Then Mr. Smoothbore rose, and was some time about it.
One could scarcely expect Mr. Weasel to advance so large a sum as was required, without security; and he did communicate with Mr. Smoothbore as soon as he had satisfied himself upon that score.
Is it true, I wonder, that the little traitress is going to marry that dull, heavy fellow whom Smoothbore had such work to pump?
Every body tittered at this except Mr. Smoothbore and his solicitor; even the judge blew his nose.
Smoothbore and Balais get all there is between them, confound them!
A most innocent and charming occupation, I am sure, and one whichSmoothbore will make the very most of.
It was Mr. Smoothbore who could now best afford to praise the innocence and candor of the unhappy Harry.
How prettily Smoothbore would treat the subject, if it chanced to come in his way!
You are young and good-looking yourself, too; Smoothbore will make something of that, you may depend upon it.
It took position on a rise of ground and began firing, but the guns were but smoothbore six-pounders and the ammunition was ghastly bad.
Two thirds of us will have to manage, until we can do better, with the smoothbore and even with the old flintlock.
I took the smoothbore because it shot a bullet very well; and my experience has been that a round ball from a smoothbore is quite as effective against a lion as an express bullet.
They were armed with smoothbore muskets (date 1851), quite new; and their bayonets, barrels and locks were quite bright and clean.
He went hunting with this gun for a good many years, but he had never shot anything with it, when his uncle gave him a smoothbore rifle, and he in turn gave his gun to my boy, who must then have been nearly ten years old.
He was partly masked in the woods and the smoothbore muskets of our regiment could not reach him.
The buckshot from our smoothbore muskets flew too thickly for him, and he recoiled in astonishment.
That they must have heard the roar of the smoothbore and the whip-like crack of my Deckhard was not to be doubted.
Our admiration for the smoothbore and its wholesale tactics was beyond expression.
Even as he turned his smoothbore banged away and half a dozen buckshot rained through the branches over my head.
Again the smoothbore roared and a handful of balls scoured another thicket.
Both smoothbore and rifled guns are in general use.
That all their firearms have not been obtained from this source is probable from the fact they have still in their possession a number ofsmoothbore percussion guns, double and single barreled, of Russian manufacture.
The War Department is proceeding with the conversion of 10-inch smoothbore guns into 8-inch rifles by lining the former with tubes of forged steel or of coil wrought iron.
But before the gunner depressed a smoothbore below zero elevation, he had to put either a wad or a grommet over the ball to keep it from rolling out.
Iron shot for the smoothbore was a solid, round shot, cast in fairly accurate molds; the mold marks that invariably show on all cannonballs were of small importance, for the ball did not fit the bore tightly.
The smoothbore Columbiads could penetrate only 13 inches, while from this range the ponderous mortars could hardly hit the fort.
In any event, this projectile was one of the most effective ever used in the smoothbore against earthworks, buildings, and for general bombardment.
Parrott siege gun, converted Rodmans, and the 15-inch Rodman smoothbore were finally pushed out of the picture by new steel guns.
Smoothbore did not return his gaze; he was still looking intently at the top of the hill, where he could see a flag-staff and the figure of a man.
Smoothbore seems to take them seriously, and I think Herbert is coming to think the same way.
Smoothbore was struck by the transparent candour of the man and his quixotism.
Evidently Smoothbore desired to make no reference to the interview of the preceding day.
Paper-collar was an officer down below, and he and Smoothbore were pals.
Smoothbore made no comment on this, but asked, "Would you arrest them now?
Our lives don't figure in this proposition," and once again Smoothbore smiled.
Perhaps," replied Smoothbore as he glanced at the Dome.
Almost within a minute after Smoothbore had left him he was wavering in his opinions; now he was striding in pursuit of him.
As he climbed the hog's-back to Lookout Point he saw the tall military figure ofSmoothbore in front of him.
Meanwhile, Smoothborecontinued writing his report to Ottawa, telling of his suspicions, and explaining his action, or want of action.
Smoothbore had small hopes of securing any number of recruits from the civilian population.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smoothbore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
