Crossword-Solution: CANNONADE 9 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The immortal tune ended, a fine DD rolling forth from the bass-viol with the sonorousness of a cannonade, and Gabriel delayed his entry no longer.

Before the guns on the Richmond and Kingston line of hills began, there was a fitful cannonade far away in the southwest, due, I believe, to guns being fired haphazard before the black vapour could overwhelm the gunners.

May it reach us; and, if necessary, sink this cursed _Nautilus_.” “Friend Ned,” replied Conseil, “what harm can it do to the _Nautilus?_ Can it attack it beneath the waves? Can its cannonade us at the bottom of the sea?” “Tell me, Ned,” said I, “can you recognise what country she belongs to?” The Canadian knitted his eyebrows, dropped his eyelids, and screwed up the corners of his eyes, and for a few moments fixed a piercing look upon the vessel.

The fortifications of Elvas are models of their kind, and, at the first view, it would seem that the town, if well garrisoned, might bid defiance to any hostile power; but it has its weak point: the western side is commanded by a hill, at the distance of half a mile, from which an experienced general would cannonade it, and probably with success.

The Director-in-chief desired to determine the effect of an active cannonade upon the new armour, and therefore ordered the vessel placed in such a position that the Englishman might have the best opportunity for using it as a target.