76 Verbs to Use for the Word cartridges

It was but an indistinct glimpse which I had had, and before I could throw another cartridge into the barrel of my rifle the bear was out of sight.

Where I was going I scarcely thought; my one idea was to put as big a distance as possible between myself and the carbine before its owner could ram home a second cartridge.

Blake now rushed after the bear with his hunter following some fifty yards behind, and approached to within ten steps, when he fired his last cartridge, hitting the bear hard.

If blank ammunition is used, an officer should supervise its issue and carefully inspect to see that no man carries any ball cartridges.

With infinite precaution Barnett picked out an object that looked like a 22- calibre short cartridge, wadded some cotton batten in his hand, set the thing in the wadding, laid it on the rock, carefully returned the small box to the large box and the large box to the boat, took up the cartridge again and waded back to the cliff.

"We've got no cartridges," he insinuated.

Kurt stopped wasting his cartridges.

On the 26th of February, the 19th regiment, then stationed at Berhampore, refused to receive the cartridges that were served out, and were prevented from open violence only by the presence of a superior English force.

We had filled cartridges, seen to our guns, and made every preparation for the beat, and early in the morning the coolies and idlers of the forest villages all round were ranged in circles about our camp.

At Meerut the story of the greased cartridges had been capped by the story of the bonedust; and there were the same kind of incendiary fires, the same lack of respect toward European officers, and the same whispered resolve not to touch the cartridges, as at Barrackpur.

Then he fingered the others, tried their weight and balance, slipped cartridges into the cylinders and extracted them again, whirled the cylinders, examined the minutest parts of the actions.

" "Did he buy cartridges?"

A box containing army cartridges was improvised as an operating table, and I engaged Mr. Bean, one of our packers, and Mr. Hedges as assistant surgeons.

(d) Ammunition, consisting of 90 rounds ball cartridges, caliber .30 (old model belt).

they cost the Grand Duke two cartridges, and two shot, without even changing the lugger's course!

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

He drew out a used cartridge, which he examined with another exclamation.

The Galvanic apparatus has been repeatedly tried in placethat is by exploding cartridges in the very chambers of the rock prepared for the powderwith the batteries at 1200 feet distance they are in full form and act admirably so that I see but little fear of failure on that head.

A sergent de ville says to him, "If we find a cartridge upon you, we shall shoot you."

Strange to say, however, none of the new cartridges had been issued to the sepoys; and had this been promptly explained to the men, and the sepoys left to grease their own cartridges, the alarm might have died out.

The magazine, M, is simply a sheet iron or steel box of a size to hold five cartridges, but there seems no reason why it should not be of larger dimensions.

Inwardly he was cursing himself for a fool in having kept the cartridge.

In loading, use force enough to load each cartridge with one motion.

The military authorities in India, with strange indifference to the prejudices of sepoys, ordered the cartridges to be prepared at Calcutta in like manner; forgetting that the fat of pigs was hateful to the Mahometans, while the fat of cows was still more horrible in the eyes of the Hindus.

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

76 Verbs to Use for the Word  cartridges