1. I landed in a ward with other kids of my age, or rather, just six months older than me, but they had been shot at by German artillery and the Luftwaffe.
2. Happy the blest ages that knew not the dread fury of those devilish engines of artillery, whose inventor I am persuaded is in hell receiving the reward of his diabolical invention, by which he made it easy for a base and cowardly arm to take the life of a gallant gentleman and that, when he knows not how or whence, in the height of the ardour and enthusiasm that fire and animate brave hearts, there should come some random bullet, discharged perhaps by one who fled in terror at the flash when he fired off his accursed machine, which in an instant puts an end to the projects and cuts off the life of one who deserved to live for ages to come.
3. He made his way to the artillery tent near the training grounds to test out the latest in enchanted weapons.
4. Also along the coast we sighted huge artillery guns, mounted on concrete bunkers and pointed to the sea.
5. Artillery fire rattled the buildings and sent white tracers arching through the sky.
6. Just as Antoine said, there was a warehouse and on top sat a heavy artillery gun pointed toward the sky.
7. On top of that warehouse was the same artillery gun that shot my brother from the sky.
8. ACK-ACK-ACK, ACK-ACK-ACK, came the racket of artillery shells exploding in the sky.
9. Then she rolled off the bed, stumbled, and rushed out of the room as if from artillery fire.
10. Batteries were already thrown up in their front, and even while the spectators above them were looking down, with such different emotions, on a scene which lay like a map beneath their feet, the roar of artillery rose from the valley, and passed off in thundering echoes along the eastern hills.