All our batteries were hard at work, heavy howitzers with broad blunt snouts, long-muzzled long-ranged 60-pounders, and farther forward, on the landscape of the battlefield, field-guns drumming out Salvos with staccato knocks above the full deep blasts of the monsters behind them.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
By a wise precaution no Salvos were fired until the royal party was safely passed, for experience had shown that, though only two or three horses might be frightened, yet they were sufficient to cause unseemly disturbance.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
Both Charles and James put to sea to meet her; but, owing to stormy weather, their boat was driven back, and the Queen's first welcome was the joyous Salvos of Dover which answered the thunder of the guns of Calais.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes