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Updated: June 16, 2025
The real Lord Greystoke had not two guns, to be sure, nor even one, neither did he have a smart loader; but he possessed something infinitely more efficacious than guns, or loaders, or even twenty-three beaters in white smocks he possessed an appetite, an uncanny woodcraft, and muscles that were as steel springs.
Don Juan de Austria Small cruiser, completed in 1887, iron, 1,152 tons, 13 to 14 knots, and four 4.7-inch rifles in her main battery. Don Antonio de Ulloa Small cruiser, iron, 1,152 tons. Four 4.7-inch Hontoria guns; two 2.7-inch, two quick-firing; two 1.5-inch; five muzzle loaders.
Wertz was so beautifully turned out in the newest clothes and the loveliest stockings, and he had two loaders and three guns, and Lord Doraine told me that he had killed three pheasants, but the ground was knee-deep in cartridges round him, and Tom was furious, as he likes an enormous bag. So I asked why, if Mr. Wertz was not a sportsman, had he taken the huge Quickham shoot in Norfolk? Then Mr.
The efforts of the French in America from 1604 to 1607 are signalized by the character of their loaders, the nature of their opportunity, and the special causes which prevented them from taking possession of Norumbega. De Monts lacked neither courage nor persistence. His battle against heartbreaking disappointments shows him to have been a pioneer of high order.
At the sound of a horn like the English harvest horn, the pitchers, the loaders, and every labourer on the spot, left their work, and collected around some tree or hay-cock, to receive their noon refreshment. The indispensable fiddle was never wanting.
Ralph's Winchester cracked and the raised arm fell shattered and useless, while the knife dropped from the relaxing fingers. The attacked villagers, inspirited by the assistance they were receiving, fought with renewed energy. In those days repeating breech loaders were much less commonly used than in more recent years. The savages became terror stricken at guns which seemed to be always loaded.
Ralph, to try his Winchester, shot at a blue heron on the wing and made the feathers fly. "Try it again," urged Duff sharply. "Quick now." A second shot brought down the bird, and Ralph's opinion of breech loaders was raised at once. For several hours they pulled up stream, the mate taking his turn at the oars with the others.
From the Volga were wafted the whistlings of steamers, the dull beating of the wheels upon the water, the shouting of the loaders life was moving onward unceasingly and unquestionably. Summoning the waiter with a nod Yakov Tarasovich asked him with peculiar intensity and impressiveness, "How much do I owe for all this?"
Though it seemed that half the day had wheeled by already, by seven o'clock we rode a-field, and the less experienced of us were hard at it, tossing up bundles to the loaders, who placed them swiftly here and there till the waggons were packed tight and piled high. I pitched up bundles from below, to an old man of sixty, who wore a fringe of grey beard, like a Mennonite.
If this is the case where men are armed with spears and swords, it will be much truer when those men are themselves armed with breech loaders. China should never engage in pitched battles. Her strength is in quiet movements, in cutting off trains of baggage, and in night attacks not pushed home in a continuous worrying of her enemies. Rockets should be used instead of cannon.
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