bayonet
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Miller “soon put the enemy to flight at the point of a bayonet, capturing their colors and most of their arms,” Mr. Hemming writes, quoting Cochrane’s 1859 autobiography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Consequentially, a gap in a bone might be a wound from a musket ball or a bayonet - or it might not be.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
The bayonet had to go, perhaps, because there had been complaints that the statue “should carry a wreath instead of a rifle,” said a Seattle Times story in Oct.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
He’d been full of spit and vinegar about the bayonet the army had given him.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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“My father thinks that the reason he didn’t speak about it was the fact that he was bayoneted and gassed and it left such a horrible impression upon him.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
One of his biggest regrets, besides being bayoneted, “was in the excitement I had run out of film in my camera,” Norlander said.
From Washington Times ● May 16, 2020
By that time the First was getting hard: men moved easily and quickly under their 40-lb. combat packs, 240 rounds of ammunition, bayoneted rifles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The snap and ring of a bayoneted rifle coming to the charge, the stern voice of a sentry at the crossing of the Calle Faura, brought him to his senses.
From Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila by King, Charles
They carry muskets, but they’re not shooting or bayoneting.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2016
For the cynics on here this guy has just lost his wife, I think your bayoneting the wounded, what must it be for him to read rotten comments at this time in his life.
From BBC ● May 30, 2015
After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As the Emperor of the East had all the gold, the Government Bank only protected itself from failure by bayoneting its creditors.
From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Through Red Square pranced hundreds of hardy steeds, their riders dressed like Cossacks and waving long, bayonetted rifles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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U. S. Colonel Albert G. Love: In the World War, 65.9% of 224,000 U. S. wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These soldiers all wore the same stern, tense expressions and handled their bayonetted rifles nervously, as if they were in the camp of the enemy.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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In front of the marquee are a field piece with bombs, cannon balls, and drum; the whole on grassy ground and superimposed on a trophy of colors and bayonetted muskets.
From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by Campbell, J. Duncan
I believe under Providence, that the ludicrousness of this attack saved us from being bayonetted on the spot.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various
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