Which preposition to use with cartridges

in Occurrences 30%

He had just remembered that he had left an empty cartridge in his rifle, and that it was not clean.

into Occurrences 24%

Throwing a second cartridge into the gun, I let him have another shot, and I continued to pour the lead into him until I had him completely laid out.

of Occurrences 14%

Byron, backed by the good sense of Mavrocordatos, proposed to make cartridges of the tracts, and small shot of the type; he did not think that the turbulent tribes were ripe for freedom of the press, and had begun to regard Republicanism itself as a matter of secondary moment.

with Occurrences 10%

The Enfield rifle was a new mystery; and the busy brains of the sepoys were soon at work to divine the motive of the English in greasing cartridges with cow's fat.

at Occurrences 10%

Dravot he goes to the biggesta fellow they call Imbraand lays a rifle and a cartridge at his feet, rubbing his nose respectful with his own nose, patting him on the head, and saluting in front of it.

for Occurrences 9%

He had in the neighbourhood of a hundred cartridges for the rifle.

from Occurrences 9%

The marshal rushed into the street and picked up his gun, jerked some cartridges from his belt, slipped them into the cylinder and fired quickly at the fleeing horse and rider.

to Occurrences 4%

The order for confining the use of the new cartridges to the Europeans seems to have been looked upon by the native regiments as a confirmation of their suspicions with regard to them.

on Occurrences 3%

He placed the four cartridges on the table and turning his attention to the handkerchief examined it minutely.

out Occurrences 2%

2. A soldier who has been found short of even one cartridge out of the ammunition assigned to him, shall be punished with 12 lashes, provided that he has not previously been in any engagement.

off Occurrences 1%

Madame flicked the spent cartridge off her counterpane, where it had fallen upon ejection, and resumed.

by Occurrences 1%

The period of oscillation will differ widely in the two cases, as may be shown by suspending the cartridges by strings round their middle so that they shall hang horizontally, and then by a slight tap making them spin to and fro round the string as an axis.

per Occurrences 1%

MAXIM GUN, an automatic machine-gun invented by Hiram S. Maxim, an American, in 1884, capable of discharging 620 rifle cartridges per minute

down Occurrences 1%

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

under Occurrences 1%

The Russians had a rather odd way of burning stations and leaving the rails, the important thing, intact, but here and there they had neatly destroyed them for miles by exploding a cartridge under the end of each.

along Occurrences 1%

The magazine is loaded through an aperture in the butt plate, the opening of the spring cover of which causes the two ratchet bars to be depressed, so that the magazine can be filled by passing the cartridges along a smooth middle bar.

across Occurrences 1%

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.

Which preposition to use with  cartridges