| 1. | "I have thought of that," said I, for I made sure he was thinking of a bombardment of the fort. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 2. | Where the operation of bombardment should fail, I would contrive catapults, mangonels, _trabocchi_ and other machines of marvellous efficacy and not in common use. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 3. | In Smolensk, at the Malakhov Gate, he had hardly dozed off in a paroxysm of fever before he was awakened by the bombardment of the town--and Smolensk held out all day long. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |