Driscoll, Grinders, Bledsoe, the Doc, all four pushed at the carriage or pulled at the Trunnion rings, while around them, hindering them, swaying back and forth over rocks and in the ditches, the two forces battled for possession, hand to hand, with six-shooters and clubbed muskets.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
These, no doubt, are grave drawbacks: but the racy fun of the book almost atones for them: and the exaltation of the naval element of Roderick which one finds here in Trunnion and Hatchway and Pipes carries the balance quite to the other side.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Commodore Trunnion, or Uncle Toby, or one of that sort.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes