minute gun

That must be the secretary letting off his minute guns.

In any case I shall hail every so often, like a minute gun, to help them.

On the day of his burial, Kewanee paid tribute by firing a 36 minute gun salute.

The ten minute gun, the five minute gun and they were off.

The Admiral's vessel had fired during the procession twenty-five minute guns from time to time.

In a twenty minute gun battle, Petrel's hull was holed and she began sinking.

At quarter to noon, the fifteen minute gun went off on the Royal Navy ship that served as committee boat.

A detail from Post Seward fired minute guns during the march and the ceremonies at the grave.

It is a fetter dance to the music of minute guns - not at sea, but in a region not a thousand miles from the Sahara.

letting those exclamations off like minute guns.

As well as 2 KIA the kiwis suffered 6 wounded in the 3 minute gun battle.

The recognized manner of signaling disaster at sea was by the firing of minute guns, carried on all ships for signalling purposes.

She was forced to strike after a fierce two hour and five minute gun duel, during most of which she had been engaged with Macdonough's flagship.

In the North, large memorial meetings took place, church bells rang, minute guns were fired, and famous writers such as Emerson and Thoreau joined many Northerners in praising Brown.

Cannon at the La Cabaña fortress fired every 30 minutes from 10:00 A.M. until 2:15 PM, after which "minute guns" sounded every 60 seconds until the procession passed.

Forty-five minute guns, corresponding with the years of age of the deceased, to be held in readiness to be fired during the funeral procession, and to be commenced by signal from the Government-house.

Unfortunately, it had become the custom in the islands to fire a minute gun as your ship passed safely through the area, and so the firing of the Schiller's guns failed to produce hoped for rescue.

Another minute and it uttered his name again; and then, like a minute gun, "Ransom . . . Ransom . . . Ransom," perhaps a hundred times.

The U.S. Military Academy Band and a Detachment of Field Music furnished music and a detachment of field artillery fired eleven minute guns as the cortege left the chapel.

The lad panted out these phrases, one after another, like minute guns; but at the last word, which rang in that stately chamber like an oath, his heart failed him utterly; and the dreaded silence settled on father and son.

President Gomez ordered all flags in the city to fly at half-mast and the minute guns at La Cabaña and Morro Castle to fire every 30 seconds every day that dead were brought to the surface.

As soon as the train emerged from the tunnel in the eastern limits of the city, "minute guns" were fired and the bells of the Syracuse City Hall and all the churches "tolled in requiem."

"We passed along Baltimore Street to the Emmittsburg Road, minute guns being fired, then by way of the Taneytown Road to the cemetery, where the military formed in line to salute the President at about eleven o'clock.

The church bells continued to toll and the minute guns continued to fire until the remains of the President were borne outside the city and headed west through village of Jordan on the way to the funeral in Springfield, Illinois.

Sir James Edward Alexander estimated that 10,000 lined the street as minute guns sounded from Saint Helen's Island to mark the movement of the cortege to the military burying ground on Victoria Road (now Rue Papineau)".