Cartridges

Examples

• In the Mannlicher gun, adopted by the German army, the clip which holds the cartridges is itself inserted into the magazine, along with the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had seen them shot and left to swell beside the road, nobody bothering to do more than strip them of their cartridges and their valuables. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• One night he built a fire in the grate and started to throw pistol cartridges into the flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A spring within the magazine fed the cartridges up into alignment with the barrel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Modern magazine guns permit twenty-five to thirty shots a minute as single loaders, and besides they hold in reserve five cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Make holes above for your cartridges and attach wires of any length. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• However, we did shoot a number of live ones until Fox ran out of cartridges. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Both of them employed the bolt system as previously embodied in the needle gun, but added to it the magazine principle and changed the method of supplying and feeding the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• From Henry VIII to Cartridges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I shall drink brandy, added Mr. Vincy, emphatically--as much as to say, this was not an occasion for firing with blank-cartridges. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Save thy cartridges and do not talk so much or thou wilt be very thirsty, Sordo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• History of the Breech Loader and Metallic Cartridges. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The single breech-loader is now being succeeded by the magazine gun, by which a supply of cartridges in a chamber is automatically fed into the barrel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The rifle lay beside him and there were three clips of cartridges shining in the sun beside the rifle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• And how many cartridges per rifle? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is handled by two men, one to aim and fire it, the other to feed the cartridges which are held in brass clips of 30 each. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My revolver, cartridges, cloak, a satchel filled with food, your letter to the Eparch. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• A series of three-inch holes twenty feet deep were drilled eight feet apart, about twelve feet back of the ore-bank, and into these were inserted dynamite cartridges. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They make the powder, the cartridges, the firearms; in fact everything of value is produced by the females. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• I want two extra clips and a box of cartridges. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The pain from the pricking of the skin by the needles is exasperating; but when the explosions of the cartridges commence the animal becomes frantic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This has its cartridges arranged in a tube below and parallel with the barrel, and they are fed in a column to the rear by a helical spring as fast as they are used up at the breech. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Here is a rifle and cartridges, Primitivo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Save thy cartridges, Sordo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• To transfer the cartridges to the magazine, the clip with its cartridges is placed above the barrel, and the cartridges forced down out of the clip into the magazine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The infantry under General Taylor was armed with flint-lock muskets, and paper cartridges charged with powder, buck-shot and ball. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Three days rations in addition, in haversacks, and fifty rounds of cartridges, were carried on the person of each soldier. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But there are still four cartridges in the revolver. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Not want use cartridges. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Without doubt these amateur sappers had been working hard, for the trench was dug, the dynamite cartridges placed therein, and the hole filled up. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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