Cinnabar Joe sat in the doorway of his unfinished stable and squinted down the barrel of a high-power rifle.
I saw a fellow empty a barrel with a thimble, once--on a bet.
Jerking his gun from its holster the cowboy grasped it by the barrel and rapped loudly upon the bar: "O yes!
There could be but one end--madness--unless, he glanced again at the long blue barrel of his Colt.
There was always a big barrel of American apples just inside the door, and their homely fragrance wooed you from afar, the mellow savour cuddling round you half a mile off.
The only trouble was, the sight didn't match up with the barrel of the gun.
Sandy took the gun, flipped the safety switch and jabbed the barrel out of the cave.
So," Mike went on, "in order to get the scope and barrel lined up together, we have to move the cross hairs over to the right.
I'm blowed," at the same time emptying the burning ashes of his pipe on the top of the barrel with the utmost nonchalance.
The pistol burst, and thebarrel was all curled back like a dandelion stem in water; he had it in his pocket to show.
They put out the horses and fed them, and as soon as they could wash themselves at the rain-barrel behind the house, they went in and sat down with the family at dinner.
I slid my hands up along the barrel of my rifle until they were almost under the hilt of the bayonet.
I was trying to catch the reflection of some stray beam of light from the eyes of a man or the barrel of an automatic, but I do not believe that so much as a pin point of light was diffused in that whole black pit.
And presently he went aboard the ship, and took a bundle of straw and a barrel of gunpowder, strewed it round about the compass of the cords, and stood by with a brand of fire or match lighted in his hand.
Thus shall the barrelremain inexhaustible; it hath a lively spring and perpetual current.
Jennie found a berth between a flour barrel and mattress, while Mandy sat astride of an enormous bundle of bed clothes.
At one end of our barracks was the kitchen, and by the door stood a barrel into which was thrown beef bones and slops.
Come in, quick," said the goldsmith to the lad who carried an empty barrel on his shoulders and had in his hand a basket of provisions, the wine pouch, and a large roll of rope and cord.
Septimine continued to read as Bonaik wrote: "When the barrel is near enough to the air-hole, you will take firm hold of a rope that is wound around the barrel and throw yourself into the water.
I shall need a barrel that I shall fill with sand, and in the middle of which I shall place my mold.
The rope was to help pull thebarrel back as soon as Amael had seized it.
Now pass the barrel out of the window, and fasten to one of the hoops this string, the other end of which is in Amael's hands.
You will then draw towards the air-hole an empty barrel that we shall have tied to the end of the string.
I have often found that, despite the hoops that hold the staves of the barrel, where molds are placed inside of the sand, the barrel bursts when the molten metal is poured into the hollow.
The wicked Ricarik will himself have furnished us the barrel and ropes.
Frightened at the appearance of the abbess, the apprentice who drew the barrel threw himself back and dropped the cord.
Fortunately the goldsmith seized it as soon, and amidst the mortal fear of all, drew the barrel close to the window, saying: "Let us first save Amael.
Drawn towards himself by the latter, the barrel soon disappeared in the dark.
Then the man in the nightgown, after menacing Hood with a pistol, stuck the barrel of it into Deering's mouth, opened inopportunely to protest his innocence.
He crept toward it warily, and in a moment stood beneath the outward and visible form of a moon cleverly contrived of barrelstaves and tissue-paper with a lighted lantern inside, and thrust into the crotch of a tree.
With this he kicked a barrel into the gutter, and jumped back like a mischievous boy into the shelter of the alley.
Barrel succeeded in getting these orders revoked--that is to say, he obtained M.
He furiously drove the terrified Senator out of the house, and at once ordered his 'aide de camp' Barrel to imprison him.
He drank a barrel of beer a day, and his voice has now become a barrel organ.
Do you recollect, Bill, to have got a barrel from Bournemouth this morning containing specimens?
He was anxious to get information, for thebarrel belonged to a friend.
The two men rolled the barrel from the corner, and stood it on end before the fire.
O, he went off with the barrel in a four-wheeler, very trembling like,' replied Bill.
My friend Pitman, here, received a barrel which, it now appears, was meant for you.
Certainly not,' replied Julia; 'and if you can make me understand why Morris has sent a statue of Hercules instead of a barrel containing specimens for a friend, I shall be grateful till my dying day.
I don't know about specimens,' replied Bill; 'but the party as received the barrel I mean raised a sight of trouble.
I left my address and brought the barrel home; but, remembering an old adage, I determined not to open it except in the presence of my lawyer.
We renew these stoppages various times before dark, landing here a barrel and there a box, and occasionally picking up a passenger.
The barrel fell and was broken in pieces; but Raven son of Raven carried healing water and living water and sprinkled Ivan Tsarevich with them.
Eagle son of Eagle flew to the sea and brought mighty winds, the sea rose, and threw the barrel on shore.
Falcon son of Falcon grasped the barrel in his talons, bore it high, high in the air, and dropped it thence to the ground.
But it is said that on those infrequent occasions when his anger asserted itself, the steady steel-gray eyes flashed so menacingly that those who faced them would as soon look down the barrel of his Colt.
Instantly the barrel fell into a dozen pieces as its staves caved in.
He looked across the road just in time to see the barrel totter on the edge of the steep bank.
But his father came along and happened to pick up a barrel stave, remarking that it was just the thing to make a boy jump to his work.
Out of the barrel stuck two woolly legs, both kicking frantically.
I saw the double-barrel gun sticking out from under the seat.
Five-ten; but I think he'd take my single barreloff it.
And it was well they did; for there was a hole in the bottom large enough to drop a barrel through: she had been scuttled most ruthlessly.
Down went my barrel in range with a small white tuft on the forehead of the headmost one; and, letting him have it, I darted to one side.
It was nothing more than an old barrel suspended by a rope from the middle of a stout oar.
All quaff the sparkling cider or foaming beer, from the briskly-circulating pewter mug, which the last out of bed in the morning must replenish from the barrel in the cellar.
On her way from the house she stopped in the pantry and took three apples from the barrel standing there.
I wouldn't be so foolish as to fall into a slopbarrel in the first place.
You'd care if you had fallen into a slop barrel and had to be dipped out in a bucket and lathered all over and rinsed off," said Mary Lee.
I'll stand on the flour-bag with the barrel of the other revolver through the hole you've made.
He took one, and worked the barrel in the round hole until it fitted loosely enough to permit of training.
I wouldn't care to have a barrel of plaster roll on those chilblains of mine, Tony.
I was screwed all right, and I fell like a barrel in the Falls of Niagara.
It stood ghostly amongst the shadows of the room and near it, on a stool, were Antony's sculpting tools, his broad wooden knives and a barrel of plaster.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barrel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
