[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That volleys, in senses of the verb.
(a) 1796. Coleridge, Destiny of Nations, v. 53. Some drive the mutinous clouds to clash in air, And … Yoke the red lightning to their volleying car.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, IV. ii. When the volleying musket play’d Against the bloody Highland blade.
1849. Jas. Grant, Kirkaldy of Gr., xxvi. 301. The booming cannon, the volleying harquebusses.
1852. Tennyson, Ode Wellington, 62. Let … the volleying cannon thunder his loss.
(b) 1816. Byron, Siege Corinth, ii. There the volleying thunders pour, Till waves grow smoother to the roar. Ibid. (1822), Juan, VIII. vi. The volleying roar, and loud Long booming of each peal on peal, o’ercame The ear far more than thunder.
1894. Outing (U.S.), XXIV. 50/2. The volleying boom of giant trees, uprooted from their rocky foundations, sounded above the shriek of the wind.
(c) 1844. Hood, Forge, I. 170. The Forge … With volleying smoke, and many a spark, Vomiting fire.
1866. M. Arnold, Thyrsis, vi. So have I heard the cookoo’s parting cry,… Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze.
