Then, in 1855, England's Lord Armstrong designed a rifled breechloader that included so many improvements as to be revolutionary. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
Yet its only luxury was the bottom of a breechloader brass cartridge, inlaid and flanked by the sharp incisors of the little Wabar, or mountain coney. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
“The weapon is a most formidable one, it is admirably constructed, and equipped for service, and will, I doubt not, produce, if brought into action, effects almost as astonishing as those of the breechloader, and cause a general impatience to be possessed of the new arm.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Gun] Reference
No. 12 smoothbore, the first breechloader I ever had, I started. From Wordnik.com. [Long Odds] Reference
Bertoldo magazine rifle, Russia the Berdan breechloader, Turkey the. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7] Reference
"Yes, a breechloader -- a Purdey he called it, and a bag of cartridges.". From Wordnik.com. [Middy and Ensign] Reference
But I tell you what acts best, only you can't do it with a breechloader. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco] Reference
It tells of lost opportunities such as the early breechloader invented by John H. Hall. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Ring] Reference
He took his place near the cabin, where the women were slumbering, with his breechloader in hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Fugitives A Tale of Life and Adventure in India Including also Many Stories of American Adventure, Enterprise and Daring] Reference
And a beautiful piece of workmanship it was: my new double breechloader is a coarse common thing to compare with it. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Poacher] Reference
A motion to "Hay," who held the firing lanyard, and almost instantly came the sharp, vicious report of the breechloader. From Wordnik.com. [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference
The Honourable, when he went over the farm with his breechloader, invariably came in and drank a glass of the small beer. From Wordnik.com. [Hodge and His Masters] Reference
Yet its only luxury was the bottom of a breechloader brass cartridge, inlaid and flanked by the sharp incisors of the little. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference
There are no stories now of stags a century old (three would go back to Queen Elizabeth); they have gone, like other traditions of the forest, before steam and breechloader. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
A moment later Number Eight went into action once more, and we worked the breechloader without cessation until the conclusion of the bombardment, which came a half hour later. From Wordnik.com. [A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"] Reference
He enjoyed no luxurious education -- luxurious in the sense of scientifically arranged dormitories, ample meals, and vacations to be spent on horseback, or with the breechloader. From Wordnik.com. [Hodge and His Masters] Reference
The weapon came as near to absolute perfection as possible, It was perfect in action, durable and excellent in every respect even in it's conversion to the breechloader it is still one of the best weapons. From Wordnik.com. [James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.]
The English country gentleman who now holds something the same position socially as the knight, is not a sportsman till he can use the breechloader with terrible effect at the pheasant-shoot, till he can wield the salmon-rod, or ride better than any Persian. From Wordnik.com. [Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies] Reference
There is a brisk trade in ammunition for the breechloader, and so keen is the desire to secure and supplement the supply that solid-drawn brass cartridge-cases, which admit of being used over and over again, with boxes of caps and sets of reloading apparatus, are now in brisk demand. From Wordnik.com. [Persia Revisited] Reference
In the case of quick-firing guns it is certain that the breechloader is alone the right construction; but in our heaviest guns, which have a bore of 30.5 centimetre, and require three to four minutes to load, the advantage of quick-firing is not apparent, for here everything depends upon accurate aim, so that the heavy projectile may hit the right place. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Conquest of England] Reference
A Purdey breechloader, and he uses Eley cartridges. From Wordnik.com. [Middy and Ensign] Reference
" As all of you will no doubt have noticed, it is a breechloader. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
With a large nomad and semi-nomad population of warlike and predatory instincts, almost every man of whom lays by money most diligently, bit by bit, for the purchase of a breechloader and cartridges, it is obvious that the interests of Government call for the strongest check to the foreign trade in arms; but it may be taken for granted that so long as the Customs are farmed out on the present system the supply will be passed in to meet the demand. From Wordnik.com. [Persia Revisited] Reference
The professor's rifle was a breechloader. From Wordnik.com. [Blown to Bits or, The Lonely Man of Rakata] Reference
"Not a breechloader?" said Bob. From Wordnik.com. [Middy and Ensign] Reference
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