But where? There stood my rifle in one corner of the room, and my fishing rods in the other.

He threw his rifle to the beach and danced on it in an ecstasy of rage.

Mark did'nt take his rifle with him, thinkin' of course that he would see no game on the ice worth shootin', and a gun would only be an incumbrance to him.

We heard the report of Smith's rifle from time to time, and concluded that we should have to court-martial him for a wanton destruction of deer, contrary to the law we had established for our government on that subject.

It is pre-eminently suitable for defence, and if the warriors of the past found that flint-tipped shafts of wood would keep the invader at bay, how much more easily could a modern army equipped with rifles of precision and machine guns adapt Nature to its advantage?

I leant the rifle on the coping, and pulled the trigger.

He felt all right then, for he knew that when Westcott pinted that rifle at anything, something had to come.

I slung my rifle across my shoulder half way across, the sling slipped and so I could not use my arms.

I had promised him powder and lead enough to maintain his rifle for the probable remainder of his earthly hunting- career, if he succeeded in safely conveying to Quebec the hide and horns of the mammoth stag of the forest.

The man leaned his rifle against a sapling and bent over him fearlessly.

However, when she saw Pap ascend the hill, carrying his rifle over his shoulder, her face resumed its ordinary expression, and from that minute she gave to the simple preparations for supper undivided attention.

But the little time that was so occupied saved me a deal of trouble and danger, for it lasted just long enough for me to bring my rifle into position, which I did about the quickest, you may bet your life on that.

" SPIRIT OF BELGIAN SOLDIERS Writing from Antwerp on September 1, William G. Shepherd, United Press staff correspondent, illustrated the spirit of the soldiery of Belgium by the following story: "The little Belgian soldier who climbed into the compartment with me was dead tired; he trailed his rifle behind him, threw himself into the seat and fell sound asleep.

And Frank kept covering the object with his rifle as foot by foot they kept on.

Hear youyou with [the] long rifle by your sidedo you lack a wife?

"They came in solid ranks, without a word, loading and reloading their rifles without cessation.

He leaned back comfortably and smoked his pipe, with the old rifle between his knees.

"Now," said Dawson, when Trehayne had left us, "I must get along, see the Commander of the Malplaquet, and draw a uniform and rifle out of the marine stores.

Picking up a rifle beside a dead German, Rosseau fired at this officer and wounded him.

He found (he told the servant who opened the door for him) that he had just time to return for another rifle before the operation of closing in on the bears was to begin.

Again she built up a big fire, piled the wood in front of the door, and put the rifle within reach.

When the Boy joined him, there he was sitting up in Nicholas's sled, appallingly emaciated, but brisk as you please, ordering the disposition of the axe and rifle along either side, the tea-kettle and grub between his feet, showing how the deer-skin blankets should be wrapped, and especially was he dictatorial about the lashing of the mahout.

Then she observed that Jake had a rifle under his arm, and she added, "What are you doing with that gun?" "Wal, I've sort of gone back to packin' a Winchester," replied Jake.

At the command PITCH TENTS, each man steps off obliquely to the right with the right foot and lays his rifle on the ground, the butt of the rifle near the toe of the right foot, muzzle to the front, barrel to the left, and steps back into his place; each front rank man then draws his bayonet and sticks it in the ground by the outside of the right heel.

They must have seen the flash of my rifle through the tiles, and, suspecting possible sniping from the farm, must have wired back to their artillery, "Snipingberg from farmenhausen hoch!" or words to that effect.