What is "artillerist"

Usage examples of "artillerist".

I spoke at once upon the impulse of the moment, with a sense of reckless desperation not unlike that with which an artillerist fires the train whose explosion may win for him the obsidional wreath or blow him into atoms.

With one of his customary sighs, a helpless expression that he thought he seemed to be making far too often these days, the portly master moved off to find the errant artillerist, taking with him a second-year student to replace the man.

Markwart said loudly, drawing all of those nearby, including the returning Master Jojonah and the errant artillerist, into the conversation.

IV And how stands she, artillerist, Among the vapours waxing dense, With cannon charged?

Besides Cronje, Wolverans of the Transvaal, and the German artillerist Albrecht, with forty-four other field-cornets and commandants, fell into our hands.

Janaki glanced at the guns, then arched an eyebrow at the artillerist, and Mesaion shrugged.

He was an artillerist, you know, and he always prepared his attacks with a massed bombardment.

We sent word to our faithful artillerists, who trained the gun upon the house.

I turned from watching the Rebel artillerists, whose intentions gave me more uneasiness than anything else, and looked in the direction indicated by the speaker.

When it was evident the artillerists were about to fire, anxiety induced her to break silence.

This movement caused the artillerists to suspend their own, and the lugger had fairly come within a mile of the cliffs, ere she lazily turned aside again, and shaped her course once more in the direction of the entrance of the Canal.

The preparations to show the ensign, which caught the quick and understanding glance of Ghita, and which had not escaped even the duller vision of the artillerists, were made at the outer end of this jigger-yard, A boy appeared on the taffrail, and he was evidently clearing the ensign-halyards for that purpose.

The colonello, here, expects some firing, and has his artillerists already at their guns.

A boat presents so small an object, however, to artillerists as little skilled as seamen generally are, who depend more on general calculations than on the direct or scientific aim, the latter being usually defeated by the motion of their vessels, that he was unwilling to throw away even his canister.

About daybreak the artillerists stopped once more, this time to feed their horses, then continued on.