Feet, legs, moving of themselves, cut off at the knees by the fog layer, distant not more than short rifle range: that was what had been revealed.
Of the fellow in the rifle pit there was no living token.
The white and yellow pine is nearly equally distributed in this region, extending also into the counties south, and reaching Rifle River in Saginaw and Arrenac counties, having an outlet on Saginaw Bay.
In the beginning of February I paid my ship off, and met Mr. Cochrane Johnstone in town, who told me, Sir Alexander Cochrane was very anxious he should go out in the Tonnant, to teach the marines the rifle exercise.
He had been, I believe, in the rifle corps of the Saint James's.
The body of the savage and his rifle had disappeared--how, it was in vain to conjecture.
Roversi's rifle had a magazine for sixteen cartridges.
Ahmed at once approached him, seized his rifle with his left hand, and extended his right to greet him, asking him at the same time to alight.
My duty was to remain at the end of the trap door with my back to the wall, and rifle cocked as a sentry, keeping a strict eye on the servants.
Hendricks, when aiming his rifle at some prominent person, died by a straggling ball through his heart.
In an instant the dark apertures flashed their lightning, and rifle and revolver-shots rang on the still night air.
Down went Harvey's rifle as he leaped out into the blessed air to greet the coming host.
In an instant Harvey had raised his rifle and struck the resounding board a fierce blow with the butt.
Even those who had stampeded at the first yell of alarm were now reining back in broad, sweeping circle, unslinging the ready rifle and pouring in a long-range fire on the distant rank of cavalry, just bursting into the triumph of the charge.
Then the gunman crept back to the rim and lay waiting, a handful of rifle shells loose on a flat rock in front of him.
For any man that isn't outfitted there's a rifle and fifty rounds of soft-nosed ammunition downstairs.
It would have heartened you could you have seen him, when he was unhorsed, grab a rifle and fire it as he went on up, on foot.
At a sign from the man with the rifle he took his stand beside Flint; three paces in front of the luckless pair shone the short barrel of the Winchester repeater.
The minutes passed slowly until two hours had elapsed, and then a slight rustling of leaves near the entrance caused Cummings to seize the rifle more firmly and peer out.
From the disorder it was apparent that the stewards had been in this apartment before him; but a finerifle yet hung on the bulk-head, and in the open locker was quite a large amount of ammunition.
Cummings waited only until he had given the Indian his own rifle and some cartridges, for it was a more effective weapon than Neal's, and then he and Jake did as directed.
I haven't heard the report of his rifle for a long while.
Again Poyor spoke to Cummings, and again the latter stopped suddenly and wheeled about: but this time there was no warning shout to prevent the rifle from being discharged.
New canvas with which to patch up their tents, cartridges for rifle and revolver, and provisions were purchased and lashed to the back of the remaining pack mule, or carried by the Overlanders in small packs on their ponies.
A burst of rifle fire woke the mountain echoes, but, being out of the range of fire, he merely crouched down and waited to see what the attackers would do.
Jed Thompson carried a rifleunder his arm, and his face was as black as a thunder cloud.
Without an instant's hesitation he fired his rifle from the hip.
Both hid in deep shadows, each with a rifle at her side and a revolver in its holster.
The rifle clattered to the floor, but Elfreda Briggs still held her position, her eyes narrowly watching the angry mountaineer.
Tom was right," murmured Grace, when, after giving Washington and Hippy final directions, she had retired to her tent and lain down withrifle and revolver within easy reach.
After breakfast, as planned, Grace took up her rifle and went away, leaving Elfreda and the others to guard the camp and, incidentally, to keep Washington busy and out of mischief.
Hippy, riflein hand, halted just outside the camp and waited.
An instant later a man stepped into the camp, a rifle slung under one arm, a revolver hanging from his belt in its holster.
Elfreda, fire three interval shots with your rifle to guide him in.
You will find your rifle and revolver right here where I am standing.
The mountain man permitted his grasp on his rifle to relax and the weapon fell to the ground.
At the same instant, it seemed, the report of a rifle woke the echoes.
From this point of vantage we discovered a small herd of browsing buffalo but so far away from us as to be beyond rifle range.
Do you not recollect Howell's curious rifle fashioned in the form of a walking-stick?
The rifle and bayonet very probably are becoming obsolete too.
They were subjected to rifle fire, machine-gun fire and bombs of a peculiar sort, big iron balls of the size of a football filled with explosive that were just flung down the steep.
The machine gun becomes lighter and more and more controllable by one man; as it does so the days of the rifle draw to a close.
Fingal was in the bow thwarts, with a rifle across his knees; in the stern was Cassidy and a negro soldier, both likewise armed with rifles.
