928 examples of muzzle in sentences

"When I first saw him, I was standin' with the butt of my rifle on the log, my hand graspin' the barrel, and as I caught it up suddenly to load, the string of my powder-horn caught between the muzzle and the ramrod, broke, and the horn fell to the ground.

In the course of his travels the ship in which he was a passenger was attacked by pirates, and John Howard showed himself as brave in actual battle as he was in fighting abuses; for he loaded the big gun with which the ship was armed nearly up to the muzzle with nails and spikes, and fired it into the pirate crew just in time to save himself and his companions from destruction.

He took her head between his hands, her clover-laden breath fanning his cheeks, and looked at the dark muzzle and the large eyes, almost human in their tenderness.

Then Xury took heart, and would have me let him go on shore; "Well, go," said I; so the boy jumped into the water, and taking a little gun in one hand, swam to shore with the other hand, and coming close to the creature, put the muzzle of the piece to his ear, and shot him in the head again, which dispatched him quite.

Yet I fear that Violette's heaving flanks and foam-spattered muzzle gave the lie to my careless bearing.

*** "Get your muzzle now!"

[Illustration: THE MILITARY MUZZLE.

I say, I want a muzzle for my dog.

Then I couldn't fit 'im if 'e was 'ere, cos 'e'd want a short muzzle and we've run out

Then will you find me a muzzle for this one? Assistant (with resigned despair).

Assistant (after attempting to fit the soulful-eyed dog with a muzzle and narrowly escaping being bitten).

Without a muzzle?

Here I stay till I get that muzzle.

I shall certainly report your conduct; and I only hope you won't sell a single other muzzle to-day!

(To a lady with an elderly Blenheim) If it's a muzzle, Mum The Owner of the Blenheim.

Must he have a muzzle?

Within a foot of the muzzle of his searchlight he saw the grinning face of another Chinaman.

Which one is it?" Don Antonio de Chiquito had ears like sunbonnets; he folded them back, lifted his muzzle toward Anvil rock, and brayed loudly.

By the prefixing of dis or un to reverse the meaning: as, please, displease; qualify, disqualify; organize, disorganize; fasten, unfasten; muzzle, unmuzzle; nerve, unnerve.

I heard irregular rifle-fire close by, but I could not see who was firing I was shown the machine-gun chamber, and the blind which hides the aperture for the muzzle was lifted, but only momentarily.

Rafael recoiled instinctively from the warm breath of that panting, furious muzzle which was reaching for his leg; but the dog, after a second's hesitation, began to wag its tail with pleasure; and was content merely to sniff at the boy's trousers so as to make absolutely sure of an old friend's identity.

The crew was mutinous on account of receiving no pay, the antiquated machinery broke down every few minutes, and the Major had a fierce quarrel with a negro minister who had paid first-class fare and refused to take second-class quarters, to which all colored folks were forced at the muzzle of the revolver, and a bloody race battle was only avoided by the fact that the negroes were entirely unarmed.

Yet the familiar face altered strangely while he looked at it: the nose sunk with sudden emaciation, and the jaws lengthened to a gaunt muzzle.

The first was what they called a 'Plug,' because it was made to fit into the muzzle of a flint, or match-lock.

He loads his gun up to the muzzle, and waits, as the years roll on, with his linstock in his hand, and one fine day at breakfast he fires his treble charge of grape-shot at his own father.

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