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The Spaniard is a ship of war, mounting twenty-four guns; none of them smaller than eighteens, and ten of them thirty-twos." "Impossible, Bob! We could not have been so mistaken. Joe and I were both certain that they were fourteens." "Yes, sir; but those things you saw were dummies. The guns, themselves, are almost all drawn in. All the thirty-twos are, and most of the eighteens.
A gunner was lacking for one of the great iron thirty-twos. Paul sprang from his horse, and took command of the piece. The long lines of the Rebels came into view. "Bang! bang! bang! bang!" went the guns. Then half a dozen crashed at once, the great thirty-twos thundering heavier than all the others.
Then there are the frequent thirty-twos, average "clever creatures" in this mental age, wherein no one can make an ordinary how-d'ye-do acquaintance without being advertised of his or her surprising talents: and to pass by all intermediate sizes, here and there standing by himself, in all the prickly pride of an immortal aloe, some one big pot monopolizes all the cast of earth, domineering over the conservatory as Brutus's colossal Cæsar, or his metempsychosis in a Wellington.
Do you know her, Dimchurch?” “I think she is the Lysander, sir, though I can’t be sure; there are so many of these thirty-twos.” The vessels, as they passed, exchanged broadsides. Then both tacked, but the Englishman was the quicker, and he raked the French frigate as she came round. Then they went at it hammer and tongs.
We had brass twenty-four-pounders on our quarterdeck, forecastle, poop, and main deck, brass thirty-twos on our middle deck, and brass forty-two-pounders on our lower deck. I don't think, myself, it made much difference in the weight of metal, and we were sorry to part with them.
The creek was muddy beyond comparison, and at the next hill-top I passed "Burnt Chimneys," a few dumb witnesses that pointed to heaven. A mile or two further, I came to some of the retreating regiments, and also to five of the siege thirty-twos with which Richmond was to have been bombarded.
Well, he has been on board, and brings back news that she is no trader, but a ship of war, disguised; and that she carries twenty-four guns eighteen-pounders and thirty-twos. If we met while out at sea, we might make a fight of it; but it would never do, here, especially as her two consorts would be down upon us.
Light was so plentiful, at this factory of light, that even the Hopps' barnlike home blazed with a dozen "thirty-twos." "Nothing like having a little light on the subject, Mr. Fo'ster," said Mrs. Tolley, coming out to the porch.
There were eleven in all, including the six in the chamber. "Thirty-twos," he thought, as he seized them up with his fingers. "Good for partridges and short range at men!" He said, aloud: "If we could get my rifle, Marge...." "They have taken it," she told him again. "But we shall not need it.
Gently the boat's engines held her against the flood-tide. The man had turned to add some word, when from the land side of Gaines a single columbiad roared and a huge shell screamed off into the investing entrenchments. Then some lighter guns, thirty-twos, twenty-fours, cracked and rang, and the foe replied.
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