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1. She didn't dare rifle thru everything on that first trip, but she took a quick look in the box while on the toilet and found the maps but nothing that stood out as a cargo receipt
2. One held a rifle in her hands
3. The rifle never shook
4. That is, until the rifle began to drip
5. He raised a rifle in the air, an ancient Kalishnakov from the days of the founders, and threw his head back and rattled the whole clip into the sky
6. He put his rifle against the wall by the door and turned to me
7. The dull thwack of a rifle butt in a stomach
8. It took terrible seconds for my brain to switch into survival mode; long enough for Robbie to march forward and side swipe me with the butt of his rifle
9. He motioned us forward with his rifle
10. Robbie walked into the room carrying his rifle
11. He returned my gaze for a moment, hefted his rifle, and once again walked out of the room without saying another word
12. She got up and went inside and grabbed two windbreakers and a rifle from the mantle over the back door
13. As she came out onto the back porch, Daniel reached for the rifle as naturally as if he was reaching for the windbreaker
14. He heard movement behind him, and as he turned, he reached for the rifle he had laid on a crate
15. when the tin soldiers come with rifle butts,
16. He took a rifle from his trunk, rested it across his shoulder and walked south along the tracks
17. Would you call Millsboro Police and report a man carrying a rifle along the tracks, south of Chicken House and north of the switch point? Our friend is sleeping here tonight and I think the prowler's up to no good
18. Brownie swung down and hit Joseph with the hose, hard enough to knock the rifle from his hands and him to the ground
19. He grabbed the rifle up and chambered a round
20. He sidestepped the rifle and left it laying on the ground
21. had been a particularly good shot with a rifle in the Army
22. forward, Tom grabbed a magazine and loaded the rifle with a
23. Lising had pumped her contact to the point of paying her to rifle Tahlmute’s records looking for shonggot and gotten nothing for it but a few irons of reduction in her pouch
24. The rifle fired and through the air spun a rope
25. Dom opted for a Savage model 11 hunting rifle in a 380 round with a four plus one box magazine
26. Dom reloaded his rifle with five more rounds
27. It was Dom, rifle in hand and ridiculous broadsword strapped across his back
28. Patrick’s rifle shot had blown off the back part of the chief’s foot, septicemia had set in within hours and by the end of the next day he was too weak to move
29. The approaching soldier seemed satisfied that Nate meant no harm and he lowered his rifle
30. She held her revolver in hand, spinning its wheel again and again, while Demilan sat next to her, counting what remaining bullets he had to use with his Skyla rifle
31. The rifle pressed harder against the back of my head, reminding me again to remove my hand from my knife
32. As our ratings rowed us closer to the shore the rifle fire became fiercer it was pinging off the boats or buzzing overhead and we watched as a lot plopped into the water I saw this but felt as though I was somewhere else it was most strange
33. I knew I needed to quickly get my breath back so I took a deep breath of air and pushed forward all the way upright whilst Elijah held on to my pack and helped me to stand however both my kit rifle and myself were soaked
34. As I was cleaning my rifle my stomach churned over and I leant over to one side and threw up I suppose it was both fright and nerves that was causing this but I can honestly say that I had never been as scared in my life
35. ” Elijah looked up from cleaning his rifle and replied
36. My rifle had one of the new orthoptic sights fitted to it and I sighted on an olive tree in the distance just to get my eye in
37. I had a cup of water closed my pack pulled my rifle into my shoulder and took up my vigil once more
38. “Look to your front here come some more of the buggers don’t let them get the well!” I could see him aiming and firing ever so calmly with a rifle that must have belonged to poor Fred Elliot and that he must have dropped when he was hit
39. Handling it rather like a soldier would handle an assault rifle, he dropped the rear handle onto his boot, loosened the chuck at the business end and dropped a shiny, black drill bit into it
40. ” Arnolds face went white as the Sergeant pointed his rifle at him and told him
41. I will be back in half an hour to inspect them and woe betides any man who presents me with a dirty rifle because his feet will not touch and he will be on field punishment for the duration
42. I had just oiled and put my rifle back together Elijah having finished minutes before but he was not as fastidious as me with his cleaning he handed me a smoke which I lit
43. Men fell down where they stood and lay as if dead on the ground the fatigue finally getting too much for them and only kicks from boots or prods from rifle butts would get them warily to their feet more dead than alive
