At the carbinereports the Indians in sight, out in the park, dived for shelter.
Only a few yards from the bridge did the last Indian pursuer give up the chase; and as the wagon rattled over the corduroy the carbine of a sentry at the post sounded the alarm.
Scarcely had the crashing report of the carbine rolled across the prairie and the horse fallen kicking, when from the spot where the rider had been pitched there welled the clear notes of a cavalry trumpet: "Officers' Call!
Next came a check of my carbine to make sure it was in perfect operating condition.
I watched it for a long time, nerves on edge, finger on my carbine trigger.
He had been knocked out of time by a vicious whack from the butt of a carbine held in the hands of the enraged Carey.
Holding his carbine by the strap, Bristow passed it down to Bob, who promptly slung it upon his back.
The countersign is correct," said the sentry, bringing his carbine to a carry.
I know I did something toward splitting that herd, for I could see the fire come out of my carbine and my cartridge-box is empty, but I never heard a report.
Besides, I have got you covered, and if you move that carbine a hair's breadth you are a gone deserter.
His eyes told him that his carbine was fired rapidly, for they showed him the flashes that followed the pulling of the trigger; but his ears took no note of the fact, for he could not hear the faintest report.
He laid hold of the carbine as he said this, and at the same moment two of his men placed their hands upon the sentinel's shoulders.
It was Bristow who spoke, and as he uttered these words he thrust the muzzle of his carbine through the loophole in front of him.
They took no horses with them, but they each secured a carbine and a box of cartridges.
Bob looked in the direction from which the voice came, and saw Talbot sitting in a dark corner, his carbine lying by his side and both his hands raised above his head.
He bowed, and lifted his smasher hat from the grass, and took up the Lee-Metford carbine he had been carrying and had laid aside, and went to Lynette and took her passive hand, and bent over it and kissed it.
He came up a slope from a lower level, and, taking in the situation at a glance, let fly three shots from his breech-loading carbine that caused the Indians to lie low.
But it was not to be, for a carbine spoke, and the raised arm of the Indian fell at his side.
Frank Burton, who was standing near me, shouted, "Henry, get your carbine and fall in with me on the left!
Frank had unslung his carbine and was holding it by the small of the stock in his right hand, the barrel resting in his left, looking calmly and resolutely at the hesitating Indians.
He was looking in the opposite direction, and I saw him fire three shots from his carbine in rapid succession.
In the wagon assigned to the use of the boy corporals and myself, Henry's carbine and revolver were found, but Frank said his brother had not worn them during the day.
Back your horse clear of the trail," he said; and there was a rattle as he flung his carbine across the saddle.
There's no horse in the Government service can keep pace with that black of mine, but it would not be difficult to pull him and just keep the trooper out of carbine shot behind.
A carbine flashed in front of him, two dim figures went by at a gallop, and a third one flung an order over his shoulder as he passed.
There was a hoarse shout from the trooper, and no answer, and a carbine flashed.
A trooper stood outside it, his carbine glinting in the light, and another was silhouetted against the sky, sitting motionless in his saddle further back on the prairie.
It came home across the ugly face of him, and then I flung it down and grabbed the carbine as he swung the black round with one hand fumbling in his jacket.
He wheeled his horse in among the birches, and then sat still, with fingers that quivered a little on the carbine stock, until a faint drumming rose from the prairie.
Payne saw his heels move and the spurs drip red, and slid his left hand further along the carbine stock.
His intent ears had already caught the measured tread of a sentry just ahead; stealing along for another few yards he could now see his head and shoulders and the end of a carbine projecting above the high grass.
His father and Jack perceived at the same moment that the boar in desperate and vengeful rage was heading straight for the boy, who held his carbine at the slant, looking on as at some fearful thrilling spectacle.
But what certainly will be the case is that the cavalry of the future will have to know how to shoot, and must be provided with something better than a carbine to shoot with.
One result of this was that it was always jamming, and unless the cartridges were kept well greased the empty shells would stick and the ejector fail to work; and this was almost sure to happen when the carbine became hot from quick firing.
But at the base of the rocks they came to another halt, for from the trees some distance back glinted nearly a hundred carbine barrels.
We must be mounted,' he said, 'and each man must have hiscarbine and pistols; I will take care to prepare everything requisite by tomorrow.
Then the first carbine spat out its vicious pellet.
He placed the muzzle of his carbine close behind the poor creature's ear.
At home they laid aside the carbine to take up the needle; though they were seldom called upon to wet their fingers in the washing-tub.
He then threw his carbine into the hollow of his arm and glided through the bushes, followed by his men.
Swickey stepped forward, glanced at the moose, and then her fingers relaxed, and the carbine clattered to the rocks as she sank down, her head drooping forward to her knees.
They hastened toward him, Avery in the lead and Swickey, carbine in hand, following.
Swickey sat with carbine across her knees, as steady as an old hand at the game.
Swickey's carbine jumped to her shoulder and she fired point-blank at the rearing blur of brown and white.
In the rapid charge the carbine is not only useless, but a positive incumbrance.
The rattling of the carbine and saber would have made it impossible to execute these movements with the silence necessary to success.
Fully satisfied that it was not spurious, he escorted me with his carbine to the stream, the banks of which were lined with a few straggling alder-bushes and thick saw-grass.
But the Rangers were compelled to discard the carbine and the saber for other reasons than their inferiority in the hand-to-hand conflict.
Ostik kept close to them, carrying Frank's Winchester carbine and a double barreled shotgun.
The breech loaders of Mr. Goodenough and the Houssas and Frank's repeating carbine now came into play.
They wakened the Breton, who rose to his knees, rubbing his eyes with one hand and feeling for his carbine with the other.
He leaned his carbineupon a bough, took a steady aim, and fired.
He leaped from the saddle, drew his carbine from the bucket, and flung to Aylmer the reins of both horses.
Reining in his horse, throwing the brown carbine over his shoulder and quickly dismounting, he stepped forward to the group and, with the unfailing salute, handed his commander a letter.
I did," is the cool, prompt answer, and Sergeant Feeny raises his hand to his carried carbine and stands attention as he sees the surgeon kneeling there.
Hastily picking up a carbine as he passed the door, Feeny ran nimbly out across the sandy barren, disappearing in the darkness to the southeast.
Click, click went the hammer of his carbine to full cock.
Hitch in and get that team to the head of the cañon, lively now," was his brief order to the sleepy trooper who greeted him, carbine in hand.
The rude façade of adobe blazed red one instant in the flash of the carbine and the loud report went bellowing out across the plain.
The soldier sitting drowsily on the rock beside the prisoner gladly accepted permission to put aside his carbine and go to sleep.
The air rings with the shots of the encircling Apaches and with the loud report of the cavalrycarbine answering the hidden foe.
Down went Feeny's carbine as, with outstretched hand, he sprang to grasp his comrade trooper's.
Fiercely, with sharp emphasis, the sergeant brought his carbine to full cock.
He had just time to grasp his own carbine and to attempt to swing off when the second shot echoed loudly from the rocks.
Steve and the ball from the carbine passed under the arch at the same instant, the bullet lodging somewhere in the wagon bed.
The scout lay, drowsily happy, the sunshine making spun gold of his hair and beard, his carbine resting near.
The carbine had been fired; perhaps the bullet was in his brain.
Seeing that he did so, they began to discharge carbine and pistol, some aiming at Little Sorrel, some at the grey figure riding stiffly, bolt upright and elbows out.
Along the road, which for a while paralleled the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, cavalry vedettes sat their horses, carbine on thigh.
I call that pluck," said Hallam, "a dozen lancers without a carbineamong them running at a company of infantry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carbine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
