Davies had a Blissett breech-loading double-barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference

German, French, and English heavy breech-loading guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference

I can find no mention of breech-loading arms before the reign of Henry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

Later invention of the breech-loading rifle largely eliminated this problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

He had a breech-loading double-barreled rifle with him, which fired fulminating balls.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

It is probable that the introduction of breech-loading guns will be proportionally slow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

We would not, however, be understood as condemning breech-loading guns for military service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

"Them new stockings of yours is breech-loading, aint they, Billy?" said an unfeeling volunteer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

Now that breech-loading and slow powders have been introduced, these conditions have been changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference

This time instead of breech-loading rifles, the buffalo hunters possessed new long-range game weapons.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference

"Why, they've two ten-inch breech-loading rifles, and she has between thirty and forty quick firing guns.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference

The danger of cavalry attempting to charge infantry armed with breech-loading rifles was fully illustrated at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

Major Cavelli in Italy and Baron Wahrendorff in Germany independently produced rifled iron breech-loading cannon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference

Numbers of skilled artisans were constantly employed in the manufacture of rifled cannon and breech-loading small arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts: the breech-loading rifle and the British Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-10-31] Reference

Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts; the breech-loading rifle and the British Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Taliban Spreading] Reference

Almost every letter contains the inquiry, "What is the new breech-loading rifle you allude to, and where is it to be had?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference

Continuing, Stephens told me how well he was prepared for emergencies; and he displayed two single-barreled, breech-loading.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference

It is said that the greater number of the military arms made in the United States for Europe are on the breech-loading system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nation in a Nutshell] Reference

A breech-loading carbine, lately brought across to this country from America as the invention of Mr. Sharpe, was patented by a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference

The Pashtun were, he added, excellent marksmen, who could fell the unwary Westerner with a state-of-the-art breech-loading rifle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juan Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not!] Reference

I had one brigade (Walcutt's) armed with breech-loading "Spencer's;" the cavalry generally had breach-loading carbines, "Spencer's" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

At Fort Raleigh, Jamestown, Plymouth, and some other settlements the breech-loading half-pounder perrier or "Patterero" mounted on a swivel was also in use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference

Army has been promptly paid, carefully provided with medical treatment, well sheltered and subsisted, and is to be furnished with breech-loading small arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

In his journey to town he had been alone, and between one station and another he had opened his portmanteau and taken therefrom a small breech-loading revolver and a stiletto.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

II line 6: presumably you mean 'breech-loading' rifles?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Republic - All Feed] Reference

So far as I could see, they were armed with breech-loading rifles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

Lying in their covert, Whitley's men reloaded their breech-loading rifles and again sent in a deadly fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rock of Chickamauga A Story of the Western Crisis] Reference

Krupp and Armstrong each designed breech-loading mechanisms and fitted their guns with both rifled and smooth-bore barrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference