on his back, stopping to rest himself upon the wicket-gate; and I know that Commodore Trunnion held that club with Mr. Pickle, in the parlor of our little village ale-house." Every word of this personal recollection had been written down as fact, some years before it found its way into David Copperfield; the only change in the fiction being ...
— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster
... somebody ready to earn a couple of bob," said Jonah. "Besides, we can always disconnect the north-east trunnion, or jack her up and put the wheels ...
— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates
... but of the hottest. Its central point was the little brass howitzer. Driscoll, Grinders, Bledsoe, the Doc, all four pushed at the carriage or pulled at the trunnion rings, while around them, hindering them, swaying back and forth over rocks and in the ditches, the two forces battled for possession, hand to hand, with six-shooters and clubbed muskets. Grinders fell, cursing angrily. Bledsoe fell, toppling heavily his great length. The Doc fell. "By the——" ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... no doubt at all as to how young Bellairs felt. He was sitting on a trunnion, sobbing, with his head bent low ...
— Told in the East • Talbot Mundy
... Associated Words: ordnance, cannonade, cannoneer, linstock, calibre, bore, cascabel, breech, reenforce, chase, muzzle, trunnion, rimbase, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming |
