Pitched Percussion

Famous quotes containing the words pitched and/or percussion:

“Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, many of them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ... but the power of the gun was fully as great as represented. The ball at one-fourth mile passed through the largest rails; at one-half mile almost the same.... I think it an excellent arm.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)