mitrailleuse

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His anxiety is most apparent on La Mitrailleuse - a stark, foreboding composition where McCluskey intones the phrase "bend your body to the will of the machine" over a rhythm track constructed from machine gun fire.

From BBC

It was inspired by a trip to the Imperial War Museum, where the musician came across a painting - also called La Mitrailleuse - by Christopher Nevinson.

From BBC

This victory was very pluckily gained by Chief Bob Manuel and his people, who were greatly assisted in the defence of their position by having been supplied at an opportune moment with a mitrailleuse by one of the European traders in the New Calabar river.

From Project Gutenberg

It will already have been seen that the method of this Reply is not to argue seriously from point to point, but to set out in masses, without the labor of proof, crowds of imputations, which may overwhelm an opponent like balls from a mitrailleuse.

From Project Gutenberg

So I do,–but only that I may go off with a bang by and by, � la mitrailleuse.

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