In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
In 1880 he took his first trip on a steamship, the Agn, as a machinist, the boat having been bought from the celebrated whalefisher, Sven Fyen, as an express boat in Varanger fjord.
The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.
The Greek Orthodox population of the 62 bishoprics in 1886 numbered 65,549,096. to which the Orthodoxes of the army and navy must be added.
