A gunner applies their Dexterity bonus to hit instead of their Int bonus with a swivel-gun. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For this gallant lieutenant, slanting toward the bows of the flying bilander, which he had no hope of fore-reaching, trained his long swivel-gun upon her, and let go — or rather tried to let go — at her. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
In half an hour the largest boat, which carried a brass swivel-gun in her bows, was stretching gracefully across the bay, with her three white sails flashing back the sunset. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Nettlebones, senior officer of the eastern division after my papa, although a very young man still, carries a swivel-gun and two bow-chasers. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Then, at a signal, the coverings were thrown off, and a rain of bullets was poured into the defenceless savages, while a swivel-gun mowed down the victims of this brutality. ❋ William Henry Johnson (N/A)
Poor fellow, he was very glad, fired his swivel-gun, and then brought up for breakfast. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
The big gunner was at the breach of his swivel-gun, ramrod in hand. ❋ Unknown (1934)
Accompanied by the two boys, he made his way along the steeply canted deck of the plunging schooner to the breach of the swivel-gun at the bow. ❋ Unknown (1934)
A port in the rail of the schooner opened and the muzzle of a small swivel-gun projected, aimed full at the launch. ❋ Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1918)
An American flag floated from the prow, and behind the flag the universal types of progress everywhere -- goods for trade and a swivel-gun. ❋ Unknown (1903)
The only reply made to the summons was to cover the little boat of the sheriff and his party with an enormous old swivel-gun, and to warn them with an oath not to advance any nearer. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Englishman was able to make out a small swivel-gun, with the gunners standing by ready to open fire as soon as the boats drew within range. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Spaniards assaulted the shed, whereupon a Dutch artilleryman trying to fire a large swivel-gun, with which he would have done great damage, being confused did not succeed, and threw down the linstock, turned, and fled. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)
[37] Also written "pederero" -- from Old Spanish _pedra_, "a stone;" so named because of the use of stone for balls, before iron balls were invented; a swivel-gun. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)
There was one who, when his companions tried to make him retire by force, because he had received a ball in his body, and a nail from a swivel-gun in his throat, tore himself from those who were carrying him, and returned to the fight, with the fury with which a wounded boar turns to avenge itself. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)
At the river there is a large swivel-gun with cross-bars, weighing thirty quintals; one cannon weighing twenty-six quintals, one sacre weighing twenty-two quintals, four half-sacres weighing thirteen or fourteen quintals, and two _esmeriles_ [a small piece of ordnance] weighing four or five quintals. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)
In addition to Watson's squadron of six vessels, four of them line-of-battle ships, and displaying the flags of two admirals, the Company's marine made a brave show of eighteen ships, large and small, carrying two hundred and fourteen guns, besides twenty fishing-boats to land troops with, each carrying a swivel-gun in the bows. ❋ Unknown (1880)
Yet musketry and swivel-gun fire from the tops were an important tactical consideration. ❋ Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 (1873)
The prau had by this time been rowed to its station, and from the stir on deck it was now evident that the brass swivel-gun was being loaded and preparations made to send a volley of missiles tearing through the stern windows. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
On a still nearer approach she fired a shell from a swivel-gun of large calibre on her forecastle, which passed within a few yards of the ship, bursting about a hundred yards to leeward. ❋ Unknown (1861)