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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...

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...rince, bowing. ‘It was my last arrow,’ she returned. ‘I am disarmed. Blank cartridge, O mon Prince! And now I tell you, if you choose to leave this pr...

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...uctible target at an unknown distance, with a defective rifle and variable cartridges. Even if by chance you hit, you cannot know that you hit, and so...

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... let me into many hints of business matters if I had the exploration of them; and what secrets of the heart should I discover on the ‘pads’ of the you...

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... over myself. He laughed and said only: ‘I leave you half of your revolver cartridges and take half myself; they will fit mine. We are both white men,... ...ng of all voices. Almayer steered. The mate sat by his side, push- ing the cartridges into the chambers of his revolver. When the weapon was loaded he... ...st of the Islands hail. He thought: She might hear me… . I’ll go and get … cartridges … then will be all ready … noth- ing else. No. And while he stoo...

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...g in turn about ‘Mon Malheur.’ His hands had been blown away by a dynamite cartridge while fishing in some lagoon. This accident, I believe, had made ...

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...t into the narrow yard like spokes from a wheel. A silence followed. “Five cartridges,” said the man with the black beard. “That’s the best of all. Fo...

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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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... to take urgent and energetic steps to secure this essential ingredient of cartridge cases. Individualism had let zinc refining drift to Belgium and G...

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...est their neigh- bors should shoot them. They were supplied with bread and cartridges by their wives; for the persons of women are 223 Thomas de Quin...

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... poor creature is swung up they all shoot him full of holes, wasting their cartridges that cost solid money, and pretending they do it in horror of hi...

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... containing not only The Zulu’s personal effects but also a great array of cartridges, knives and heaven knows what extraordinary souvenirs which he h... ...ngly at us one and all—hunting with his right arm and hand in his belt for cartridges! A few seconds after this fleeting glimpse of heroic devotion ha...

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...’s space; how many things depend on a throw of the die! “That was his last cartridge, of course,” said the croupier, smiling after a moment’s silence,...

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...e, it were to be called insurrection, which must not be fired on with blank cartridge, but have its blood drawn at once. The strengtheners and the low ... ...hatically—as much as to say, this was not an occasion for firing with blank cartridges. “He’s an uncommonly unfortunate lad, is Fred. He’d need have—so...