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YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.

It is true I had a few scruples, that it might, should it come to the knowledge of Ann, be construed into something very like a breach of confidence.

Again he drew upon himself the wrath of the Boston Church, by openly stating his conviction that no civil government had a right to punish any individual for a breach of the Sabbath, or for any offence against either of the four commandments, or the first table.

"Tell us about your book, for we have been reading it as it comes out in the magazine, and are much exercised about how it's going to end," began Saul, gallantly throwing himself into the breach, for a momentary embarrassment fell upon the women at the idea of sitting for their portraits before they were ready.

To fail of saluting one, young or old, was a breach of good manners.

YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.

This he placed upon the loose powder at the breach of the gun.

"I must take your names, gentlemen, in case it should be necessary to proceed for breach of peace.

YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3.

She gives the charge, makes the stand, assaults the fort, and enters the breach.

breech 200 occurrences

Breech-Loader, The, and How to Use It.

He opened the breech and looked into the barrels.

"If you had killed him," she said, "I would have killed you!" Steinmetz picked up the rifle, closed the breech, and handed it to De Chauxville with a queer smile.

He dropped shells, fumbled with them at the breech, loaded wildly, aimed at random, pulled convulsively.

When they have given him a Bible and a breech-cloth they fondly fancy that he has become one of themselves, and urge that he shall enter upon his political rights.

His mouth was slightly twisted, as he picked up the rifle and opened the breech.

"Sacre, they would not be fools enough to pass it without wondering!" Howland had broken the breech of his revolver and was replacing the three empty cartridges with fresh ones.

But he must ask his mother to define How many jerks she would his breech should line.

There are fifty of them, and all are naked except a breech-clout, and are painted no two alike.

A convenient method is to insert the muzzle of the rifle into the can containing the soda solution and, with the cleaning rod inserted from the breech, pump the barrel full a few times.

(d) The proper method of oiling a barrel is as follows: Wipe the cleaning roll dry; select a clean patch and thoroughly saturate it with sperm oil or warmed cosmic, being sure that the cosmic has penetrated the patch; scrub the bore with the patch, finally drawing the patch smoothly from the muzzle to the breech, allowing the cleaning rod to turn with the rifling.

After scrubbing out with the soda solution, plug the bore from the breech with a cork at the front end of the chamber or where the rifling begins.

Let it stand for 30 minutes, pour out the standard solution, remove hose and breech plug, and swab out thoroughly with soda solution to neutralize and remove all trace of ammonia and powder fouling.

Apply the cosmic first with a brush; then, with the breech plugged, fill the barrel to the muzzle, pour out the surplus, remove the breechblock, and allow to drain.

We accordingly glided down the exterior surface of the cone among the ashes, on our breech, for it is impossible to descend in any other way and in a few seconds we reached its base.

We then descended rapidly, sometimes plunging down the ashes on our feet and sometimes gliding on our breech till we arrived at the place where we had descended from our mules, and this distance, which required one hour to ascend, cost us in its descent not more than seven minutes.

The advantages of being able to transfer all screws, springs, nipples, hammers, &c., from one musket to another, are so manifest to the most infantine comprehension, that I suppose they considered it beneath their notice; nor can I make out that they have duly inquired into the various breech-loading systems used in the States, some of which they have been testing in their Navy for years.

As, however, we are beginning to copy their application of machinery, I dare say the next generation will take up the question of breech-loading arms.

The fighters were naked except for breech-clouts.

The maona wore a breech-clout and a coat of cocoanut oil freshly laid on, but not sand, as in the Olympiads.

The men wore a shirt, breech-clout, leggings which reached to the thighs, and moccasins.

The cannonading was lively and well sustained, though it was not like one of the present time, when shot are hollow, and a gun is chambered and, not unfrequently, has a muzzle almost as large as the open end of a flour-barrel, and a breech as big as a hogshead.

Up with that blue breech, now playes he the Devil.

Look to your Shanks, Your Breech is safe enough, the Wolf's a Fern-brake.

So he gets off, and pretends to help him, and sets him up upon his breech, and being a very merry fellow, talked to him: "Well, and what's the matter now?" says he to him.