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... us? We oughtn?t to have it, you know,? said Maisie. ?Beat me, and lock you up in your bedroom,? Dick answered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Maisie ...

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...?’ ‘Yes; they’re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?’ ‘Don’t know. Take the revolver, if ... ...nly contribute half a crown to the syndicate for the purchase of a hundred cartridges. ‘You can save better than I can, Dick,’ she explained; ‘I like ... ...ke anything that isn’t made just for you,’ said Dick bluntly. ‘Give me the cartridges, and I’ll try first shot. How far does one of these little re- v... ...d Maisie, promptly. ‘At least it makes an awful noise. Be careful with the cartridges; I don’t like those jagged stick-up things on the rim. Dick, do ... ...cus- tomed to strange experiences in his afternoon walks, and, finding the cartridge-box unguarded, made in- vestigations with his nose. Maisie fired,... ...the left; then perhaps you’ll get it. Oh, look at Amomma!— he’s eating the cartridges!’ Maisie turned, the revolver in her hand, just in time to see A... ...dored of his mistress, Amomma had naturally swallowed two loaded pin- fire cartridges. Maisie hurried up to assure herself that Dick had not miscounte... ...ly late for tea,’ said Maisie. ‘Let’s go home.’ ‘Let’s use the rest of the cartridges first,’ said Dick; and he helped Maisie down the slope of the fo... ...ty sea. ‘Spoilt my aim,’ said he, shaking his head. ‘There aren’t any more cartridges; we shall have to run home.’ But they did not run. They walked v...

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...them or us to eat. We sat upon the boxes, and played odd and even with the cartridges that was jolted out. “Then ten men with bows and arrows ran down... ...vot he goes to the biggest—a fellow they call Imbra—and lays a rifle and a cartridge at his feet, rubbing his nose respectfuly with his own nose, patt... ...lage, and fired four rounds at it from a thousand yards. That used all the cartridges I cared to spend, and I waited for Dravot, who had been away two... ...n the first man that set hand on him—not though old Peachey fired his last cartridge into the brown of ‘em. Not a single solitary sound did those swin...

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...r-front. While we were engaged in this, the exploded shell of an old brown cartridge dropped out of one of the pockets and rolled at my feet. Gunga Da... ...had not seen it; and I fell to thinking that a man does not carry exploded cartridge-cases, especially “browns,” which will not bear loading twice, ab... ...not bear loading twice, about with him when shooting. In other words, that cartridge-case had been fired inside the crater. Consequently there must be... ...ga Dass, must have shot him with his own gun—the gun that fitted the brown cartridges. He had never attempted to escape in 51 Rudyard Kipling the fac... ...them or us to eat. We sat upon the boxes, and played odd and even with the cartridges that was jolted out. “Then ten men with bows and arrows ran down... ...vot he goes to the biggest—a fellow they call Imbra—and lays a rifle and a cartridge at his feet, rubbing his nose respectfuly with his own nose, patt... ...n the first man that set hand on him—not though old Peachey fired his last cartridge into the brown of ‘em. Not a single solitary sound did those swin...

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...ooty was made of government papers, fire-arms, and some seventeen thousand cartridges. Then followed a scene which long rankled in the minds of the wh... ...age, super-excellent folly, a war of school-children; expen- sive guns and cartridges used like squibs or catherine-wheels on Guy Fawkes’s Day. On the... ...unate Knappe. On the 11th December, Mataafa received twenty-eight thousand cartridges, brought into the country in salt-beef kegs by the British ship ... ... the dangers of the German situation, ammunition began to run low; and the cartridge-boxes of the wounded and the dead had been al- ready brought into... ...ny ammu- nition to fit that gun?” “I do not know.” “What has become of the cartridge-belt?” “Another fellow grabbed that and the cartridges, and he wo... ...truth. Germans lay dead, the German wounded groaned in their cots; and the cartridges by which they fell had been sold by an American and brought into...

