Their ramrods clanged loud with fury as their eager arms pounded the cartridges into the rifle barrels.
The steel ramrods clanked and clanged with incessant din as the men pounded them furiously into the hot rifle barrels.
Setting two of the ramrods in the sand, so that they were in line with the distant oasis, Reeves waited till the sun dipped beneath the horizon, and the stars shone forth with the extreme brilliancy of the tropics.
Five yards away a fire burned dully in the sunlight, while across it a large piece of meat was supported on the long ramrods of the Arab guns.
Flash after flash now cut the darkness to right and left, and we both stood listening to the quick orders and the curious ringing sound made by the ramrods as the men reloaded.
We have the hatchets, and can whittle it away; and perhaps we can make some chisels, from the ramrods of your guards' guns.
Stanley took one of the iron ramrods and, raking some of the embers from the fire, placed it in them, about a foot from one end; then he directed the others to fan the embers, until they raised them almost to white heat.
The sight of the Granthis at work with their ramrods betrayed the truth at once, and the wild men took a step forward with a howl, and would have precipitated themselves upon their hereditary foes if Charteris had not stopped them.
A wild cheer from the mob proclaimed the victory; but at the same instant a rattling of ramrods and a clank of firelocks was heard in front, and from the rear of the soldiers a company marched out in echelon, and drew up as if on parade.
Again theramrods were heard clinking in the barrels.
The powder they kept to be used as a pigment for their faces, and the ramrods to be ornaments for the hair.
Keep silence, my lads," said the lieutenant, who had been waiting till the thudding of the ramrods came to an end and denoted that the little party was once more ready to deliver fire.
The ramrodsglisten and rattle down the barrels of a thousand muskets.
The burnt powder from the ramrods had blackened their hands, and in their efforts to remove the perspiration from their faces they had completed the coloring from the roots of the hair to the chin.
Those who stood nearest could not move back, and those behind had only become more curious to know what the noise of the ramrods meant.
The ramrods rattled, and in an instant the order was obeyed.
The Prussians iron ramrods gave them the advantage 'over an enemy whoseramrods were wooden, harder to manipulate and easily broken.
But the two rangers flourished their ramrods and taunted the soldiers with inquiries which I did not understand at the time, such as: "How's Bully Tryon and his blood-pudding?
The fight was desperate and silent, save for the whipping swish oframrods whistling, the dull shocks of blows, or the ringing crack of a cudgel on some luckless pate.
There was the rattling noise of the ramrodsin the barrels as the men loaded, and once more silence.
Ramrods were fitted below the barrels and the muzzles flared like lilies.
Blunderbuss muzzle, shells, yet no breech-loading; ramrods to shove in shells!
And now I think of it, the whole business sounds more like grinding ramrods in an armory, than any thing I ever come across; there's the squeakin of the wheels, that would go for them goose guzzles them fellers are pipin on.
The ends of three or four of the ramrods were placed in the fire, and two lines of holes were bored in the ice across the mouth of the little cove.
Half a dozen of yez," Peter said, "as have got iron ramrodsshove them into the fire.
Not a word was spoken until the ramrods were heated red-hot.
Now," Peter said, "two of yez clap your ramrods against this darky's flanks.
Peter and the Seneca watched the Indians through holes which they had made with their ramrods through a bank of snow.
With the heated ramrods little troughs were sunk half an inch deep, connecting the tops of the holes; lines of powder were placed in these trenches; narrow strips of skin were laid over them, and the snow was then thrown on again.
As the ramrods for these pistols were carried about the neck to facilitate loading on horseback, they were frequently made without ramrods attached.
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