Moberly and I both took carbines from the men, as they were firing wildly; the sepoy whose carbine I took invariably managed to jam the cartridge, partly his fault, and partly the fault of the worn state of the extractor.

And, though he carried a carbine, I would have been at him, maybe ere he could use it, but for the presence of Lorna.

Applegate made his way back to the line as best he could and as he reached the line he picked up a carbine that had fallen from the hand of a wounded soldier.

On looking round he saw a man throw down a carbine and run away, and another stretched on the pavement near him.

In this parade I saw a French infantryman aided along by a captured Zouave on one side and on the other by a German sentry who swung his loaded carbine in his free hand.

Bang went his carbine, and at the same instant, with a second loud report, the tire of my back wheel abruptly collapsed.

The field-guns rumbled into line and each rider unslung his carbine.

The duty of a good housekeeper, in case of a fight, is to load her husband's carbines.

We saw the Uhlans snatch out their carbines and gallop forward past the battery into the dust curtain.

I dropped my carbine, and grasped my club, which seemed a more straightforward implement.

Mateo more than others had a clear conscience; for more than ten years he had not pointed his carbine at a man, but he was always prudent, and put himself into a position to make a good defense if necessary.

I got to my feet, gripping a carbine.

At his saddle hung a carbine, and his holsters were not empty.

Suddenly, right past them came a driving storm of stampeding cavalry, panic-stricken, riding like damned men, tearing off and hurling from them carbines, canteens, belts; and McDunn, white with rage, whipped out his revolver and fired into them as they rushed by in a torrent of red dust.

I issued Snider carbines and twenty rounds ammunition to each man, and they left the next day.

There was a second shout from the warder, followed almost instantly by a hoarse command to halt, as the civil guard jerked his carbine to his shoulder.

A tree had knocked the carbine from his hand.

During one of their private interviews, the jealous and despised lover suddenly appeared on the opposite bank of the stream, and levelled his carbine at the breast of his rival.

Precisely at that moment they both turned so that they faced us; and the man on horseback lifted a carbine from a holster and half swung it in our direction.

Base worm, must thou needs discharge thy carbine to batter down the walls of learning? AMORETTO.

Approaching with confidence, but alert; his reins fallen, his hands nursing his carbine, his eyes searched the shadows of the trees, the empty windows, even the sun-swept sky.

Up to this time, neither of us had fired a shot, and Jerry suddenly went to one of the wagons; and, procuring an old Sharp's carbine, loaded it; and, taking good aim, fired at a group of four or five, that were huddled together on the plain.

Before they could get him off his horse he spurred out, and, pulling his carbine from the scabbard, charged into the mob, in the square.

" Dismounting, and resting the carbine over the back of my horse, I took careful, deliberate aim, and fired.

They left them on the deck, and preserved only their sabres: some few, however, saved their carbines, and, almost all the officers, their fowling pieces and pistols.