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...es.” The same artful savage had got at them, somehow or an- other, and the cartridges were all unserviceable. “Hum!” says the Sergeant. “Look to your ... ...im I am much mistaken if he would not have re- ceived my one round of ball-cartridge in his head. But, no Christian George King was visible. A sort of...

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... A man must also be sent to Chekhi,” he began, and took hold of one of the cartridge pouches of his Circassian coat, but let his hand drop immediately... ... sigh of relief. Hadji Murad having pulled out a bullet from one of the cartridge-pouches of his Circassian coat, and hav- ing taken out a rolled-u... ...rd it to me.” “It shall be done,” said Sado, and placed the note in the cartridge-pocket of his own coat. Then he took up the metal ewer and moved ... ...is strong young limbs stretched out so that his high chest, with the black cartridge-pouches sewn into the front of his white Circassian coat, was hig... ...oots, sheep- skin coats, and tall caps, with rifles on their shoulders and cartridges in their belts. As usual when marching through a hostile coun... ...d, gave a cut to Nazarov too and threw him from his horse. Bata took their cartridge-pouches from the slain. Khanefi wished to take Nazarov’s horse, b... ...bent over the dead Eldar and began taking the unused ammunition out of the cartridge cases of his coat. Khan Mahoma meanwhile continued to sing, lo...

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...g among the men. They dis- played a feverish desire to have every possible cartridge ready to their hands. The boxes were pulled around into various p... ...he men pounded them furiously into the hot rifle barrels. The flaps of the cartridge boxes were all unfastened, and bobbed idiotically with each movem... ...and cap were gone. His unbuttoned coat bulged in the wind. The flap of his cartridge box bobbed wildly, and his canteen, by its slender cord, swung ou... ...-narily he could not have borne it upon his palms; but he kept on stuffing cartridges into it, and 87 Stephen Crane pounding them with his clanking, ... ...guns. Their ramrods clanged loud with fury as their eager arms pounded the cartridges into the rifle bar- rels. The front of the regiment was a smoke-...

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...ith him invariably a considerable weight of broken objects, bits of shell, cartridge clips, hel- mets; it is a peripatetic museum. It is as if he hope... ...vidence. I am the least collecting of men, but I have brought home Italian cartridges, Austrian cartridges, the fuse of an Austrian shell, a broken It...

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... had taken in the beginning con- fessed to a brace of duelling pistols and cartridges, with which a fire could be started. Afterwards the lockers of t... ...in Rock, and there sat down to examine it. It was a short rifle with a big cartridge, and a nearly full magazine. He took out the cartridges carefully... ...sleuths got him rubberin’ der rail-road sheds!” “Oh!” “Dose guys done wase cartridges. Deyse hung him and dey pulled his legs. Deyse doin’ all der Chi... ... ago, secured a flannel shirt, a cor- duroy suit, and a revolver and fifty cartridges from an aban- doned pawnbroker’s. He also got some soap and had ...

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... and Europe, the ideas of the private soldiers had never passed beyond the cartridge-boxes on their backs or the bayo- nets in front of them. With the... ... one of us before we can get to Ernee. We must argue, as you call it, with cartridges. During the skirmish, which will last more time than you think f... ..., for the click of a musket was heard as the abbe exclaimed, “I have fifty cartridges in my pocket, monsieur le marquis, and my life is the king’s.” “... ...ols. Several old men were ex- amining into the number and condition of the cartridges of these young national guards dressed in the guise of Chouans, ...

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...wire nail that secured one of its corners in place was a bullion bag and a cartridge belt with a loaded revolver in the pouch. The dentist approached ... ...won’t. No, by God!” He drew Cribbens’s Winchester toward him and slipped a cartridge into the magazine. “No,” he growled. “Whatever happens, I’m going... ...stay. If anybody comes—” He depressed the lever of the rifle, and sent the cartridge clashing into the breech. “I ain’t going to sleep,” he muttered u... ...pidly first in one pocket, then in another. He had forgotten to take extra cartridges with him. McTeague swore under his breath as he flung the rifle ... ... Marcus had emptied his revolver at the mule, and though he still wore his cartridge belt, he was for the moment as unarmed as McTeague. “I guess,” be...

