She must have known that I was none of Gib's company, for had I not risked my life at the muzzle of his pistol?

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.

" Obediently Bruce went over to her and laid a cold muzzle in her hand, his soft eyes looking lovingly into her face.

Brought muzzled to the stage, for fear they bite; Where, like Tom Dove, they stand the common foe.

He whined, and Gray Wolf thrust her warm muzzle against his neck.

"How did you ever work it?" Andy explained, while the trainer selected a muzzle for the bear and armed himself with the needle-pointed device.

After he had been some little while employed in this dismal way, his vixen, who had by this time bolted down the rabbit skin, head, ears and all, came to him and putting her paws on his knees, thrust her long muzzle into his face and began licking him.

At the command load each front-rank man or skirmisher faces half right and carries the right foot to the right, about 1 foot, to such position as will insure the greatest firmness and steadiness of the body; raises, or lowers, the piece and drops it into the left hand at the balance, left thumb extended along the stock, muzzle at the height of the breast, and turns the cut-off up.

In ten minutes he had the muzzle over Kazan's nose and fastened securely about his neck.

Gray Wolf stepped softly to his side and laid her muzzle on his shoulder.

The muzzle about Kazan's jaws saved him.

His huge right arm swung over the two-year-old's shoulder, and as they went down his left paw gripped the caribou's muzzle like a huge human hand.

After a time the mare cautiously moved up beside the roan stallion and stretched her own velvety muzzle toward the hand the Ramblin' Kid held out.

The third day, and Monarch still lay on his breast, his huge muzzle under his huger paw.

MUZZLING REGULATIONS Under the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Acts, 1878-1894, local authorities (i.e., county, borough, or district councils) were empowered to issue orders regulating the muzzling of dogs in public places and the keeping of dogs under control (otherwise than by muzzling).

The cannon stretched out their dark muzzles above the corpses.

The dogs sniffed the air, and wagged their tails, and tried to put their muzzles through the bars of their cage.

At once the ears of the stallion, which had been flat back, pricked sharply forward; the eyes of the animal grew luminous and soft as the eyes of a woman, and he dropped the black velvet of his muzzle beneath the master's chin.

They were large, powerful dogs, and longer in muzzle than those which we are now accustomed to see.

Handy Solomon lay flat on his stomach, resting the rifle muzzle across the top of a sand dune.

It was eagerly spoken, though the voice was strangely altered that came from behind the flowered curtain of that big bed, while the fingers drew it back, and Rollo raised his black muzzle near at hand.

Not content with stealing the loose silver a burglar is reported to have stolen the muzzle from off the watch-dog.

Dropping my gun with the muzzle between my feet, and holding it so far as I could with my numbed left handreleasing also my guide, but throwing him to the ground as I released himI drew my sword; and but just in time, with the same motion with which I drew it, I cut right through the neck of the dragon that had been launched against me.

If lying down, the left hand steadies and supports the piece at the balance, the toe of the butt resting on the ground, the muzzle off the ground.

As he stood with his two fore feet on the haunch, while he tugged and tore out a beef-steak, I once more grasped old "Sam Nock," and ran the muzzle out of the little port.