1 A second and a third cannon ball flew past.
2 Nesvitski realized that it was a cannon ball.
3 A cannon ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse.
4 Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces of the cannon.
5 Here he dismounted, and stopped beside the farthest of the four unlimbered cannon.
6 In this action for the first time trophies were taken: banners, cannon, and two enemy generals.
7 Prince Andrew took out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the position.
8 "Yes, yes," muttered Bagration as if considering something, and he rode past the limbers to the farthest cannon.
9 He imagined himself as an enormously tall, powerful man who was throwing cannon balls at the French with both hands.
10 A cannon ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagration and his suite, and fell into the column to the measure of "Left."
11 On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron.
12 To the left, not far from the farthest cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the sound of officers' voices in eager conversation.
13 But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon confronted one another as before.
14 A huge, broad-shouldered gunner, Number One, holding a mop, his legs far apart, sprang to the wheel; while Number Two with a trembling hand placed a charge in the cannon's mouth.
15 On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen.
16 Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot.
17 Just then there was a whistle in the air; nearer and nearer, faster and louder, louder and faster, a cannon ball, as if it had not finished saying what was necessary, thudded into the ground near the shed with super human force, throwing up a mass of earth.
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