44. We had dropped our packs and the rest of our equipment and were only attacking in rifle order
45. I had never felt pain like it and I thought that I might faint for it felt like someone had poured hot coals onto my open wound and tears sprang to my eyes as sweat broke out on my forehead as I bit down on my rifle strap to stop me screaming like a girl
46. I hear something and pull my rifle into my shoulder ready to fire but I relax as I realise that it is only a sentry coughing our nerves are stretched as tight as a drum and there is no better laxative known to man than being in front of the Turkish trenches
47. It seems their new OC who has just been made up to Major knows all about your prowess with a rifle and has asked for you,” What he had just said left me completely mystified because to my memory I didn’t know any Fusilier Captains or Majors
48. I looked at the rifle in front of me with reverence it was a German Mauser a 7
49. “Pass me the rifle you have been carrying around” and he undid the blanket that was wrapped round the Mauser and passed it to me
50. I padded the blanket up and used it to rest the rifle on we were in a small stand of bush at right angles to where I thought the sniper would appear
1. the corner and looked as though it had been rifled
2. The farmers rifled through both men’s clothes, but
3. He went to the box now on his floor and rifled though the files
4. The poor wretches soon appropriated everything, but unfortunately they applied this permission universally, and on subsequent marches, when the men laid their packs by the roadside to collect later, they frequently found them rifled
5. as he rifled through the purse
6. He rifled through the Pole’s pockets
7. 61 And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their
8. He rifled through Harry’s trouser pockets and pulled out a fold of fifties
9. 61 And they hanged the infants about their necks and rifled their houses and killed them that had circumcised them
10. Then he rifled the safe, and gave all the money to the Catholic orphanage
11. King rifled through the pictures
12. wasn't home, and rifled through her nightstand drawer until he
13. Walt rifled through his pack and briefly considered the white wax
14. ” Alberto answered without hesitation unaware that Cortez had already rifled through his drawers
15. 3 Peter at first suggested that the grave had been rifled, that enemies had stolen the body, perhaps bribed the guards
16. Hastily, Mitchell rifled through the purse, and eventually found his name and address on a small piece of paper with the hotel letterhead
17. Surely, within his hoard, Heckler possessed a shaving mirror? Feeling confident she rifled through his collection of oddities until she happened upon a silver, hand mirror
18. The Bible became more interesting as he rifled through the tissue thin
19. It was stupid to feel guilty but Neville felt like a thief in the night as he rifled
20. He shuffled into the kitchen and rifled through a few drawers
21. “Do you remember the names of the kids?” Dart rifled through the desk, looking for a pen and paper
22. Zechariah 14:2 says that the houses will be rifled
23. She reached over to her purse and rifled though the contents
24. rifled through her secret drawer and located her stash of sex toys
25. She stomped the ground forcefully and tried not to curse herself too strongly as she rifled through her imperfections
26. The GTO’s driver, a pro, who’s real name was Angelo Quintano, slid behind the passenger seat of the red Camaro, rifled through the glove box, then paused to remove a plastic bag from his pocket
27. Indeed, upstairs, Vinnie stumbled from his bed and rifled through the small fridge in his office bar
28. He rifled around in his pack, and Kiera walked over to him, curious
29. Stacey opened the refrigerator and rifled through the cupboards
30. Melvin rifled through the shelves, searching for the parts he needed
31. As he went to the phone in the kitchen, Don’s mind rifled through the myriad of frightful possibilities suggested by a call at such an early hour
32. Kneeling, she pulled out her portable file box, set it on the counter and rifled through her various signs for the “Closed Until Further Notice” sign
33. Massie rifled through her clothing rod, eventually pulling out a pristine pair of True Religion jeans, which she instantly paired with a royal purple strapless Tory Burch tunic
34. He rifled through a pile of resumes to find
35. I didn’t turn any lights on, but I could tell the place had been rifled through, as if it had been a robbery gone wrong
36. I then rifled through the chopper in search of supplies and anything that might prove useful
37. she rifled through the fridge
38. After a long, awkward silence, he moved to her side as she rifled through the wardrobe, “I'm sorry, Em, I
39. The doctor rifled through his bag and pulled out a syringe, which he filled from a small vial
