Were it not so, we'd have seen him ere this--tied to that accursed stake andriddled with bullets, as the others.
The rebels had seen the flag waving above the bushes, and had directed a hot fire against it, but, although his frail protection was riddled with bullets, Frank escaped unhurt.
Although the Milwaukee was completely riddled by the bullets of the guerrillas, he was the only one hurt.
The Janissaries already lay in heaps before the door, which they riddled with bullets till it looked like a corn-sifter.
The walls are everywhere pitted with bullet marks, and the upper story seems perfectly riddled with balls; but of course none of you were up there.
Their comrades made desperate efforts to carry them off; but the storm of bullets, fired at so short a range, rendered it impossible; while the wounded who attempted to rise and return were riddled with bullets, as soon as they moved.
Canvas dummies were riddled with bullets by the Maxims; and stockades, specially constructed for the purpose, were demolished by the big guns.
It was his own funeral, however, instead of a picnic, for his body was picked out of a fence corner, riddled with bullets.
As he passed by a clump of bushes, suddenly the flash and report of a gun shattered the still air and Lachuse fell heavily to the ground with his broad chest riddled with buckshot.
About twenty Chouans, afraid to fire at a distance lest they should kill their leader, rushed from the copse and riddled the tree with balls.
He gave a signal and a shower of bullets riddled the turgotine.
The party boarded the Verona and subjected the boat to a searching examination, discovering that the stairways, sides, and furnishings were riddled with shot holes.
It was the missiles from the brand-new shotgun--probably furnished by Dave Oswald--that riddled the pilot house and wounded many of the men who fell to the deck when the Verona tilted.
The pilot house was riddled and the woodwork filled with hundreds of the little leaden messengers that carried a story of "mutual interests of Capital and Labor.
The defense followed these witnesses with Oscar Carlson, the passenger on the Verona who had been fairly riddled with bullets.
Four exclamations of wrath and grief were heard, for seven of the horses were completely riddled with spears.
We could only ride two abreast and, if they are strong, we should be riddled with spears before we got through; and there's no charging them, among those stones and bush.
There, lying some twenty yards away, was the body of one of the men, riddled with spear holes.
He riddled them, he fair riddled them, till I was ashamed o' being married.
Silver Hill is all stones, as if creation had been riddled there, and in the sun the mica on them shines like many pools of water.
It is choked up in some places, in others riddled with shell-holes.
Outside there is torrid sunshine, riddled with flies.
Her big, unpleasant features, riddled with pock-marks, recalls the ill-painted faces that one sees on the coarse canvas of a traveling show.
The funnel was so riddledwith shot that it was like a sieve.
She was so riddled with shell, so battered, torn and damaged, that she was no more than a sheer hulk, lying idle on the waves.
Moreover, the merchant ship had been riddled fore, aft and amidships by the submarine's quick-firing guns, and it was sheer good luck that not one of these shells had struck a vital part of the ship.
He flew straight on,” wrote the officer in command, “until he must have been riddled with bullets.
We got knocked about, the mast almost gone, rigging gone, and she wasriddled right along the starboard side.
His clothes and cap were riddled with bullets, but he was not hit, because, as he explained, he kept always “on the move.
The machine and clothes of the last messenger were riddled with bullets but he himself was quite unhurt!
By the time he reached the beach he was riddled with bullets, but in spite of the great pain he must have been suffering he went about his duties speaking words of consolation to the dying men.
If the burrows did not collapse, the whole ground would be first thickly riddledwith holes to a depth of about ten inches, and in fifty years a hollow unsupported space, ten inches in depth, would be left.
Yet in the darkness the enemy would rush up, clambering over rocks and among trees, even to the front of the works, but only to leave their riddled bodies there upon the ground or to be swiftly repulsed headlong into the woods again.
There had been in some of the streets a good deal of fighting, and bullets had thickly spattered the fences and walls, and shells had riddled the houses from side to side.
Oudin and Papilette dropped upon the floor, riddled with bullets.
Had he made an effort to get away he would have been riddled immediately.
Keep close to those rocks where you are, for if you show yourself you will be riddled by my watching friends.
First, a bullet passed through his greatcoat; then his cap was struck; his haversack and water-bottle were riddled with shots; and a hole was bored through the scabbard of his bayonet.
They saw towns riddled with shot and shell, churches and public buildings with broken, tottering walls, and houses stripped of all their valuable contents.
They crawled out of their trench and wriggled along; but they had not gone a hundred yards when Wilson's companion rolled over, riddled with bullets.
Though he was alone against an armed host, he returned the fire and shot down six German officers before he fell, riddled with bullets.
She was completely riddled by shot, and her end had come.
As the last of the enemy retired the brave Highlander fell forward on to his gun, riddledwith thirty bullets.
Then the fire was deadly; the Turks were speedily mown down, and the pontoons, riddled with bullets, were soon at the bottom of the canal.
He was fired at constantly, and at last fell riddled with bullets.
I did not blow up that boat, as I saw it had already been riddled with bullets from the other bank.
A rescue party crawled out later on, and found the officer unconscious but alive, and Corporal Drake beside him, dead and riddled with bullets.
The shift of the wind gave Porter a faint hope of closing; and once more the riddled hulk of the little American frigate was headed for her foes.
These have already been given in detail; she was a riddled and entirely dismasted hulk.
But those who escaped the deadly fire of the topmen, escaped only to be riddled through by the long Yankee pikes; so, avenged by their own hands, the foremost of the assailants died, and the others gave back.
Had not the drivers been prompt in their action, they must inevitably have been riddled with balls.
I pictured him lying riddled with bullets on the steps of his palace at Blaenau, riddled with the bullets he had so often despised.
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