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Example sentences for "barrelled"

Lexicographically close words:
barratry; barred; barrel; barreled; barrell; barrells; barrels; barren; barrenness; barrens
  1. Most of the arms in store at Dara were old double-barrelled guns, flintlocks, and a few damaged Remingtons; these I had roughly repaired, and distributed to the Bazinger recruits.

  2. The disease may be in the cargo, especially that part which is barrelled up, and not in the persons on board, and when that cargo is opened on our wharfs, the hot steaming air in contact with the ground imbibes the infection.

  3. I can conceive that infected air can be barrelled up, not in a hogshead of rum, nor perhaps sucre, but in a barrel of coffee.

  4. I had the single-barrelled shotgun, but my idea was to catch her alive.

  5. And my father, like them, had a long-barrelled rifle close to hand as he drove.

  6. Across their pommels were long-barrelled rifles.

  7. Dick exclaimed, as he grasped the scabbard of his own weapon in his left hand, while in his right he held his other double-barrelled pistol.

  8. We have a brace of double-barrelled pistols, and two brace of single barrels.

  9. We have each got a brace of double-barrelled pistols in our girdles, in addition to these old single-barrelled Indian ones that we carry for show, and our swords are leaning against the tree behind us, so we can get hold of them in a moment.

  10. Looking back, he saw three Moors in hot pursuit, whooping and brandishing their double-barrelled guns.

  11. They were now tolerably near, each carrying a double-barrelled gun, which was pointed towards me, elevated across the left arm and held by the right hand.

  12. Jousselin saw me thus equipped and with my double-barrelled gun on my shoulder, he recoiled in his armchair as far as he could get.

  13. Run off to my rooms and fetch my double-barrelled pistols; have my horse saddled, and come and rejoin me at Le Bourget.

  14. The double-barrelled pistol which I held in my right hand was only a foot and a half off M.

  15. Hutin had armed Bard with a carbine and provided himself with a double-barrelled gun.

  16. A page then arrived from the king to ask after Bana's health, carrying the Whitworth rifle as his master's card, and begging for a heavy double-barrelled gun to be sent him from Gani.

  17. At his side, leaning against a tree, was the long-barrelled fowling-piece, which he had just reloaded.

  18. He flourished the long-barrelled revolver theatrically, then turned with a chuckle of laughter to the gaping Mr. Crotin.

  19. There was something peculiarly businesslike in the long-barrelled revolver which the intruder held, in spite of the silver-plating and the gold inlay along the chased barrel.

  20. At the conclusion of the interview the envoy was presented with a horse and a double-barrelled gun.

  21. These were a double-barrelled rifle by Purday, some handsome Bohemian glass vases, and the horse upon which he himself rode when he met the King.

  22. Several of them had died in their tents, and one, believed to have been an officer, was described as lying on his double-barrelled gun, with his telescope yet strapped to his shoulders.

  23. I pulled the saw-barrelled Colt's 45 and raised it slowly to a level with his breast.

  24. I jerked out the short-barrelled Colt's 45 and turned it loose in their faces.

  25. Rightly viewed, I say, that double-barrelled ensign is the proudest gonfalon ever kissed by wanton zephyrs.

  26. Double-barrelled guns loaded with ball were the usual weapons; one or two single-barrelled pieces and a rifle or two being occasionally seen.

  27. We are not sufficiently aware, I have long thought, that the world is getting tired of single-barrelled greatness.

  28. Jenny Lind, when she gets to the prompt, un-crusted and foreshadowing West of this country, will find her six-barrelled greatness for the first time subject to a single trigger of appreciation.

  29. He had also purchased an old-fashioned double-barrelled fowling-piece, muzzle-loading and with percussion locks.

  30. We thought it best, therefore, to parley with Ibrahim, and came to terms with him by means of bribes of a double-barrelled gun and some gold.

  31. Two shots were fired by the parties without injury to either, although it is said that a passing Chinaman received fifteen buckshot in the calves of his legs from the Colonel's double-barrelled shotgun which were not intended for him.

  32. Their inseparable companion was a long-barrelled rifle, with which they could "draw a bead" on a deer or a squirrel or the white of an Indian's eye with equal coolness and certainty of killing.

  33. He found the doctor already in his cabin, putting together a heavy double-barrelled gun.

  34. Time had reconciled me to their custom of carrying, instead of cane or umbrella, long double-barrelled guns, whose muzzle they afford the stranger full opportunity of inspecting.


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    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    barrelled guns; barrelled rifle