So he raised the muzzle of a cannon in the plaza, fired a shot to right and left, and told the Portuguese that the land within the range of the balls was theirs, but no more.
At a street corner here and there is an ancient cannon, buried muzzle upwards into the ground, that serves to fend off from the sidewalk such wheeled traffic as exists.
He lay like one dead, the muzzle of the hose wriggling from his limp hands.
Drake's one purpose was to turn the muzzle of his imprisoned revolver upon Merryfield.
The steward aimed the muzzle of the hose, and Big Ivan of the Bridge let go of the rope and sprang at him.
Reaching for his own revolver, he shoved the muzzleagainst the bandit's breast.
He would gladly, and with extreme promptness, have shoved the cold muzzle of his Colt beneath the nose of any man at such moment of trial; but this young girl, with a glance and a laugh, had totally disarmed him.
Drop your muzzle on this native son, and if the fellow makes a suspicious move, plug him, you understand?
I know not; I only know that the poor animal, with dying strength, lifted his muzzle to his master's face, and twice he lapped it with his tongue.
The illustrious gentleman representing the law, does he tell me that I must muzzle my actors?
Rising to his feet the Cavalier suddenly felt the cold muzzle of a revolver pressed against his head, and heard the words: "You are my prisoner; resist and I will kill you; up with your arms!
On leaving the muzzleof the gun the shell will have an energy equivalent to that of a train of cars weighing 580 tons and running at sixty miles an hour.
And when he felt the hard muzzle just above his ear, he pulled the trigger.
The gun lay against a stone, its muzzle upward, at a distance of about forty feet, beyond and somewhat to the left of Trixy.
He was dragged from his place of concealment by a Mr. Glaze, who placed the muzzle of his gun near the boy's head and literally shot off the top of it.
Then, crooking my elbow, I reached down, sunk themuzzle into the back of the man under me, and again fired twice.
Once, when my head dropped from sleepiness, the helmet brought up against the muzzle of my gun.
Sharply I brought the muzzle against his left breast and fired twice.
If lying down the left hand steadies and supports the piece at the balance, the toe of the butt resting on the ground, the muzzle off the ground.
Enlisted men armed with the pistol execute inspection pistol by drawing the pistol from the holster and holding it diagonally across the body, barrel up, and 6 inches in front of the neck, muzzle pointing up and to the left.
Each rear-rank man moves to the right front, takes a similar position opposite the interval to the right of his front-rank man, muzzle of the piece extending beyond the front rank, and loads.
Each rear-rank man aims through the interval to the right of his file leader and leans slightly forward to advance the muzzle of his piece beyond the front rank.
If lying down, the left hand steadies and supports the piece at the balance, the toe of the butt resting on the ground, the muzzle off the ground.
Each front-rank man inserts the muzzle of his rifle under the front end of the ridge and holds the rifle upright, sling to the front, heel of butt on the ground beside the bayonet.
Against a man on foot, armed with a sword, be careful that the muzzle of the rifle is not grasped.
A white rag around the muzzle of the rifle will assist in sighting the piece when the front sight is not visible.
Still he advanced, till his face almost touched the muzzle of the pistol.
The latter thrust the muzzle of the rifle through the loophole; and, taking care to make noise enough to attract attraction, she pulled the trigger.
As soon as Mabel had spoken, all eyes were turned upward, and beheld the muzzle of a rifle cautiously thrust through a hole, June having resorted again to a ruse which had already proved so successful.
His rifle was discharged, it is true, but it was with the muzzle in the air, while the man himself plunged into the bushes, quite evidently hurt, if not slain.
It was but for an instant, however, for she immediately went to the loop, and was about to thrust the muzzle of the piece through it, when a feeling of natural aversion induced Mabel to seize her arm.
Not being well acquaint with guns, I kept the muzzle aye away from me, as it is every man's duty not to throw his precious life into jeopardy.
With a shriek, she bounded forward and clapped her hand on the muzzle of Bligny's pistol!
The woman had presence of mind enough to take down her husband's rifle and point it to the wolf, but she was so fearful of hurting the child, that she did not put the muzzle to its head, but to its shoulder.
Their united strength soon tore him down to the ground, and John coming up, as the wolf defended himself against his new assailants, put the muzzle of his rifle to the animal's head, and shot it dead.
The colour of the female is not so deep a black; the gray on the top of the neck and the shoulders extends to the sides, and the inferior part of the muzzle is white.
The head is narrow, and the muzzle fine; the ears are long and nearly naked; the eyes large and bright, with a peculiarly timid and suspicious expression.
Two charges of gun-cotton were then placed in the breech and muzzle and connected with fuses.
It was promptly surrounded, and the breech-block and muzzlewere destroyed with gun-cotton by Lieutenant Digby Jones, R.
Now, Betts had foreseen the probability of this very sortie, and had levelled one of his carronades, loaded to the muzzle with canister, directly at the largest pile of the planks.
The big brothers hastened to quiet him, and spared neither foot nor fist; but the dog, eluding them, returned again and again to the window, and mourned with his muzzle to the west.
From velvet muzzle to sweeping tail, from mottled croup to fetlocks, she shone in the sunlight like corn-silk.
But she would not let him, for she knew he had warts on his muzzle that he had caught the summer before while teasing a toad.
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.
Presently that frightful muzzle was withdrawn, and the slide pushed back, to reconnoitre me at leisure.
Two bogie trucks running before the locomotive were completely covered in with plating, except that the leading one was pierced in front for the muzzle of a machine-gun, and the second at either side for lateral fire.
Then climbing into the second seat and gently screwing the pistol muzzle into the small of his companion's back, 'Go on in God's name, and swiftly.
He tapped the muzzle of his old rifle against the wagon wheel to shake out the dust, and then took a squint into the barrel.
The diameter of the well was much less than the length of the old-fashioned flint-lock rifle; and thus it came about that muzzle and stock caught firmly, and Jo was suspended in the middle of the opening by one hand.
Raising his long rifle to his shoulder, he pointed it straight at Waughtauk, and then advanced until the muzzle was thrust through the window, while he himself stood no more than a foot outside.
A tall spare man, in the garb of a hunter, stood with his deadly rifle pointed straight at them, and the muzzle was not twelve feet distant from the head of Waughtauk the chief.
The Indians look upon buffalo hunting as the most dangerous of all their wild sports, and my guards often said they would rather stand naked at twenty paces from the muzzle of a carbine than at the same distance from a wild buffalo.
