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  • noun Plural form of bayonet.

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Examples

  • Remind me to tell you the one about the house renovations, the possum, me, dad, Vernon and the world war one sword bayonets some time...

    Look what I found under a car... StyleyGeek 2007

  • In an effort to please his ultramontane Catholicsubjects, Louis-Napoleon dispatched French troops to the Eternal City, and by their bayonets was the temporal jurisdictionof the Pope, Pius IX, supported.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • In an effort to please his ultramontane Catholicsubjects, Louis-Napoleon dispatched French troops to the Eternal City, and by their bayonets was the temporal jurisdictionof the Pope, Pius IX, supported.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • In an effort to please his ultramontane Catholicsubjects, Louis-Napoleon dispatched French troops to the Eternal City, and by their bayonets was the temporal jurisdictionof the Pope, Pius IX, supported.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • In an effort to please his ultramontane Catholicsubjects, Louis-Napoleon dispatched French troops to the Eternal City, and by their bayonets was the temporal jurisdictionof the Pope, Pius IX, supported.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • In an effort to please his ultramontane Catholicsubjects, Louis-Napoleon dispatched French troops to the Eternal City, and by their bayonets was the temporal jurisdictionof the Pope, Pius IX, supported.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The row upon row of cutlasses, sword bayonets, and muskets on the shelves above him glittered coldly in the lantern light.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Maybe three rifles fired, but the rest of the men kept charging to take their sword bayonets to an enemy that could not stand against an attack from front and back.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • The Frenchman screamed as he was pulled down the hill to where three sword bayonets chopped at him, and then Vicente's Portuguese, realizing they could not shoot the French, began hurling rocks at them and the big stones drew blood, made men flinch, and Sharpe bellowed at his Riflemen to close with the enemy.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • They took the long sword bayonets from their scabbards and slotted them onto the rifle muzzles.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

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