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Updated: June 2, 2025
One of those impressive red caps arrived in a car, and the general who wore it went slowly up and down the line, front and rear, examining rifles and equipment, while the young officers and the old sergeant were hoping that Jones or Smith hadn't got some dust in his rifle-barrel at the last moment.
He was the first to close, his wild cry for vengeance piercing the still night; and before I knew it, the maddened savage was within the guard of my rifle-barrel, and we were locked in the stern grapple of death.
"Is that thy business?" he snarled, shifting his rifle-barrel to the other hand. "I am what she says I am! She used to call me 'Chikki' the Lifter! and I was! There are those who were made to know it! If she says now I am badragga, shall any say she lies?" "I say thou art unpacker of mules' burdens!" answered King. "Begin!"
While Judith visualized just what had occurred, saw the tall man he must have been tall for his boot toes to scratch the earth yonder while his rifle-barrel lay for support across the boulder in front resting his gun and firing down into the cañon Lee was back at her side, saying shortly: "What do you think? There's a plain trail up here, old as the hills, but tip-top for speedy going."
It might be natural, or it might be a space cut away for the swing of a rifle-barrel. Perhaps sitting up there snugly behind a bullet-proof shield fastened to the limbs was a German sharpshooter, watching for a shot with the patience of a hound for a rabbit to come out of its hole. "It's about time we gave that tree a spray good for that kind of fungus, from a machine-gun!"
We may only know that she plucked the weapon of lower-class London from her hat, and jabbed at the pale face viciously, and heard the victim say "Owch!" as he winced, and knew herself, as her Slabberts gripped the rifle-barrel, and wrested it with iron strength from the failing hands of W. Keyse, the equal of those dauntless Boer women who killed men when it was necessary.
In a moment he was on his feet, and in the darkness of the room there was the gleam of a rifle-barrel. He came back to the window watching. He saw the canoe approach the bank. He heard the thud of the paddle as it was thrown upon the ground. In the gloom, to which his eyes were accustomed, he saw a man step from the boat to the shore and draw the canoe up.
We might snare a live gorilla, and there is not a gorilla in the zoological gardens of Europe." "A gorilla!" said Venning, thinking of a picture he had seen of an erect man-ape bending a rifle-barrel into an arch as if it were a cane. "A gorilla!" said Compton. "I should like to find the Garden of Rest." "You have heard his story, Mr. Venning?" said the hunter, nodding his head at Compton.
"Hans Coetzee," he said, "go and arrest that man." Poor Hans hesitated, as well he might. Nature had not endowed him with any great amount of natural courage, and the sight of his old neighbour's rifle-barrel made him feel positively sick. He hesitated and began to stammer excuses.
Every scalp-lock was neatly braided and oiled; every crown shaven; every knife and war-axe and rifle-barrel glimmered silver bright under the industrious rubbing; flints had been renewed; with finest priming powder pans reprimed; and now all my Indians squatted amiably together in perfect accord, very loquacious in their guarded voices, Iroquois, Mohican, and Stockbridge, foregathering as though there had never been a feud in all the world.
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