They suffered cruelly under the scattered fusillades, yet were not materially resisted.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
There were "demonstrations," as we call them now; there were crowds; there were processions; there were tumults; there were disturbances, riots, reading of Riot Acts, dispersion of mobs, charges of cavalry, fusillades of infantry; but there were no great public meetings called together for the discussion of momentous political questions.
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
The massacre along the boulevards was only a part; it was followed by the summary fusillades, the secret executions.
"Napoleon the Little"
Victor Hugo