"Here's a few loose cartridges," said he.

"We've got no cartridges," he insinuated.

You can do the shooting, and you can keep the cartridges always by you.

Nevertheless I promised to go for the desired cartridges, fully resolved to make an appeal.

" Dropping his load of cartridges carelessly upon a flat rock which projected from the water, he busied himself in a search along the face of the cliff.

We blazed away at each other with blank cartridges; and when the scene ended in a hand-to-hand encountera general knock-down and drag-outthe way Jack and I killed Indians was "a caution."

" Crewe produced from a waistcoat pocket one of the four cartridges he had removed from the revolver Mademoiselle Chiron had handed to him and he placed it on the table.

In my old Battery, too, four hundred cartridges went up with a direct hit, and the Austrians then shelled the smoke with unpleasant effect.

Mr. Wertz was so beautifully turned out in the newest clothes and the loveliest stockings, and he had two loaders and three guns, and Lord Doraine told me that he had killed three pheasants, but the ground was knee-deep in cartridges round him, and Tom was furious, as he likes an enormous bag.

All wore long black-cloth robes trimmed with scarlet, and white turbans, and carried a Snider rifle and belt stuffed with cartridges slung over the left shoulder.

I thought in my innocence that we should hear as many reports as I had crammed cartridges down her muzzle.

[Footnote 1: "Having defended Fort Sumter for thirty-four hours, until the quarters were entirely burned, the main gates destroyed by fire, the gorge walls seriously injured, the magazine surrounded by flames, and its door closed from the effect of heat, four barrels and three cartridges of powder being available, and no provisions remaining but pork, I accepted terms of evacuation offered by General Beauregard . .

He knew that he had six cartridges, and only six, and he aimed deliberately.

Donovan craned over as they passed, and saw, half-buried in the soft ground, the battered brass of one of their own shell cartridges.

Nobody really wanted the responsibility of shooting a man who had smuggled stolen cartridges across the Dead Sea, and might do it again if allowed to live.

Meanwhile the magazine had been opened, and the powder-boys flocked to the scuttles, receiving cartridges in the leather boxes slung to their shoulders.

M'Donald was well supplied with cartridges, and these he was compelled to surrender to the garrison.

Twelve men were detailed for the purpose of executing him, but a pardon had been granted, unknown to Riley, in consequence of his age and services; they had no cartridges.

The powder was done up in red flannel cartridges.

Provided with one of these weapons and a couple of belts of cartridges, the hunters would run as long as their horses could keep up with the band, and literally cover the prairie with carcasses, many of which were never even skinned.

Peters and Jones were ordered to go down to the magazine, procure cartridges, and then proceed to the batteries and load the carronades.

You may see all conceivable ammunition, from rifle cartridges to a shell whose weight is liable to break through the floors of lorries, all on one train.

The weight of the argument was so evidently on my side that they had nothing to do but to submit, and laughingly Mr. Foeter put me in possession of a heavy old gun, three packages of cartridges, and the lantern.

The chief sent the interpreter to me, saying, I must order my men to make cartridges and clean their muskets, ready to go on shore in the morning.

They only want to go where cartridges are burnt.