I heard a number of rifle shots, and that led me to hurry toward the path.
A rifle was fired and the bullet hissed spitefully through the air above their heads.
Nexdt dime you do a t'ing like dot, meppy I vill haf a rifle hanty.
Fortunately I had no great distance to fall, and as I did so, I kept my rifle clasped closely to my breast.
Whilst they were thus stationary I fired both barrels of my rifle as quickly as possible, selecting as their object two of those who had firearms in their hands.
All I did know was, that four active, unwounded, ferocious men were somewhere near at hand, thirsting for my blood, and that I had but my rifle and my trusty hound to depend on to save me from their clutches.
I did not run far, for being expert at loading, my rifle was soon ready, and I well knew that all depended upon my speedy and effective use of the trusty weapon.
He passed me and went silently forward for a few steps, when again the report of my rifle rang through the woods, and I had but four foemen to contend with.
He unslung his rifleand exchanged it for Olva's spears.
Kalvar Dard still led, the heavy rifle cradled in the crook of his left arm and a sack of bombs slung from his shoulder, his eyes forever shifting to right and left searching for hidden danger.
The woodsman's grizzled lips parted in a smile of satisfaction, and after a glance at his rifle to see that the cartridge was in place, he crept onward down the lake, well under cover and as soundless as his own shadow.
The source of this erratic shadow was a lean backwoodsman, who, rifle in hand, was stealing on moccasined feet down the lake shore under cover of the fringing branches.
Having no dread of anything that inhabited the wilds, Logan had left his rifle at home, and carried no weapon but the knife in his belt and his light, straight-hafted axe.
And Mr. Bailey gripped his rifle tighter as he looked at the two captives.
The mother and daughter were a little anxious when the rosy-cheeked boy donned his heavy boots, pushed his trousers down the legs, and taking the long-barreled rifle from where it rested in the corner turned to kiss them good-by.
With all this, he found opportunity to practice with the rifle and to prepare his lessons for the morrow, so that it need not be said he had little idle time on his hands.
The fact was, he felt dissatisfied with himself, or rather with the rifle which his indulgent father had presented to him only a few weeks before.
It was the voice of the plucky Mrs. Fowler, who hurried forward with anxious face, the smoking rifle in her hands.
There was no school that day, and Mr. Ribsam, having satisfied himself of the ability of Nick to handle the rifle of his neighbor, had given him permission to go on a hunt for the bear which had so frightened Nellie a couple of months before.
I'm going to try and bark him," remarked Nick, cocking his rifle and sighting at the little animal.
His rifle was slung over his shoulder, and the dog, which they had christened Bowser, was at his heels.
They were still patting and soothing the wounded hound, when the report of Herbert's rifle was heard again.
Knowing that the game would bound away with the speed of the wind the instant he scented danger, the lad brought up his rifle and pointed at him.
There was no use for the empty rifle as it seemed, and Nick was on the point of throwing it away, when it occurred to him that it might still serve as a weapon of defense.
That man who handles the riflemust be wonderfully skillful to bring down one of those birds on the wing.
The reverberating report of a rifle came from the direction of the limestone rock, and he felt no doubt that it was meant as a signal to direct him.
It was a shot-gun, as a matter of course, for little use could be found for a rifle in that neighborhood.
I could hear the sharp report of a rifle and the wail of some soul as he paid the penalty for his thieving operations.
Miss Wayne said that while she lay more dead than alive on the river bank, she saw the Hungarians rifle the bodies of dead passengers and cut off their fingers for the purpose of obtaining the rings on the hands of the corpses.
To the west there was a line of rifle pits some two miles back from the river at the farthest point.
The lines of rifle pits at each place extended back from the water at least two miles, so that the garrisons were in reality only seven miles apart.
The camp outside the fort was intrenched, with rifle pits and outworks two miles back on the road to Donelson and Dover.
One morning about daylight I happened to be awake, and, hearing the discharge of a rifle not far off, I looked out to ascertain where the sound came from.
Out of the brush in this hollow stepped the form of a mountaineer with a rifle across his arm.
It was three days later that Billy Gard, squirrel rifle on his shoulder, walked into the clearing about the house of Sam Lunsford, the man who had survived the charge of buckshot in the back of his head.
With every rifle ready for action they pushed open the door.
As the wagon wound along the country road Todd called the special agent's attention to the report of a rifle from a hillside to the right.
Dull monotony succeeded, broken only by the occasional bursting of a shell over the trenches, or the crack of a sharp-shooter's rifle and ping of bullet, startling some too venturesome spectator.