40. In short we went on board with the Frenchmen, who, after having ascertained all they wanted to know about us, rifled us of everything we had, as if they had been our bitterest enemies, and from Zoraida they took even the anklets she wore on her feet; but the distress they caused her did not distress me so much as the fear I was in that from robbing her of her rich and precious jewels they would proceed to rob her of the most precious jewel that she valued more than all
41. He made and trimmed the straws while Paul and Annie rifled and plugged them
42. I am convinced that these marks were left by the man who rifled the papers
43. ’ He rifled in a drawer and held out a plastic bag
44. There could be no doubt that Beddington had obtained entrance by pretending that he had left something behind him, and having murdered the watchman, rapidly rifled the large safe, and then made off with his booty
45. The extra width allowed for a firing chamber, slightly larger in diameter than the rest of the rifle’s bore, that tapered smoothly to meet the rifled portion of the barrel
46. The last time he’d spoken to the Captain General, Maigwair had waxed eloquent in his enthusiasm for the full-sized rifled angle-guns Fultyn had designed for the Army of God
47. That meant many guns which would otherwise have been scrapped were likely to find themselves bored out, rifled, banded, and retained for service, instead
48. He’s got maybe eight or nine thousand of the new rifles—the original Dohlaran design, not the one from Saint Kylmahn’s—and a grand total of eleven of the new rifled artillery pieces
49. Their iron armor wouldn’t stand up to Dreadnought’s rifled projectiles, but it was more than enough to resist the thirty-pounder smoothbores which were the ICN’s standard heavy guns
50. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a
1. Multiple guards were posted throughout the basement; all of them had laser rifles
2. The United Order soldiers sprang into action, bringing up their laser rifles and aiming them at Silence
3. He was too close, and they were scrambling all over each other, which helped make their laser rifles practically useless against Big Petey
4. My mind was racing as to what we could do, where had I put the rifles
5. She scanned the interior and ‘saw’ the short-wave radio set; the rifles on the wall; the crossbow; and a well stocked root cellar beneath the floor
6. Practice sessions with rifles and handguns were really just a
7. The two men wrestled a case of rifles
8. around, with one of the rifles from the armoury already in his hands
9. and aimed their rifles along the causeway
10. armed with rifles also opened fire, adding to the noise and confusion,
11. Rifles held ready
12. Ten 22 target rifles and six air rifles
13. Mainly double barreled shotguns but also a smattering of hunting rifles and 22 rimfire semi-auto rifles
14. Shotguns and rifles
15. Beside him there were another three rifles amongst the villagers
16. They all carried assault rifles
17. Their blue eyes constantly scanning their surrounds, rifles held ready
18. ’ He pointed at the rifles
19. Twenty assault rifles would be of great help, would it not?’
20. They were dressed in MTP camouflage and carried the SA80Mk3 assault rifles
21. Instead of rifles they carried tools
22. He suggests employing specialist butterfly death squads to go around armed with big nets and long range rifles
23. As soon as some more make it here we will be pushing on to our next objective so if your rifles have got either sand or water down the barrels clean them now
24. So having listened to the advise me and Elijah sat down then taking our cleaning kits out we started to give our rifles a good clean for after all our lives depended on them
25. ” Having just finished cleaning our rifles and making Charlie feel more at home we stood up just in time to receive the order to move onto our next objective
26. The four troopers quickly fanned out into a covering formation and crouched close to the ground, each of them intently surveying the area around them while holding their rifles ready
27. I needed nothing more and steadying my breathing I pulled the rifles butt close into my shoulder and sighted on him
28. ” I reckoned the Turks had about another three yards to go before they started their charge they hit two hundred yards and I could hear the yell starting in their throats to give them courage I watched as their rifles were fetched up and thrust forward in the classic on guard position
29. “Right you fucking heroes before you start getting carried away with your tales of daring do get your rifles cleaned
30. Then the image changes to Charlie appearing as we were cleaning our rifles after the landing and him playing hell because we hadn’t waited for him
31. As soon as the bombardment finished the whistles went and we set off on our country ramble with our rifles and bayonets held at high port
32. We started cleaning our rifles for the hundredth time and we had just finished tying rags round the breech to try to keep the dust out when the midday rations arrived
