Guns

Examples

• Have you seen such guns? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The Dutch fleet, frozen in the Texel, surrendered to a handful of cavalry without firing its guns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was proposed also to have submarine guns suspended from each bow. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Turning to the right and left he captured several guns and some hundreds of prisoners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These guns for the most part were so heavy that they had to be rested on some object to be fired. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Guns sold better than all other products. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No guns or caissons should be taken with less than eight horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But if people require food, guns require powder, and no powder can be made without nitric acid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There were many more guns in the country around and the spring had come. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Great cast bronze guns of about the same weight as the Hindoo guns were also produced at St. Petersburg, Russia, in the sixteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The roar of the guns at Waterloo and the click of the first power printing press in London were nearly simultaneous. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• We had no siege guns except six thirty-two pounders, and there were none at the West to draw from. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Neither of guns nor of nothing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is this same shock-absorbing device which is used to catch the recoil on the immense siege guns used in modern warfare. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He assembled an army, accumulated guns, and then laid claim to the Punjab, because Timur had conquered it a hundred and seven years before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One battery, the siege guns and all the convalescent troops were sent on by water to Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In Fig. 282 is given a section and plan view of the Greener mechanism, which was patented July 6, 1880, No. 229,604, and was one of the first guns of this kind put on the market. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But there later came a reaction in favor of lighter guns and quick firers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Some of my men were engaged in firing from captured guns at empty steamers down the river, out of range, cheering at every shot. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was well we were not attacked in our march, for our arms were of the most ordinary sort, and our men could not keep the locks of their guns dry. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• As we moved out through the town it was empty in the rain and the dark except for columns of troops and guns that were going through the main street. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• These antique guns were made by welding longitudinal bars of iron together and binding them by iron rings shrunk on while hot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The field guns of the American army are the 3. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• More than once you will find yourself wondering whether there can be guns enough in the world, or fingers enough to press their triggers, to use such a tremendous production of ammunition. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Guns were firing from the field behind the village and the shells, going away, had a comfortable sound. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Military cannon are divided into three classes, based upon the length of caliber, and technically known as guns, mortars and howitzers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• An immediate pursuit must have resulted in the capture of a considerable number of prisoners and probably some guns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• 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.

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