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They were inside of the cabin, and managed to keep the savages at a safe distance by firing at them through the crevices whenever they came within rifle-shot. The Indians kept riding in a circle around the cabin for several hours, and, finding they could not dislodge the three brave men, they abandoned the attempt, after losing one of their ponies, which received a rifle-bullet in his foreleg.
A few miles and a few hours more it was the most he could hope for. All at once his dull ears heard the zin-n-ng of a rifle-bullet close to his head; and almost immediately, as he ducked and rolled upon his back, the sinister shriek of another ball made it plain that he was the game aimed at. Two smart cracks at some distance indicated the location of the marksman.
But what's become of so-and-so? He died on the march through Lombardy. And so-and-so? Killed by a mitrailleuse at Monte Croce. And my friend so-and-so? He died of a rifle-bullet, in the hospital at Verona. And the fellow who sat next to me in class? HE died of cholera in Sicily. Enough enough!
La Salle hardly dared trust his voice, but Orloff uttered his well-known halloo; and of the four who were gathered in that dwelling of ice, the most cheerful and kindly, was he whose dead enemy lay gazing with stony eyeballs at the wintry skies, amid a golgotha of animal butchery, with the dark impress of a rifle-bullet in the centre of his forehead.
The Mayor was slightly ruffled; the diplomatic touch smoothed him down. "My money is on you, Mr. Mayor, when it comes to stopping a Boer with a rifle-bullet at four hundred yards. By the way, I have a little confidence to repose in you. When you meet as I am convinced you will meet Dr.
It depends entirely on how it strikes the mind, whether you shall go off a thousand miles to the right or a thousand miles to the lefn You know, if you fire a rifle-bullet at an iron-coated ship, the bullet, if it impinge upon the iron plate at A, may glance away to the west, while if it impinge upon the iron plate at B, only an inch distant from A, it may glance off towards the directly opposite point of the compass.
Thus, you see, the gold does not feel heavy, being equally distributed, and it does not show, as it would if carried in a heap besides, it forms a sort of armour though I fear it would not resist a rifle-bullet!" "Waugh!" exclaimed Big Otter, with an intelligent look. "As to the diamonds, they are not bulky. I have concealed them in an under-belt round my waist."
They were the most curious because, to use the last word one associates with trenches, they are the most beautiful. We started for the trenches of the Vosges from a certain place close to the German border. It was so close that in the inn a rifle-bullet from across the border had bored a hole in the café mirror. The car climbed steadily.
One on 'em'd sit down in front of that there, and howl all day and all night before he'd make up his mind to scratch at the brush." "How'd he guess at a trap?" "Oh, they're laid on kind o' reg'lar, and he'd smell the b'ar too, and he'd know it was somethin' more than ordinary. There's jest one thing they ain't cunnin' enough for, and that's a rifle-bullet.
Kittiwynk was edging her way out of the scrimmage, whisking her stump of a tail with nervous excitement. "Ho! They've got it," she snorted. "Let me out!" and she galloped like a rifle-bullet just behind a tall lanky pony of the Archangels, whose rider was swinging up his stick for a stroke.
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