48 Metaphors for guns

Their only hope, his only hope of life, lay in stopping the attack before it reached the trench; and the machine-guns were a main factor in the stopping.

The guns and the pistols were all flint-locks, for at this time matchlock and wheel-lock had about gone out of use.

He waited a few moments to see his orders executed, but the gun was not "wah-kun" enough to fire by order alone.

"A gun is mo' dange'ous ter de man in front of it dan ter de man behin' it.

Even those cork-screwed, hand-made guns was a miracle to them.

Mark did'nt take his rifle with him, thinkin' of course that he would see no game on the ice worth shootin', and a gun would only be an incumbrance to him.

A second gun is the signal for starting; the keepers loose their hold, and off go the horses.

The gun was a long, double-barrel, muzzle-loading derelict.

Carleton's heaviest gun was a 9-pounder; while Easton had four 12-pounders, one of them mounted on a rowing battery that soon forced the British to retreat.

MOUNDS, SO CALLED.Before quitting Yellow River, I asked Kabamappa whether the Pe-li-co-gun-au-gun was a natural or artificial mound.

"A gun's a necessity.

"A gun is mo' dange'ous ter de man in front of it dan ter de man behin' it.

Our right hand gun was only a hundred yards from the cross-roads at Pria dell' Acqua, disagreeably close, as we afterwards discovered.

Inside the shapeless uniforms, however, their limbs swung with athletic freedom, and even at the fag-end of a hard day's marching, with perhaps several hours of marching yet ahead of them, they carried their heavy guns as though those guns were toys.

So the guns are a holy ark now.

A gun in our hands is a protest.

This cellar roof is too thin to stop an ordinary Fizzbang, much less a good solid Crump, and that machine gun upstairs is a certain invitation to sudden death and the German gunners to down and out us.

You see, a gun is f-f-fastened to the ground, and aiming along a certain avenue that the intended thief has just g-g-got to use in c-c-coming up to the b-b-bait.

Your little kennel would not be strong enough to resist a determined charge, and you are alone, if three good guns are not true friends.

When well out of sight of land, the Ranger was allowed to draw up, and the pirate crew suddenly found themselves under the fire of a sixty-gun ship, for which their own thirty-two guns were no match, and after a short engagement the black flag was hauled down.

To go to England and get guns became the dream of his life.

One gun wasn't plenty to do the fighting he was hankering for; he had about as much use for two guns as a toad has for a stinger.

Double-barrelled guns loaded with ball were the usual weapons; one or two single-barrelled pieces and a rifle or two being occasionally seen.

I asked one who seemed bad, what calibre his gun was.

It was adopted by the Government, and all guns since then have been modifications, more or less, of this type.

48 Metaphors for  guns