Usage examples for howitzer
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A
great
howitzer
near
the
road
lifts
its
huge
muzzle
slowly,
fires
and
goes
down
again,
and
lifts
again
and
fires.
– Tales of War by Lord Dunsany
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The
field
artillery
carries
batteries
of
cannon
and
light
howitzer,
and
the
drivers
are
armed
with
a
sword
and
revolver.
– Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
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With
a
howitzer
taken
for
the
occasion,
it
was
intended
to
have
blown
this
gate
open,
and
to
have
taken
the
place
by
storm;
but
on
reaching
it
while
the
ranks
opened,
and
the
men
sought
to
surround
the
castle
to
seek
for
some
other
entrance
at
the
same
time,
they
were
picked
off
so
rapidly
and
unexpectedly
from
the
loop
holes
above,
that
a
general
flight
took
place,
the
howitzer
was
abandoned,
even
before
it
had
been
fired,
and
both
the
officers
and
the
troops
sought
shelter
by
lying
down
behind
the
ridges
of
sand
and
little
hillocks
immediately
underneath
the
castle
walls.
– The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms