There they are whacking away at each other,
great guns going, shells exploding, magazines bursting, ironwork flying about like straw in a gale, all we've been dreaming of for years!
To say that she is flung down on her side in the waves, with her masts dipping into them, and that, springing up again, she rolls over on the other side, until a heavy sea strikes her with the noise of a hundred
great guns, and hurls her back - that she stops, and staggers, and shivers, as though stunned, and then, with a violent throbbing at her heart, darts onward like a monster goaded into madness, to be beaten down, and battered, and crushed, and leaped on by the angry sea - that thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, and wind, are all in fierce contention for the mastery - that every plank has its groan, every nail its shriek, and every drop of water in the great ocean its howling voice - is nothing.
"I suppose the Lord Chancellor, and the Vice Chancellors, and the whole Chancery battery of
great guns would be infinitely astonished by such unreason and injustice in one of their suitors," pursued my guardian.
You would almost think a
great gun had been discharged; and if you noticed the light wreath of vapor from the spiracle at his other extremity, you would think that that was the smoke from the touch-hole.
It will all be as it was when I first spoke to thee under Zam-Zammah the
great gun -'
Some miles from the fort we met a man, who told us that a
great gun had been fired, which is a signal that Indians are near.
By the time the great inventor died, his
great guns were weighing in at 110 tons (imperial).
I came across a young lady who started up her homemade cake and sandwich business just over 12 months ago and she is going
great guns to build up a bigger business in the future.
And I have to say that throughout my time with Saints, we've often found travelling to Hull KR particularly tricky, even when we were going
great guns.
Top foodies including Hemsley sister Melissa and Bake Off chef Chetna Makan tucked into TV chef John Gregory-Smith's delicious new Moroccan menu at London's
Great Guns Social.
Since rocketing to number one three years ago with the anthemic Feel The Love, Rudimental have been going
great guns, with a well received set at Glastonbury one of the highlights of their 2015.
They are going
great guns so come on Dandies, at least try to enjoy it.
Palawan is going
great guns because everyone is involvedthe government, the local government units, nongovernment organizations, the military and the people themselvesthe presence of the New People's Army notwithstanding.
Perhaps those
great guns come from pulling all those pints in the Rovers Return?