" "True," returned West, ramming the bullet into the second pistol; "it is quite irregular anderillegal, I believe.

As I turned back for another musket, I saw Mrs. Stewart at the other loophole, a smoking rifle in her hands, into which she was feverishly ramming another charge.

When in the act of ramming down the bullets I heard a shout.

There were also certain disadvantages: the one party could not injure those approaching it, and the other party, if it failed to sink some vessels by its ramming, was hemmed in and found no longer an equal contest.

Two patterns of towed explosive sweeps had also been tried and adopted, but it cannot be said that we had succeeded in finding any satisfactory anti-submarine device, although many brains were at work on the subject, and therefore the earliest successes against enemy submarines were principally achieved by ramming tactics.

"Yop," he went on, ramming his quid into the angle of his jaw, "and he's always admiring himself in the mirror, Racey is.

"Well, if I happened to be in command of a big vessel, say the size of the Olympic, and I hit the chain at a speed of a mile and a half an hour, and I had a full load on, the chain would stop me within about seventy feet and prevent me from ramming the lock gate.

The old fellow did try it again, and again, and again, plunging, and ramming, and tearing up the earth, until he formed an excavation large enough to contain his huge body.

Into a large pipe, which looked to Angela like a queer, enormous flute with a metal spout halfway down its length, he pushed a pill he had rolled, ramming it in with a long pin, and cooking it in the flame of a small spirit lamp.

For agonized moments there was no sound in that tomblike chamber save Alice's quick breathing and the shrieking tear of garments, and the ramming thud of the stick as Coquenil wedged cloth into crannies of the logs.

What wonder if the Indian shrinks with unspeakable horror from the thought of burying his friend's soul!of pressing and ramming down with pitiless clods that inner something which once took such delight in the sweet light of the sun!

" As he spoke the two others came back, Ephraim ramming a fresh charge into his musket.

"Let him die there," said the old pioneer callously, ramming a fresh charge into his gun.

Do you remember spasmodically ramming your hands into all your pockets until your arms took on the motions of a sailor at the pump, trying to save the old ship at sea?

Sad experience taught me that ramming the shot added to the kicking qualities of the firearm.

Falling upon them he wrought them many serious injuries with impunity, using both flank and smashing tactics, now ramming one of them, now backing water, in whatever way and as much as he liked, sometimes with many vessels against one and again with equal numbers opposed, occasionally even approaching safely with few against many.

His feet warned him of the cataclysm that was developing beneath themthe liquid water-spout invading with a foamy bellowing the space between keel and deck, destroying the metal screens, knocking down the bulk-heads, upsetting every object, dragging them forth with all the violence of an inundation, with the ramming force of a breaking dyke.

By Clarence A. Ramming.

Clarence A. Ramming (A); 30Nov73; R564260.

By Clarence A. Ramming.

Clarence A. Ramming (A); 30Nov73; R564260.

Mr. Chalk sank back in his chair and regarded him with awestruck attention; Captain Bowers, slowly ramming home a charge of tobacco with his thumb, smiled quietly.

cried Sam, ramming on his hat, and making for the door.

"When you're hunting Border Ruffians," said he, "a little expense don't count one way or the other; and you may be willing to pay dear for a chance to reload three or four times while the other man is ramming home a new charge.

You see, when the next British captain thinks of ramming one of our submarines he will remember the fate of Captain Fryatt and think twice!"