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
In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
By 1962, when a photo was taken of the statue, the bayonet affixed to the rifle was gone.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022
The officers pulled him over on the 500 block of South Capitol Street SW and saw a bayonet and machete inside his truck.
From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2021
They haven’t seen the gold lace on the generals, those muskets—all so alike, and everyone has a bayonet.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
Vocabulary lists containing bayonet
The American Civil War
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Prisoner B-3087
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"Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell
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