grenades

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Researchers have observed sonic muscles or have recorded sounds from five families of deep-sea fish, including grenadiers and sablefish, according to Marta Bolgan, a marine biologist at the University of Liege in Belgium.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2020

But miniature painting outlived for a while the destruction of the Mughal court, to die a slow death at the hands, not of sepoys or vengeful grenadiers, but of photographers.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

Haiti's black slave revolutionaries, who wrung independence for their nation from Napoleon's grenadiers in 1804, quickly overran the eastern, Spanish part of the island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2010

Molinari and his grenadiers had already splashed grandiloquently through the halls and plazas of most of Latin America.

From Time Magazine Archive

At our head marched our fine grenadiers in their brave red coats, their bearskin shakoes.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson