granadoes

"granadoes" recently stored at Gresham College and elsewhere in the city, which had caused strange apprehensions among the inhabitants.

London and the Kingdom - Volume II

In each top was an arm chest containing Spanish darts, crossbows, longbows, arrows, bolts, and perhaps granadoes.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

They had also an infinity of subtle fireworks, granadoes and the like, with which to set their opponents on fire.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

This they found well provided with men, cannon, and ammunition, they having no other arms than muskets, and a few hand granadoes: their own artillery they thought incapable, for its smallness, of making any considerable breach in the walls.

The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main George Alfred Williams 1903

I sent away the great guns, the granadoes, fireworks, and ammunition, whereof there was good store in the fort.

Vanishing England 1892

The men got stooles and ladders to the windowes, where they stood safe, cast in granadoes, and fired them out of the church.

The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

Castle, not more than four miles north of Ruerdean; for his supplies would be drawn chiefly from the Forest, as indeed appears from a letter dated 4th July, 1646, in which he says, "We have supplies of shells for our granadoes from the Forest of Dean."

The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

And now, I beseech you, consider with yourselves; (for it is no slight matter that I am treating of;) I say, consider what you ought to judge of those insolent, unaccountable boasts of conscience, which, like so many fireballs or mouth-granadoes, as I may so term them, are every day thrown at our church.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II. 1634-1716 1823

I say, if the rout be still followed and plied by them with such mouth granadoes as these, can any thing be expected, but that those who look no further than words should take such incendiaries at their word, and thereupon presently kindle and flame out, and throw the whole frame of the government into tumult and confusion?

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

One of the MS. journals states, [47] "The little ladyes had stomack to digest cannon; but the stoutest souldiers had noe hearts for granadoes, and might not they att once free themselves from the continual expectac'on of death?"

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821