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Sentences ending with rifles

Day before yesterday Shields challenged Butler, who accepted, and proposed fighting next morning at sunrise in Bob Allen's meadow, one hundred yards' distance, with rifles. [7]
Riders seldom used rifles. [13]
You little handful of people here--little more than half a million--imagine that you can defeat thirty-five millions, with an army of half a million, a hundred battle- ships, ten thousand cannon and a million rifles. [11]
So far as I could see, they were armed with breech-loading rifles. [4]
Another thing.--Jameson was encumbered by artillery, ammunition, and rifles. [5]
Hear the rifles! [11]

Short sentences using rifles

Twenty rifles blazed out. [11]

More example sentences with the word rifles in them

To kill people with arrows is barbarous; to kill them with smooth-bores and flintlock muskets is semi-civilized; to kill them with breech-loading rifles is civilized. [4]
On the hummocks were graves, graves marked by wooden crosses, others by broken rifles thrust in the ground. [9]
But Perrot, who was not far from the fallen brothers, suddenly made a dash within easy range of the rifles of the British, and cut Gering and two of his companions off from the main body. [11]
Their new rifles too--and let old Fashode wear his medal! [11]
There was nothing to shoot at but rocks--he knew quite well that there would be nothing to shoot at but rocks--and he knew that artillery and rifles have no effect upon rocks. [5]
We shall have to run the chances of rifles along the shore at a range something short, but we have done that before, at the Barricades, eh, Carbourd? [11]
Some were painting themselves, others cleaning their rifles and sharpening their scalping knives. [9]
The rest fired their rifles as they galloped. [11]
Twenty rifles of the rebels had been stored in the farmhouse, and they were all loaded! [11]
If I had the command of the campaign I would go with rifles only, no cumbersome Maxims and cannon to spoil good rocks with. [5]
All at once the circle had vanished, and the two men were standing not five paces apart with their rifles clutched across their bodies, each watching, catlike, for the other to level. [9]
For our Colonel's strength was not counted by rifles or men alone: he fought with his brain. [9]
Some cleaned their rifles, and others lost themselves in conjectures of the attack. [9]
Bayonets dripped red, rifles were fired at hand-to-hand range, men clubbed their guns and fought as men fought in the days when the only fighting was man to man, or one man to many men. [11]
Some have long rifles of Daniel Boone's time, not fired for thirty years. [9]
With only 2,500 rifles in the place, they stood really no chance. [5]
To find the rifles and prime them seemed to take an age. [9]
I shrieked and ran forward, but the rifles spat out at the moment, and the five men fell. [11]
Rifles, maxims, and pom-poms opened fire upon it. [11]
They carried him out just as he was going to be burned up, in a blanket hung from rifles, and he was in the hospital nine months, and had to come home for a while. [9]
In one corner of the room stood three or four rifles and muskets, together with horns and pouches of ammunition. [5]
A disproportionate share of the Federal muskets and rifles had somehow found their way into these States, and had been seized to be used against the government. [7]
With the best of rifles he would have felt himself at a disadvantage. [11]
Early in the morning of the 28th January, 1881, he moved to the attack "with the 58th regiment, commanded by Colonel Deane, a mounted squadron of 70 men, the 60th Rifles, the Naval Brigade with three rocket tubes, and the Artillery with six guns. [5]
They inspected the martial furnishing of the room: the drum, the pair of rifles, the pistols, in the corner, the sabres crossed on the wall, the gold-handled sword that lay upon the table, and the picture of Napoleon on a white horse against the wall. [11]
They were in marked contrast to the peasant folk with the high-peaked soft hat, knee-breeches, rough tail-coat, and stockings, some with rifles, some with pikes, some with powder-horns slung under their arms or in the small of the back. [11]
The hunters then make their way to this retreat on snowshoes, and from the top of the banks pick off the deer at leisure with their rifles, and haul them away to market, until the enclosure is pretty much emptied. [4]
He risked his life to do that--went right into the camp in face of levelled rifles, and sat down and begun to talk. [11]
A few minutes later he and his men were on board, with their rifles stacked in a corner at Bissonnette's hand. [11]
He stooped and kissed Valmond's hand, as though he thought him still a prince, and not the impostor which the British rifles had declared him. [11]
And while they joked of German boorishness and Yankee cowardice they held rifles across their knees to avenge any insult to the strange banner that they had set up. [9]
Coincident with the increase of these futile extravagances was the increase of his fanatical patriotism, which at last found vent in seditious writings, agitations, the purchase of rifles, incitement to rebellion, and the formation of an armed, liveried troop of dependants at the Manor. [11]
Hats were flung in the air, rifles fired, shouts and curses rose and blended into one terrifying note. [9]
From dying fires here and there Arab sentries sprang to their feet with rifles and lances. [11]
With incredible skill he had passed under the very rifles of his hunters, and now stood almost within the stream of light which came from the window of the sick man's room, where his sister was. [11]
Then there's a hand thrust in, and up goes the sword, and the rifles, pikes, and bayonets; and those that were ready to mutilate or kill each other fall into each other's arms. [11]
Well, the compadre had put blank cartridges in their rifles, and my father pretended to fall dead; and the soldiers were marched away; and my father, with my mother, was carried to his home, still pretending to be dead. [11]
There was a full minute of suspense--perhaps two--during which the very rifles of the fort were silent (though the popping in the weeds was redoubled), and then the barrel of a Deckard was poked through the hole. [9]
The line of backwoodsmen, as fine a lot of men as I ever wish to see, bronzed by the June sun, strong and tireless as the wild animals of the forest, stood expectant with rifles grounded. [9]
We were all armed with revolvers, and we had half a dozen rifles handy. [11]

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