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
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
By 1962, when a photo was taken of the statue, the bayonet affixed to the rifle was gone.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
I figured they might be able to guess who’d thrown that bayonet into the stockade, but nobody would be able to prove anything.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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“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
By that time the First was getting hard: men moved easily and quickly under their 40-lb. combat packs, 240 rounds of ammunition, bayoneted rifles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Two sentries in the uniform of the 1st Regiment of Cuirassiers were guarding the door: their bayoneted rifles came up to the present, the Colonel answered the salute, and they dropped to attention.
From The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith
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
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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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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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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He stood before the Council, a fair-haired young man, clad in the same fashion of trim black uniform as the bayonetted soldier had worn upstairs three nights before.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
“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
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