Carbine

Examples

• He heard the noise of a carbine scabbard slapping loosely and the creak of leather. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Give me the carbine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• As they came up, still deep in the shadow of the pines, after dropping down from the high meadow into the wooden valley and climbing up it on a trail that paralleled the stream and then left it to gain, steeply, the top of a rim-rock formation, a man with a carbine stepped out from behind a tree. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• You have a carbine on your back but it is only good to give away bullets. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He was covered with snow and he stood there holding his carbine and stamping the snow from his feet. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The old man pointed to the seal and the man with the carbine studied it, turning it in his fingers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The only good sign was that Pablo was carrying the pack and that he had given him the carbine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He is no more like flesh and blood than a rusty old carbine is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Do you want a carbine? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I can use dynamite, said the man with the carbine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Just as much as the rusty old carbine I have compared him to. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Andreu Nin stood up and put the carbine above his head, holding it in both hands. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The old man came running toward him, holding his carbine in one hand. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• William Jencks had invented a carbine, and Uncle Sam wanted several thousand guns made in a hurry under the patent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The man with the carbine looked at them both sullenly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A smaller size, called _carbines_, were used by the mounted troops. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A boat was dispatched to the cruiser for provisions, ammunition, and carbines; the men were already armed with revolvers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They were all out of the cave now, standing there with the carbines and with grenades on their belts. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His new men were standing in a group by themselves leaning on their carbines. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Remington took over the contract and the machinery, added to his power, secured by putting in another water race, erected the building now known as the Old Armory, and made the carbines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Their carbines were clipped to the frame of the bicycles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Four other carabinieri stood near the questioning officers, leaning on their carbines. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Typed by Clarissa