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Example sentences for "gunsmith"

Lexicographically close words:
gunpowder; gunroom; guns; gunshot; gunshots; gunsmiths; gunwale; gunwales; gunyah; gunyahs
  1. Rivers has a gunsmith over at Kingsville, one Elmer Umholtz, who does all his fraudulent conversions for him.

  2. Outside of maybe his wife, and the gunsmith who made his fake Walker Colts and North & Cheney flintlocks, who is?

  3. He had it refinished by a gunsmith named Umholtz.

  4. The mention of the gunsmith seemed also to have a curious effect on the old man.

  5. The only relative of your father’s that I could get any information about was his youngest brother, Patrick Mullen, your uncle and a famous gunsmith of Maiden Lane, New York.

  6. I am Donald Mullen, the eldest of three brothers; Fay Mullen is the next of age and Patrick Mullen, the gunsmith of Maiden Lane, New York, is the youngest.

  7. The gunsmith was so impressed by the boy and his accomplishment that, after rifling the barrel, he fitted it with a lock.

  8. There was a gunsmith in Utica, and he walked there, fifteen miles over the hills, to have his barrel finished.

  9. As the gunsmith talked, speaking of the wild jungle into which they must wander, the wild people they would be likely to meet, and what they would need to meet the chances of their journey, his eye fired and his excitement grew.

  10. He turned the face up to the starlight and saw that it was Jim Dent, and that the gunsmith appeared to be unconscious.

  11. The gunsmith fell silent and mused for a few moments.

  12. The gunsmith struck the counter with his open hand till the weapons danced again.

  13. The task was entrusted to Master-gunsmith Ali-Kool, than whom no better craftsman lived in all Asia.

  14. If he were not a gunsmith he might become a professor of psychology.

  15. Ah, the cartridges do not fit; the gunsmith made a mistake;' and he has to put it off until the following day.

  16. The very gunsmith who sold it, and who knew Peytel, would he not have known that he had sold him this pistol?

  17. Davitt had £150 in his possession, and Wilson had fifty revolvers, it being suggested that the gunsmith was about to deliver the weapons in exchange for the money.

  18. He was appointed gunsmith to King Charles II.

  19. Melchor Alvarez, the first gunsmith who forged spiral cannon in Spain, and made double-barrelled guns.

  20. One of the first was the old gunsmith of whom I have already written.

  21. I had driven the streets of Hempfield for years, and gone in at the grocery stores, made a familiar resort of the gunsmith shop, and visited the post office, but had never really seen the printing-office at all.

  22. They were introduced as Alexander Barrett, the gunsmith and Stanley Markovitch, the distiller.

  23. Barrett would be glad to do business with him, once the gunsmith saw that hard tool-steel he had dug out of that place down the river.

  24. Well, our examination of rifles is not the detailed engineering, design experiment which a gunsmith or a rifle expert as such would concern himself with.

  25. I don't think that a gunsmith would buy the new cases.

  26. These were put in by a gunsmith in one of our machine shops--rather a machinist in one of our machine shops.

  27. He came in because I had a gunsmith sign on the street and there had been one there.

  28. How did you know that he came in because you had a gunsmith sign on the door?

  29. She told him that the gunsmith was moved--that he wasn't there, and she showed him down the street where to go to.

  30. We had a gunsmith sign out in front and I presume he had came up and saw that sign there and he stopped and came in.

  31. He just asked for the gunsmith and she told him the gunsmith had moved down the street and she went out in front and pointed down to where to go and told him where to go and showed him where it was at.

  32. In any event, you have the specific recollection that Schmidt engaged in a conversation over the telephone for some period of time at a time when he was supposed to be checking out this story of the gunsmith in Irving?

  33. There was a gunsmith or a sports shop or something back down there.

  34. Yes; it was, because I told him the gunsmith had moved.

  35. The last deviation from the regular course was in the case of a sailor named Cashman, who suffered death about the year 1817, in Skinner-street, opposite the house of a gunsmith whose shop he had been concerned in plundering.

  36. The gunsmith was anxious that this should not be; but his voice was overruled, and the criminal was carried in a cart to the scaffold.

  37. Costecalde, gunsmith by trade, represents a type that is rather rare in Tarascon.

  38. But this morning when I went to town and stopped at Carlstrom's shop I found the gunsmith humming louder than ever.

  39. The more I think of it the more I think that our gunsmith possesses many of the qualities of true greatness.

  40. But up to Monday morning the gunsmith went forward steadily with his preparations to leave.

  41. The old gunsmith had that pride of humility which is about the best pride in this world.

  42. Upon my return I found quite a strong feeling in favor of having the young gunsmith represent us, but, after my conversation with you, could not for a moment countenance any such proceedings on our part.

  43. But you remember that he did tell you it was done by a gunsmith in Cedar Hill?

  44. It might be; but I don't know of any gunsmith in Cedar Hill.

  45. Did he tell you where this gunsmith was located?

  46. He said that he got the thing from a gunsmith in Cedar Hill for a debt, the gun, and that he bought the scope and that the gunsmith mounted it for him.

  47. They made a movement to rise as men do when in presence of a leader: but the pretended gunsmith laid a finger on his lips and passed them by.

  48. It was the more easy for the pretended gunsmith to blend with the crowd as it was numerous.

  49. Within his reach was a richly gold-inlaid double-barrelled fowling piece, branded with the name of Leclere, the fashionable gunsmith of Paris.

  50. He took the old flintlock to the gunsmith and had it fixed over into a cap lock, and now I was rigged out with both gun and traps.

  51. Mr. Goodsil, the gunsmith in town, had been at work for some time on a new gun for me.

  52. Father told me that I must not borrow a gun any more but take one of our own guns and that he (father) would take the gun to the gunsmith and have the locks changed from a flint lock to a cap lock.

  53. He said the phrase, "Drill and tap," as used by a gunsmith means to drill a hole, using a tap to put threads in the hole to attach a scope mount.

  54. The scope was mounted on the rifle in our gun shop, most probably by a gunsmith named William Sharp.

  55. He recited to the gunsmith the complaint of the thief and the statement of the tailor, whereupon the gunsmith said: "Oh great and mighty Khan, this tailor knows not whereof he talks.

  56. The money to be put in the hands of Mr Jones, at the Lion and Horseshoe Tavern, or Mr Turog, gunsmith in the Minories.

  57. It is a question of eye," the gunsmith said next day, when Frank was alone with him.

  58. There is a gunsmith in St. Margaret's Street.

  59. Upwards of a thousand pieces are said to have been utilized in decorating this room--their arrangement being made by a gunsmith who had earlier done similar work at Windsor Castle and the Tower of London.

  60. It may be added that he utilized his materials more successfully than did Verrio in painting the staircase, and it is pleasant to learn that Gunsmith Harris's work was so well appreciated that he was granted a pension by way of reward.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunsmith" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.