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
He was invited by HBO to snoop around sets in New York and earmark items — say, the bayonet sword hanging on the wall of Logan Roy’s office — that should be set aside.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 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
Father kept the bayonet hanging over the mantelpiece.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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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
The Soochow gates stood wide open and the Chinese forces marched in and stacked their bayoneted rifles, whereupon fifteen Japanese followed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Two sentries in the uniform of the 1st Regiment of Cuirassiers were guarding the door: their bayoneted rifles came up to the present, the Colonel answered the salute, and they dropped to attention.
From The World Peril of 1910 by Griffith, George Chetwynd
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
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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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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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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Here and there stood Red Guards and sailors, with bayonetted rifles, each one surrounded by about a hundred men and women-clerks, students, shopkeepers, tchinovniki-shaking their fists and bawling insults and menaces.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John
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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