77 Words to use with rifles

An instant later came a tremendous rifle fire from either flank, which cut Gage's troops to pieces.

At last, about ten o'clock, we began to hear in the distance the loud and sharp reports of the big bull-whips, which were handled with great dexterity by the teamsters, and cracked like rifle shots.

Two or three small outlying rifle pits had to be taken before the Division could proceed with its effort to drive the enemy out of Sheria and protect the flank of the 60th Division, which had to cross the railway where a double line of trenches was to be tackled, the rear line above the other with the flank well thrown back and protected by small advanced pits to hold a few men and machine guns.

But her mind scarcely registered the impression, for a rifle ball struck the shaly edge of a bluff under which the road at this point ran, and tore loose a piece of the slate-like rock, which glanced whirling into the tonneau and grazed Gray Stoddard's temple.

To my delight, I found that it was quite loose, and I managed, using the rifle-barrel as a crowbar, to lever it out from the wall.

Though he often came under the fire of jeers and tauntsmore trying to most men than the rifle bullets of the enemyhe experienced a new joy which increased and deepened.

From it, one would be in long rifle range of the British.

With one sharp drive of the rifle butt the officer broke in the top of the keg, He kicked the barrel over with his foot.

The government seems to have taken no measure of precaution in view of the impending trouble, and contented itself with despatching telegraphic messages to the more distant stations, where the new rifle-practice was being introduced, ordering that the native troops were "to have no practice ammunition served out to them, but only to watch the firing of the Europeans."

Lenore heard his big hand slap round the rifle-stock.

Handy Solomon lay flat on his stomach, resting the rifle muzzle across the top of a sand dune.

The rifle salute may also be executed from the order or trail.

" "I think not; it is a little raiding-party of rifle-men.

During this one day's fight nearly two million rifle cartridges and more than 10,000 artillery projectiles were fired away by the Federals.

The supplies of bombs and small-arms ammunition were getting low, and to replenish them men had to expose themselves to a torrent of fire, so fierce indeed that in bringing up two boxes of rifle ammunition which four men could carry twelve casualties were incurred.

In the middle of one of her snatches of song she abruptly paused with the question: "Did you hear that, mother?" "No; to what do you refer?" "The sound of rifle-firing; something is wrong on the range.

Even as he spoke we heard a rifle crack; and then, after a pause, a second report.

The problem that he, and his colleagues engaged in similar work in other sections of the front, had to solve, washow to beat the Germans at their own game of "sniping," which cost us so many lives in the first year and a half of war; in other words, how to train a certain number of men to an art of rifle-shooting, combining the instincts and devices of a "Pathfinder" with the subtleties of modern optical and mechanical science.

We get an outside view of a cannon foundry, a rifle factory, the workmen being natives.

A favourite form of illumination I came across was a lamp made out of an empty tobacco tin, rifle oil for the illuminant, and a bit of a shirt for a wick!

" "Pitch him in the river!" "Swing him on a lamp-post." "Shoot him!" Bundled down the stairs, rifle-butts prodding him in the back to help him along, Jean was haled before an officer, who there and then signed an order of arrest.

Corporal Train fired a rifle grenade at one machine gun, which he hit and put out of action, and then shot the whole of the gun team.

You are right; the rival gunsthe Dreyse and the Chassepotare also rifle-guns.

English rifle regiments and light infantry captured La Vacquerie and the formidable defense on the spur known as Welsh ridge.

The steepness of the stony ravine we rode up soon reduced the horses to a walk, after which there was a good deal of attention to rifle-bolts, and a settling down to the more serious aspects of the adventure.

77 Words to use with  rifles