22 Verbs to Use for the Word pellets

He examined the pellets ejected by a pair of owls that occupied a ruined gateway on the estate.

The perfection of all Spanyards; Mars in little; the best booke of the art of Warre printed in these Times: as a French Doctor I woo'd have given you pellets for pills, but as my noblest Lord rip my heart out in your service.

There was a short, sharp tussle; a second shot, but this time the weapon discharged its leaden pellet harmlessly.

'You don't suppose I fear your miserable pellets, do you?

Opening the box, he fingered the pellets curiously.

Hissing with hardly audible sighs, the weapons fired their stange pellets, and once again as over the woods on the Englewood Palisadesreally less than twenty-four hours ago, though it seemed a monththe little greenish vapor-wisps floated down, down, sinking gently on the Sahara air.

There is a second safety arrangement, not shown in the figure, consisting of a cross pin, held by a weak spiral spring, which is compressed by centrifugal force during flight, leaving the magazine pellet free to act, as above described, on impact.

In another instant I should have lodged the fatal pellet!

Nor was he content with giving us our personal fill; into every crevice of our firkin he packed a pellet of future indigestion.

" Each, after the invariable custom of hunters and scouts, carried bullet molds, and they were soon at work, melting the lead and casting bullets for their rifles, then pouring the shining pellets in a stream into their pouches.

" It was Foresto who, in the courtyard held Muti's stirrup, and secretly pressed into the visitor's hand a pellet of parchment.

They clinked and rattled, the little pellets of red and yellow and green, rolling, glinting over the floor and rapping up against the oak panels at the base of the walls.

One old gentleman had a shot through his nose; and an old fellow with a hat on, over the window, had received a pellet in the right eye!

Considering the furies of the times, I could better endure to see those young can-quaffing hucksters shoot off their pellets, so they would keep them from these English Flores poetarum; but now the world is come to that pass, that there starts up every day an old goose that sits hatching up those eggs which have been filched from the nest of crows and kestrels.

To allay alarm in the minds of those who fear they might swallow pellets of solder, I may add that Pereira cites Proust for the assurance that an alloy of tin and lead is less easily oxidized than pure lead.

The audience liked this, and cried and shouted and threw paper pellets at the dogs.

The following day Don brought a loaf of bread, sat on her bench, and tossed white pellets into the air.

Not until then did the paralysis, which had gripped me when I saw Ned turn the pellets into his hand, relax.

Des Esseintes warmed a pellet of storax, and a singular odor, at once repugnant and exquisite, pervaded the room.

As the boar was rushing up the farther bank, I deposited a pellet in his hind quarters.

But I only wish our tea to be of a superfine kind, To have it equal his 'Sparrow's Tongue' and their 'Dragon's Pellet.' "For a whole month where can I catch a single leisure day?

" There, now, Reader, you have the best classification extant of teas; and I will not detain you with any long descriptions of other kinds, seldom heard of by Americans, such as the "Sparrow's Tongue," the "Black Dragon," the "Dragon's Whiskers," the "Dragon's Pellet," the "Flowery Fragrance," and the "Careful Firing.

22 Verbs to Use for the Word  pellets