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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

In fact, the French more or less conquered Southern California, not by the bayonet but by the corkscrew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

Consequentially, a gap in a bone might be a wound from a musket ball or a bayonet - or it might not be.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

Officers saw a bayonet and machete, which are illegal in the District of Columbia, inside the truck.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

I got up and took Father’s bayonet down from the wall over the mantlepiece.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

“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

Steel-helmeted Alpine troops carrying bayoneted rifles stood guard while Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano escorted Herren Hitler and Ribbentrop from their train to Il Duce's salon car.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next day the chaparral, in ascending the eastern rim of the basin, was, if possible, denser and more stubbornly bayoneted than ever.

From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

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

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

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

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

In front of the marquee are a field piece with bombs, cannon balls, and drum; the whole on grassy ground and superimposed on a trophy of colors and bayonetted muskets.

From American Military Insignia 1800-1851 by J. Duncan Campbell

“Yes,” said Major Sandars, entering into the joke, “I’ll give orders that every swollen serpent is to be bayonetted and opened if the doctor is missing.”

From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson