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Example sentences for "hand barrel"

  • I could not fire the left-hand barrel on account of the numerous trees and bushes.

  • Jumping forward past the huge body, I fired the left-hand barrel at an elephant that had advanced from the herd; it fell immediately!

  • A quick shot with the left-hand barrel produced no effect, as the movements of the animal were too rapid to allow a steady aim at the forehead; I accordingly took my trmisty little Fletcher* double rifle No.

  • I hit the last calf in the head with a double-barrelled gun, and he immediately sank; and I missed another calf with the left-hand barrel; therefore two escaped.

  • Annoyed at the failure of the shot, I tried him with the left-hand barrel at the same hole.

  • He was the largest spotted buck that I ever saw, and, being within thirty paces, I took a flying shot with the right-hand barrel.

  • Firing a shot at the leading elephant, simply in the endeavor to check the herd, I repeated with the left-hand barrel at the head of his companion.

  • He gave a convulsive bound, but rolled over backward; before he could recover himself I fired the left-hand barrel.

  • I fired my right-hand barrel in his throat, as it was useless to aim at the head protected by two horns at the nose.

  • The other, startled at the shot, dashed off; at the same time he received a shell from my rifle in the flank, and a shot from the left-hand barrel in the rear.

  • I heard the bullet from the left hand barrel strike a tree stem, which saved the antelope, but having quickly reloaded, I had a clear and steady shot at a long range as the large buck suddenly stopped and looked back.

  • I knocked over one, and with the left-hand barrel I wounded a leucotis.

  • Caspar bored its body through and through with a bullet from his right-hand barrel, and hung its bleeding carcass on the branch of a tree.

  • The creature, as it stood right before the muzzle of his gun, now offered too tempting a shot, and the right-hand barrel put an end to its barking.

  • Then, reloading his right-hand barrel with a fresh bullet, he continued on in search of the herd of yaks.

  • Karl had got possession of his rifle, and Caspar hastily rammed a load into the right-hand barrel, so that both were in readiness to offer good help to the guide, if it should turn out to be a wild beast that was his assailant.

  • Seeing that he did not seem disposed to move, I reloaded without firing my left-hand barrel.

  • However, on the first opportunity I made a dash by him, and fired my left-hand barrel at full gallop.

  • Crack went the left-hand barrel of the little Fletcher 24, and down went a tetel like a lump of lead, before the satisfactory sound of the bullet returned from the distance.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    analogous case; breadth escapes; earlier life; greatly improved; hand book; hand books; hand combat; hand door; hand down; hand edge; handed down; handed sword; handed them; handle them; hands and; hands clasped; hands employed; hands together; handsome fellow; handsome girl; handsomely bound; indictment against; pretty near; roll over; sending them; that kind