The big guns

Usage examples of cannons.

I will fight the Lissens without cannons and you will be weaker than you are now, with no navy.

They were the old-fashioned shot-firing cannons, but they were still effective.

As she drew nearer, her outline gained definition and her twin port flame cannons glowed.

She ran to the starboard rail where the cannons waited, because she had been trained on the guns and could take up the task if a cannoneer fell.

The powerful heat from the cannons had singed her hands and skin, raising a red welt on the left side of her face.

Shii studied her black decks and spiked hull and the flame cannons poking out from her gun deck.

We have to draw him into a shallow fight, surround him with cannons with no way out.

Similar ones stood on the outskirts of the capital, armed with flame cannons to repel assaults.

As for the cannons, they would have to be cannibalized from some of the schooners, a risky move since Nicabar would no doubt arrive with escort ships.

We will get the cannons in place, and the blockade of rocks into the river.

And arms were another speciality of the duke, who had already purchased cannons and shot from Doria.

She was on the east side of the river, and from her place among the rocks and bramble she could barely detect the cannons on the opposite cliff.

Hidden behind leaves and camouflaged with branches, the cannons would be invisible from the river below.

It was a bright afternoon, and she worried that the sun might glint off their cannons, exposing them.

The big dreadnought still had her flame cannons ready, searching the hills for targets.