bayonet
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Miller “soon put the enemy to flight at the point of a bayonet, capturing their colors and most of their arms,” Mr. Hemming writes, quoting Cochrane’s 1859 autobiography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
No one wants to support a movie at the point of a bayonet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
By 1962, when a photo was taken of the statue, the bayonet affixed to the rifle was gone.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
The officers pulled him over on the 500 block of South Capitol Street SW and saw a bayonet and machete inside his truck.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
Finally he picked up the Hessian’s musket and bayonet and put it over his shoulder.
From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
“My father thinks that the reason he didn’t speak about it was the fact that he was bayoneted and gassed and it left such a horrible impression upon him.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
One of his biggest regrets, besides being bayoneted, “was in the excitement I had run out of film in my camera,” Norlander said.
From Washington Times ● May 16, 2020
The Soochow gates stood wide open and the Chinese forces marched in and stacked their bayoneted rifles, whereupon fifteen Japanese followed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A yawning sentry leaned on a bayoneted rifle; 17 soldiers slept.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It might have been useful for a military man, especially one who had to handle a bayoneted musket; but it was a fatal invasion of the principle of beauty to adopt a permanent cock.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
They carry muskets, but they’re not shooting or bayoneting.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2016
For the cynics on here this guy has just lost his wife, I think your bayoneting the wounded, what must it be for him to read rotten comments at this time in his life.
From BBC ● May 30, 2015
After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant-garde painters.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As the Emperor of the East had all the gold, the Government Bank only protected itself from failure by bayoneting its creditors.
From The Voyage of Captain Popanilla by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Through Red Square pranced hundreds of hardy steeds, their riders dressed like Cossacks and waving long, bayonetted rifles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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U. S. Colonel Albert G. Love: In the World War, 65.9% of 224,000 U. S. wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These soldiers all wore the same stern, tense expressions and handled their bayonetted rifles nervously, as if they were in the camp of the enemy.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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Chinese soldiers with bayonetted guns stood guard at every railway station between Shanhaikwan and Mukden, and from Chinchowfu our coach was occupied by some Chinese official with guests and military attendants, including armed soldiers.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King
A marine stood at the plank, bayonetted musket on shoulder, and close behind him an officer.
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford
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