1 At that moment in one of the intervals of profound darkness, following the flashes, a voice was heard at his side; and almost at the same instant a volley of thunder peals rolled overhead.
2 Whereupon Victor administered a rebuke in the form of a volley of abuse, which, owing to its rapidity and incoherence, was all but incomprehensible to Edna.
3 A volley from the Hurons interrupted the discourse, and as the bullets whistled about them, Duncan saw the head of Uncas turned, looking back at himself and Munro.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 4 A shout arose from the Hurons, who seized the opportunity to fire another volley.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 5 The savages answered the insult with a yell, and immediately another volley succeeded.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 6 The lieutenant of the youth's company had encountered a soldier who had fled screaming at the first volley of his comrades.
7 These troops had apparently been going forward with caution, their rifles held in readiness, when the youthful lieutenant had discovered them and their movement had been interrupted by the volley from the blue regiment.
8 He strained his vision to learn the accomplishment of the volley, but the smoke hung before him.
9 There was an instant of strained silence before they threw up their rifles and fired a plumping volley at the foes.
10 The swirling body of blue men came to a sudden halt at close and disastrous range and roared a swift volley.
11 Tottering among them was the rival color bearer, whom the youth saw had been bitten vitally by the bullets of the last formidable volley.
12 This ill-timed defiance might have procured for De Bracy a volley of arrows, but for the hasty and imperative interference of the outlaw Chief.
13 The hump-backed man stared, as if in excess of amazement and indignation; then, twisting himself, dexterously, from the doctor's grasp, growled forth a volley of horrid oaths, and retired into the house.
14 There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY 15 The old reprobate with the surplice burst into a volley of bad language.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST