Bullet

Examples

• I'll go like a bullet, _by_ Jove! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Be careful with that money and that bullet on the string. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I felt the wind of his bullet as it whizzed past my ear, and at the same instant I saw him crumple to the ground. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The bullet hit a rock and ricocheted with a sharp whine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I suppose, Doctor, you have not recovered the bullet which wounded the lady? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It had a bullet hole through it and every one had always joked at him for keeping it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The last word went like a bullet to my heart. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The bare sight of me was like a bullet through his guilty heart. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is an established axiom, that 'every bullet has its billet. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I looked, and there, sure enough, was the bullet mark! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• To give additional protection sand bags, bullet-proof, were placed along the tops of the parapets far enough apart to make loop-holes for musketry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bullet had passed through the front of her brain, and it would probably be some time before she could regain consciousness. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I hope to put a bullet into the man whom that belongs to. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He was hit low in the back of the neck and the bullet had ranged upward and come out under the right eye. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The bullet striking the wooden casing of the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the wood and masonry. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If both had owned plantations in Louisiana, they would have been as like as two old bullets cast in the same mould. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• You have noticed that their bullets explode when they strike an object? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You have a carbine on your back but it is only good to give away bullets. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It then consisted of a comparatively thin shell filled with bullets, having a fuse lit by the firing of the gun, and adapted to explode the shell in front of the object fired at. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Sixteen leaden bullets, of an ounce each, weigh as much in water as one of a pound, whose superfices is less. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• These would explode, and I was twice hit by the bullets, which left a black-and-blue mark. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Arrows and bullets flew thick and fast. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• To save bullets,' I said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In two cases, as I now remember, colonels led their regiments from the field on first hearing the whistle of the enemy's bullets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The bullets alone are enough to put his head in a noose. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The bullets hit the road surface and sung off and now they were pinging and clanging in the iron of the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There was not one of these left standing unpierced by bullets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And if he would have dropped thee he could soon have been out of range of the bullets. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Five harpoons and one hundred and fifty-one bullets were used in subduing the monster, and it took five days to finally kill it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Edited by Francine