I've done so already," rejoined Olive, pulling back the mechanism that performed the double action of cocking the pistol and inserting a cartridge into the breech.
Even in her haste she remembered to release the safety-catch and to see that there was a cartridge in the breech.
We are economical people," says Dr Ferguson in another place, "famed for straining at gnats and swallowing camels, and the expense of ball cartridge is ever brought up in bar of the soldier being in the constant habit of firing it.
This was a cartridge belt of English make, with its pouches empty and its tough leather tom almost in two, lying like a broken-backed brown snake in a ditch.
All the world appeared to have put on cartridge belts and gone to war.
The case or canister-shot is prepared by filling a tin canister with grape-shot or musket-balls, and attaching it to the cartridge by means of a sabot.
I knocked the cartridge hull out of my gun; and already the enemy were seizing prisoners, and clubbing their muskets on such as were stubborn enough to resist.
As for myself, I aimed every shot at their belt-plates, and before they drove us, I had fired all my ammunition but two shots; and at that time I got a cartridge fast in my gun.
Taking the cartridge belt of Jig he shook the revolver out of the holster and pumped a shot into the ground.
Sinclair's own gun and cartridge belt hang on the wall at the foot of the bed.
She practiced back and forth in her room that exaggerated swagger, jerked her sombrero rakishly over one eye, cocked up her cartridge belt at one side, and swung down the stairs.
The bundle in the arms of the latter unrolled and showed two cartridge belts, with guns appended.
Instead of re-cocking the piece and trying a second snap, he worked the lever, threw in a new cartridge and pulled the trigger.
The ball did little damage, but the powder flash partly blinded the bear and it came down to all-fours and began pawing at its eyes, giving Searles an opportunity to throw in another cartridge and take fair aim at the head.
Then the cartridge boxes began exploding as the fire reached them, exciting the bear to more tumultuous struggles with the enfolding canvas and louder roars of pain and rage.
It was rather pleasant to watch them, but Jack had come out to kill some birds, and, putting a cartridge into his gun, he made ready to shoot.
Hugh said, "Slip anothercartridge in quick; that other fellow may get up and run off;" and they started down toward the fallen animals.
He slipped a cartridge into his gun, and Jack imitated him, and then both crouched in the trail and listened.
Jack put a cartridge in the gun, closed the breech, and partly raised the gun to his shoulder.
Extracting the empty cartridge and pushing a fresh one into the breech, as silently and quickly as possible, I fired again, this time taking a fuller sight and aiming for the centre of the lion's somewhat narrow hind-quarters.
I found ten rounds of ball cartridge which I threw away, and likewise a clothes-brush and a roll of gold and silver lace, but those I would not give carriage to.
The knapsack may be made on the plan of a cartridge box, of stout canvas or leather, and should be of moderate size and slung onto the belt so as to be slipped to any part of the waist and not hinder free bodily motion.
An ordinary shot gun cartridge of the paper shell type is used for the charge and it must be loaded with powder only.
The cartridge should fit the pipe snug, which it will do if the proper size is secured.
The commutator is made from an old 22 cartridge filed into two equal parts, each being a half circle, both of which are made fast to a collar on the shaft E.
Buck as his last full sheaf went into the cartridge roll, and he realized that with this gone he would be absolutely helpless.
Orris had replied to Lafe's queries by shaking out the now empty cartridge sheaves and dropping them again.
But by noon, the expenditure of ammunition was so much more rapid than the manufacture of newcartridge bags that the firing was restricted to 6 guns only.
Yes, father--bullet in one barrel, shot-cartridge in the other.
Here are the great majority of the gun and armor factories, the powder and cartridge works, together with the principal coal fields of Pennsylvania.
Then he took up a cartridge from the table and carefully extracted the bullet.
Into the space occupied by the bullet he poured a white powder and added a wad of paper, like a blank cartridge, placing the cartridge in the chamber of a revolver and repeating the operation until he had it fully loaded.
A cartridge rattled and fell into the beech and struck down a branch, which fell upon Giulia and cut her brow.
Cartridge upon cartridge blazed across; wounded and dying leaned against the tall stems of the beeches, and the down crashing branches decked these pale brows as if with a homely wreath of honour, upon which trickled the cold drops of death.
But the worst thing of all was the way his hand trembled as he promptly picked that cartridge out again.
Afterwards they found one more cartridge for the gun and tried to recover the body, but it was no use.
At last I almost touched him, when I fired my sixth cartridge between his shoulders, and he dropped stone dead.
He silently fits into a chamber the cartridge that had been brought to him.
The way was littered with mess-tins, cartridge belts, kepis and broken rifles.
The Lebel is an old type and has a tube fitted in the rifle under the barrel, the cartridge being fed onto the carrier by a spiral spring and plunger, the advancing bolt carrying the cartridge into the chamber.
