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Ahlers had arrived early and made more than 100 snowballs, all stacked in neat cannon-shot pyramids along the rim of the fountain.

Shades of 'Snowmageddon': Dozens turn Dupont Circle into snowball battleground Steve Hendrix 2011

I don't know whether they're perforating ulcers, or cancers, or cannon-shot wounds, or what not.

CHAPTER XIII 2010

Ahlers had arrived early and made more than 100 snowballs, all stacked in neat cannon-shot pyramids along the rim of the fountain.

Shades of 'Snowmageddon': Dozens turn Dupont Circle into snowball battleground Steve Hendrix 2011

For now, although I couldn't guess it, as I lay pampering myself with a little preserved jellied chicken and Rhine wine - of which Willy's store-chest yielded a fine abundance - that terrible day was approaching, that awful thunderclap of a day when the world turned upside down in a welter of powder-smoke and cannon-shot and steel, which no one who lived through it will ever forget.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

And with each cannon-shot, Theophania's cry screamed out over the bloody concrete, the lymph-stained rails where all carriage traffic was banned.

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

And with each cannon-shot, Theophania's cry screamed out over the bloody concrete, the lymph-stained rails where all carriage traffic was banned.

Catherynne M. Valente's Palimpest: An Exclusive Excerpt Omnivoracious 2009

I wonder how many of those 15 triples were cannon-shot line drives which caromed off the Green Monster at unpredictable angles.

Fiction and the empirical turn 2009

After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont – Saint-Jean remained deserted.

Les Miserables 2008

Beyond the island, they anchored at the place the Indians called Kebec, an Algonquian word that meant the narrowing of the river, less than a cannon-shot wide.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Beyond the island, they anchored at the place the Indians called Kebec, an Algonquian word that meant the narrowing of the river, less than a cannon-shot wide.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008