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Example sentences for: cannons

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Moated, thickly walled, and full of cannons, drawbridges, and passageways, it is in excellent condition.
The South Magazine stored powder barrels uncomfortably close to military prisoners who were kept, with the cannons, in the Garrison Cells.
The old, rusted cannons are all that remain of the fortifications that once protected the islanders from pirates.
The British enlarged it in 1820 to defend Québec City against the Americans, but their cannons never fired a shot in anger.
By the late nineteenth century, these uses of great and small became obsolete, but to go great guns continued to allude to the loudness, forcefulness, and large size of long-ago cannons and still means to `proceed with considerable momentum, to go full steam ahead, at full bore.