There was a cry of horror, and at the same moment a volley was fired at the bear's head; for the trappers felt that it was better to risk shooting their comrades than see them killed before their eyes.

Suddenly he springs up, with something like a scream, and then bursts out on Peter with a volley of oaths.

He met the great man's studied insolence with a volley of chaff, which is particularly galling to vain people because they are incapable of understanding it.

He ended by emptying it over what was, relatively, the only quiet man at the table excepting myself, bringing from him a volley of language which made the others appear dumb by comparison.

The roan greeted him with a volley from both heels that narrowly missed the head of Nash, but the cowpuncher merely smiled tolerantly.

It is doubtful even whether a volley was fired over it, that last military honor which he had recently paid to the remains of an Indian warrior.

Taken by surprise, they replied in English, and, before they could turn their animals, were stunned with the glare and crash of a musket-volley, a few feet ahead of them.

Presently there would come a swift volley of curses, then the whir and cut of the whipno, for a great occasion such as this the man would choose a large and durable club and beat him across the ribs.

" A fierce volley of curses bore him out.

In answer, a volley blazed, but what they had seen was too much for the nerves of even those hardy hunters and expert shots.

The volley sang about the ears of Perris, but he was unscathed, while he felt Alcatraz gather beneath him and sweep into a racing pace, his ears flat, his neck extended.

Another volley roared from the cursing cowpunchers behind them, but every bullet flew wide as the chestnut swerved.

This was followed by half a dozen other shots, which were replied to, almost simultaneously, by a volley from within, by which one of the attacking party was killed and another wounded.

The double volley described had already been fired, when the number of these was augmented by the arrival of Major Carteret and Mr. Ellis, who had just come from the Chronicle office, where the next day's paper had been in hasty preparation.

I wouldn' do nothin' 'g'inst de w'ite folks, suh,no, 'ndeed, I wouldn', suh!" Jerry's cries were drowned in a roar of rage and a volley of shots from the mob.

Taken by sudden surprise, the white people stood motionless for a moment, but the approaching negroes had scarcely covered half the distance to which the heat of the flames had driven back the mob, before they were greeted with a volley that laid them all low but two.

I told him I thought it was hard venturing any thing; but the best method I could think of was to fire upon them at once, as they lay, and if any were not killed at the first volley, and offered to submit, we might save them, and so put it wholly upon God's providence to direct the shot.

that perhaps they would all fire a volley again, to endeavour to make their fellows hear, and that we should all sally upon them, just at the Juncture when their pieces were all discharged, and they would certainly yield, and we should have them without bloodshed.

I then ordered a second volley to be fired in their rear, which put them to the gallop, and away they went to the woods.

I ordered our men to fire as before, every other man; and they took their aim so sure, that they killed several of the wolves at the first volley; but there was a necessity to keep a continual firing, for they came on like devils, those behind pushing on those before.

When we had fired a second volley of our fusees, we thought they stopped a little, and I hoped they would have gone off, but it was but a moment, for others came forward again; so we fired two volleys of our pistols;

Many years will pass before the echoes of that volley fired at dawn in a Brussels prison yard will die away.

Although taken entirely by surprise, the Spaniards had time for a partial change of front, and before the veterans of Apure had assembled at the mouth of the pass, a volley of musketry rang out from the Spanish lines, and the gleaming of bayonets told of a wall of steel across the path.

Volley after volley enfiladed their ranks, and, after each discharge, the mass of men was smaller.

Volley after volley enfiladed their ranks, and, after each discharge, the mass of men was smaller.