Примеры употребления для cannon ball
1. The true recipe for plum pudding, she complained, was to "take a pound of every indigestible substance you can think of, boil into a cannon–ball, and serve in flaming brandy." But by the 1880s, moderation and thrift fought an uphill battle against the appetite for seductive products, colorfully advertised and often sold on credit.
2. "The play is played out by boys with that dogged determination to win, that endurance of pain, that bravery of combative spirit, by which the adult is trained to face the cannon–ball with equal alacrity." The problems arose when the boys from different schools went to Oxford and Cambridge, wanted to continue to play football and found that because different schools followed different rules, all hell broke loose.