51 collocations for rifling

Nora will rifle her husband's pockets, read his note-book, examine his letters, and when he goes on a trip she spends the day checking up his desk, for her soul delights in duplicate keys.

Ay, sir, have patience, and see your father To rifle up the treasure of my love, And play the spendthrift upon such an harlot!

She returns his tenderness, as it is extremely natural a young person so educated and brought up would return that of a criminal, who has made an impression on her heart by shooting her servants, rifling her trunks, and forcing her to dance a minuet with him on a deserted heath under a harvest moon.

But, finding some other light child of the air To rifle its store, had already been there; And no drop of honey for her to draw up, Her vengeance broke forth on the destitute cup.

Next instant there was a crash of musketry, and rifles spat fire and lead from a long semicircle behind the spot from which the star shell had risen.

On the evening of the 23rd of May the army of Versailles expended 26,000 discharges (calibre 0.16m), marine guns. 2000 " " 0.22m), " 60,000 " " 0.24m), rifled guns.

The light of a shaded lantern flashed over her the instant she crossed the threshold, dazzling her eyes indeed, yet not so completely but that she made out the figure of a man standing over her shattered jewel-box, of which he seemed to have been rifling the contents.

I was amused on this day, as well as on previous sorties, by seeing the eagerness with which the soldiers, European, Sikh, and Goorkha, rifled the bodies of the slain sepoys.

Long she flourish'd, Grew sweet to Sense, and lovely to the Eye; Till at the last a cruel Spoiler came, Cropt this fair Rose, and rifled all its Sweetness; Then cast it like a loathsome Weed away.

Let them think you heard a noise, got up to investigate, found me here, rifling the safe" "No," she insisted"no!

The murderers secured the horse to a tree in the orchard, and, having rifled the corpse, they dragged it up the stream, concealing it under the overhanging banks of the water-course.

The Danes had meantime rifled the country with their cross-guns and killed Edmund, the good king of East Anglia, who was afterwards canonized, though gunpowder had not then been invented.

Tina stole hairpins, opened letters that she could not hope to decipher, rummaged bureau drawers, rifled cupboards and fingered books; but then, so did most of the other Tinas in Rome.

By bribing the chambermaid, perhaps; by forcing a lock; by rifling her desk, examining her private papers.

Besidesto rifle the secret drawer of Madame de Montespan!

" When on board the junk they rifled the Englishmen, and brought heavy chains to chain them to the deck.

Small Poets rifle Him, yet thinke it faire, Because they rob a man that well can spare; They feed upon him, owe him every bit, Th'are all but Sub-excisemen of his Wit.

They rifle every flower, and lightly skim The crystal brook, and sip the running stream; And thus they feed their young with strange delight, And knead the yielding wax, and work the slimy sweet.

One stanza, however, I like much: This little babe, so few days old, Is come to rifle Satan's fold; All hell doth at his presence quake, Though he himself for cold do shake; For in this weak, unarmed wise, The gates of hell he will surprise.

On the 18th of September, they murdered two persons at Fort Argyle, and rifled the fort.

Such a story there is of Archimedes in Vitruvius, that having found out the means to know how much gold was mingled with the silver in king Hieron's crown, ran naked forth of the bath and cried [Greek: heuraeka], I have found: "and was commonly so intent to his studies, that he never perceived what was done about him: when the city was taken, and the soldiers now ready to rifle his house, he took no notice of it."

Meanwhile we learned that the Russian government was sending us four heavier guns, sixteen and thirty-two bronze rifled breech-loaders, the heaviest we had being ten-pound muzzle-loaders against a battery of field guns, Krupp steel, breech-loading twelve-pounders.

He was sent to prison for rifling the mail.

He became the target of every kind of fire, guns, machine guns, and rifles opening on him from the ridge whenever he exposed himself.

I had taken with me not only my sabre, but also my new pair of English rifled pistols, with a mallet for knocking in the charges.

51 collocations for  rifling