Hardly had he given the signal, than smoke was seen rising from the huts, gathering in dense volumes, and, lo, from four different points simultaneously, bright flames broke forth, and as the whole huge kraal, now one vast sheet of leaping, devouring fire, gave forth in uninterrupted salvo its heavy crackling roar, there went up from the ranks of the king's warriors, mustering in crescent formation to watch the completion of their errand of retribution, the thunder of a fierce war-song of victory and exultation.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
The guns will speak again to-night, saluting by the same kind of sullen salvo the first day of the last year of war.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Boone joined in the salvo of laughter that went up at that sally, but the mirth died suddenly from his face the next moment, for the applause had gone to Blair's head like liquor and fired him to a more philippic vein of oratory.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck