Weapon

Examples

• Oh, I am very glad that your father had the good fortune to obtain a weapon. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• With graceful modesty each gentleman retired a step from the presented weapon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Since then the revolver has become a great weapon in both private and public warfare. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• An evil magistrate, intrusted with power to _punish for words_, would be armed with a weapon the most destructive and terrible. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But this blow was delivered with such violence that the head of the weapon sank deep into the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Riderhood had looked hard at his hands and his pockets, apparently as a precautionary measure lest he should have any weapon about him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had himself picked up the loaded hunting-crop, which was his favourite weapon. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I think that killing a man with an automatic weapon makes it easier. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But the taxation of unimproved property happens at the same time to be a splendid weapon against the slum. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am glad now I only employed the moral weapon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was this weapon which in the Civil War gave proof of the deadly efficacy of the breech-loading magazine gun, and its superiority to the old style military arm. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• For the purposes of the Commission democracy is an inefficient weapon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was a poor weapon, but perhaps the best that he could lay his hands on at the moment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Three of the weapons struck against him, and splintered with as little effect as if they had been driven against a tower of steel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But in many cases victory depends not so much on general vigour, but on having special weapons, confined to the male sex. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All the others stood to their weapons. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• However, private individuals and companies continued to invent and improve, and the civil war in America revolutionised the systems of warfare and its weapons. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They buried their dead, often with ornaments, weapons, and food; they used a lot of colour in the burial, and evidently painted the body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Religious intolerance and moral accusations are the natural weapons of the envious against the leaders of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In a flash the operator switched on the current and the two men stood as if transfixed, hanging desperately to their weapons that were held aloft as by some giant’s hand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Colonel plays a good knife and fork at tiffin and resumes those weapons with great success at dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In recent great battleships four turrets are used, each carrying three of these great guns, giving a broadside of twelve of these monster weapons of war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If I once placed myself publicly in the wrong, I put the weapons at once into Sir Percival's hands. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The shotgun and rifle, the familiar weapons of the sportsman and the foot-soldier, are not the ancestors of the cannon, as might be surmised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Since they try to frighten wild animals or their enemies by shrieks, beating of gongs, brandishing of weapons, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Its path was marked by scattered weapons and war material, abandoned transport, and the dead and dying. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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