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... lean and spare. His brown canvas overalls were thrust into laced boots. A cartridge belt without any cartridges encircled his waist. A grey flannel s... ... the throat, showing the breast ruddy with tan; the waist encircled with a cartridge belt, empty of cartridges. But now, as Presley took more careful ... ...euvring swiftly in a cloud of smoke. Annixter’s revolver contained but six cartridges. Already it seemed to him as if he had fired twenty times. Witho... ...Francisco. Upon leaving Presley, Vanamee, his thumbs hooked into his empty cartridge belt, strode swiftly down from the hills of the Los Muertos stock... ... ten feet from S. Behrman’s huge stomach as Dyke drew the trigger. Had the cartridge exploded, death, certain and swift, would have followed, but at t...

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... Pillagers have done such incalculable mischief; Hassenfratz sends neither cartridges nor clothing; shoes we have, deceptively ‘soled with wood and pa... ...retreat- ing there, continually, with shouldered firelock and well- filled cartridge-box, in the yellow autumn; long hundreds of miles between them an... ...nze; can be quick as light- ning. He sends eight hundred muskets with ball-cartridges to the Convention itself; honourable Members shall act with thes...

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...at could reach it. But each hunter this day had his rifle and a large supply of cartridges. noticed they grinned with satisfaction whenever they looked... ... only her head was exposed. Wolf Larsen had procured a rifle and was throwing a cartridge into the barrel. I begged her with my eyes to go below, but s...

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...ricks in the box. So much now for the bricks. I will tell later how we use cartridge paper and cardboard and other things to help in our and of the de...

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...blunt bullet-heads Which long to muzzle in the hearts of lads. Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death....

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...d no goods to trade with by that time,’ I objected. ‘There’s a good lot of cartridges left even yet,’ he answered, looking away. ‘To speak plainly, he... ...lows waiting not very far. I am off. Could you give me a few Martini-Henry cartridges?’ I could, and did, with proper secrecy. He helped himself, with... ...ng it under his left arm. One of his pockets (bright red) was bulging with cartridges, from the other (dark blue) peeped ‘Towson’s Inquiry,’ &c., &c. ...

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...h with, and get it; though they are thousands strong, and have thirty ball-cartridges a man! The Sun is not yet down, when Peace, which might have com... ...Magistracy is out here at Clermont too; National Guards shrieking for ball-cartridges; and the Village ‘illuminates itself;’—deft Patriots springing o... ...ould seem, Duke de Brissac and the King’s Constitutional-Guard are ‘making cartridges secretly in the cellars;’ a set of Royalists, pure and impure; b... ...embly. How not, when the King’s so-called Constitutional Guard ‘was making cartridges in secret?’ Changes are necessary for the National Guard itself;... ... knows, and laments or not as the issue may turn, that ‘five thousand ball-cartridges, within these few days, have been distributed to Federes, at the... ...r Swiss! they know not how to act: from the southern win- dows, some fling cartridges, in sign of brotherhood; on the eastern outer staircase, and wit... ...all death-struck; bequeath their firelock, specify in which pocket are the cartridges; and die, murmuring, “Revenge me, Revenge thy country!” Brest Fe...

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... of rust, but many were of some new metal, and still fairly sound. But any cartridges or powder there may once have been had rotted into dust. One cor... ...en by the merest accident I discovered, in an air-tight case, two dynamite cartridges! I shouted “Eu- reka!” and smashed the case with joy. Then came ...

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...s to gunpowder I had none to give them, for my charges were all made up in cartridges; and I learned that the guns behind their backs were a mere pret...