Here the men learned to roll out biscuit dough about the size and shape of a snake, coil it around a ramrod or a small wooden stick, and bake it before the fire.
When at last we succeeded in getting him in battle at Thompson’s Station in 1863, he ran his iron ramrod through the palm of his right hand and went to the rear.
Wiley Roberts into even a skirmish, but to-day he was kept close in hand and carried into the battle, but ran his ramrod through his right hand and went to the rear as related in this chronicle.
We were just walking away arm in arm, when I spied my friend the Major approaching, stiff as a ramrod and, as usual, obtrusively clean.
Abd-el-Kader drew a steel ramrod from a soldier's rifle, and probed sharply through the corn.
There is nothing so good as kabobs thus simply prepared: the ramrod is then stuck upright in the ground, and you sit down and cut off the pieces as required.
But my ramrod might be a good probe, and if it found bottom or top (which it was, it would have been difficult to say) the spade might save us.
In another instant I was working my ramrod through the earthen roof of our air-tight, although scarcely pregnable citadel.
Sergeant Marigold, when not occupied in the mild labour of filling glasses, stood like a guardian ramrod behind my chair--a self-assigned post to which he stuck grimly like a sentinel.
Sergeant Marigold stood stiff as a ramrod on the spot which Tufton had occupied.
In obedience to the summons of the bell Sergeant Marigold appeared and stood in his ramrod fashion by the door.
There was a good deal of pleasure in cleaning your gun when it got so foul that your ramrod stuck in it and you could hardly get it out.
Guichard worked quickly with powder horn and ramrod to load his rifle.
She detached the ramrod from the stock of the rifle and wrapped a bullet in greased cloth, ramming it into place down the tight, rifled barrel.
Johnny turned white with terror, and the ramrod with which Frank was driving home a ball in his rifle, trembled like a leaf in his grasp.
Then he gave a few more turns, to hold theramrod securely in its place.
He took out from his case some stout tape, passed it round the arm, asked Karl for a ramrod out of one his pistols and, with this, twisted the tape until it almost cut into the skin.
Time to wake them,' thought Lukashka, who had finished his ramrodand felt his eyes growing heavy.
What a ramrod it will make,' he said, swinging the sapling till it whistled through the air.
And when they so tormented and bit me under the harness, I whipped out a pistol as if I would exchange shots with them: yet did only take out the ramrod and therewith drive them from their banquet.
I'm Columbus,' said the Honourable Paddy, tinning the ramrod spit.
I shall never forget the sensation I experienced as my ramrod forced home the first ball.
He was so thin that he could never be hit by a bullet, as he could hide behind his ramrod in time of danger.
Because the infernalramrod means what he says, Blanchard!
A big, opinionated ramrod of a Scotchman who'd drive any girl to break her engagement a dozen times if she had promised as often as that.
Again there was a piece of paper pressed into the muzzle of the piece, and as the ramrodforced it home with a dull sound upon the charge, Jacob Gray perspired in every pore, and with difficulty kept himself from shrieking, mercy!
How he watched the action of the ramrodas the powder was pressed down.
I can heat the end of a ramrod in a fire and hammer it into the shape of a borer.
He said in his ramrod fashion: 'It's good of you to come to meet me, Elodie.
She was impressed by the martial bearing of her ramrod of a man, and she proudly fingered the three stripes on his sleeve and the D.
Dick Sand scratched the wall, and his ramrodpierced the clay rapidly.
The best tool Dick Sand could employ to pierce a hole through the wall was a ramrod furnished with a screw, intended to draw the wadding from a gun.
A minute after the beginning of the operation, the ramrodwent freely through the wall.
There is no better ramrod for the back of a senior, who is beginning to buckle, than the sight of a junior who has kept his nerve.
I always call it a revolver, but in reality it is a pistol, and a very old-fashioned make too, with this ramrod and the trigger so hard to pull that I have to use my other hand as well.
I too had seized my revolver, but before I could have drawn out the ramrod which serves as a cog to prevent it from going off, any one would have had time to seize me, bind me, and kill me a hundred times over.
But the one word, Lanstron, had been enough to thrill all the officers into silence and ramrod salutes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ramrod" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
