Bullets

Examples

• 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.
• The shining Bull's Eye of the Court was gone, or it would have been the mark for a hurricane of national bullets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I commend it very specially to your attention, Lestrade and also the bullets which fit it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• In that moment only the bullets talked clearly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• At all events the bullets of the enemy whistled by thick and fast for a short time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The French bullets mowed them down, and the French sailors bounded over their prostrate bodies straight for the village gate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Puckle's Celebrated Breech-Loading Cannon Patent, and Christian and Turk Bullets. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Our smoke-stack was riddled with bullets, but there were only three men wounded on the boats, two of whom were soldiers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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