Do you, Senhor Albuquerque," he said, turning to a young officer who was standing near him, "exercise your skill in gunnery on yonder pirate: a young eye and eager hand may throw a shot when a more practised man may miss his aim."
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
The youth, the superb training, the skill of Gordon became like the sledge-hammer pounding of superior gunnery in warfare.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum
The great, gloomy-looking castle of Kronborg, which has stood sentinel here for three centuries, would require two thousand men and more to defend it in time of war, but modern gunnery has rendered it, for all offensive purposes, of no account.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou