What is "artilleryman"

Usage examples of "artilleryman".

About a mile up the road we came across our artilleryman sitting very stiffly on the edge of a culvert with a greasy handkerchief on his knees.

At one point, though, an artilleryman told the story of a fine house in his town, where the cries of a ghostly child echoed in the rooms at night, to the consternation of the householders.

Cathelineau has appointed him to the post, as it needs an artilleryman to load and point the guns.

Leaving Andre and his two followers, he went quietly up the slope, to assure himself that the artilleryman was still there.

He found, however, that the artilleryman was still asleep, and returned to Andre.

The case was as follows: There was an artilleryman in Manila, named Francisco de Nava, who had a female slave with whom he had illicit communication, as came to the ears of the archbishop.

The artilleryman was very angry and vexed at that, and his love drew him so powerfully that he said that he wished to marry the slave-girl.

The sentence was executed, and the artilleryman was hanged on the same spot where he had killed the slave-girl.

The artilleryman paused for a brief moment, and then called for his men to hold.

British artilleryman would dare fire now for fear of hitting the assaulting troops.

Himself trained as an artilleryman, he had served as a young officer on the staff of Crown Prince Rupprecht in the First World War.

Every now and then a nervous artilleryman fired a shell from the Yankee lines, and the round would thump into the trampled corn and explode.

Galloway told the artilleryman, then spurred on into a town crammed with confused soldiery.

I trust it will not be forgotten, that twenty-five pieces of heavy ordnance have been dragged to the different batteries, mounted, and, all but three, fought by seamen, except one artilleryman to point the guns.

I open the door, and push the big fair artilleryman into the room where his brother has just died.