33. “Stand to grab your rifles come on get the fucking lead out
34. Standing in the trench later on waiting for the off we were dressed just in shirts trousers and boots and carrying only our rifles with spare clips of ammo in our pockets three of the patrol were carrying jam tin bombs and both Lieutenant Smith and Sergeant Wallace were carrying pistols
35. He Eli and Johnny were carrying the bombs in our group while Nobby Clarke me and another lad had the rifles to provide them covering fire when they chucked their bombs
36. ” Me and Nobby Clarke are now covering them with our rifles in case the sentries get nosy as Elijah, Johnny and Eli crawl over
37. “Right you little heroes get off for your well earned sleep but make sure you clean those rifles first and don’t you forget oh and by the way well done”, and he smiled at us as he dismissed our little band
38. We could see their rifles hanging down from the rear of their saddles encased in holsters and their scabbard sabres hanging down the front near their knees waiting to be drawn when they charged
39. We lurched along now weighed down with our equipment our rifles slung by our sides and our boots echoing off the pave
40. Beside the sixty pound pack we carried our rifles and ammunition pouches, rolled up greatcoat, entrenching tool, waterproof groundsheet as well as countless other bits and pieces of equipment
41. We awoke early the next morning and made our way back outside into the still dark morning air and then we walked down the road kitbags and rifles slung
42. Marksmen like me carried rifles while some of the men had pistols and bombs and a few were carrying home made coshes with which to subdue the prisoners with
43. But then all hell let loose as machine guns and rifles began firing and we began to give covering fire as the bomber s threw there bombs
44. I was shocked and in that time as I my hand poised in midair Smith took off back to our trenches red, white and blue lights shot into the air and machine guns and rifles began to strafe the position where we lay
45. It was fucking chaos as explosions went off near us and then the rifles and machine guns fired in our direction flares whooshed up lighting up the sky and ground below them
46. He was caked in chalky dust this stuck like glue to you clothing and put a grimy film over your skin if you added the smoke and burnt powder from our rifles and bombs then you ended up with grimy chalky white looking soldier
47. I told Sam to get ready as night was now setting in fast I told him we would leave everything to the wounded apart from a water bottle apiece a couple of packets of cigarettes and our rifles and ammunition as we needed to travel light and fast
48. I lit another fag and then suddenly it came to me I stripped a rifle sling off one of the rifles I would fasten one end of this to Sam’s wrist and then lead him behind me like a child
49. Though if I hadn’t had the hood on I would have seen Lt Harrington slash his swagger stick down as the rifles discharged their rounds on the way to the target
50. They choose not to confiscate the unloaded rifles that returning troops carry
1. ' Grinning, he lifted a finger for emphasis, then rifling a drawer beneath the window at the back he produced a photograph of himself with a priest
2. He would stare at the murmuring sea for hours at a time, lost in the many faces looking back - including his own - and rifling through memories both pleasant and horrifying
3. ” Helen had finished her sentence and Kate was trembling and rifling off a series of questions, one after the other
4. ” He returned to crouch over the dead man and, while Elizabeth watched, he began rifling through the pockets of his jacket, turning up the man’s army paybook, some snapshots that Colling consciously did not look at closely, a worn Wehrmacht-issue Polish phrase book and a tattered Esso map of Poland
5. Frustrated, I began rifling through some other stuff in
6. She started rifling through her backpack
7. She started rifling through her pack
8. After some time, Mitchell watched a barrage of rifling shots surpass his head for singles in the middle innings
9. Heavy metal dustbin lids, essential against rifling hyenas, were like gold dust when Figgy invented the most effective dove trap in the entire history of dry places
10. The bullets matched the rifling of the barrel so perfectly they slid virtually frictionless inside it while maintaining the gas tight fit of an air bearing
11. “The theory is that the rifling in the barrel of each gun,” she
12. The thought of rifling through Aaron’s
13. Without waiting for an answer, Nora dashed into Lucia’s wardrobe and started rifling through the clothes
14. No more rifling
15. Rifling through his father’s closet and picking out a few of his nicer shirts and pants, he then drove to the four-star Excelsior Hotel in downtown Provo and reserved the presiden-tial suite on the 14th floor
16. Continuing his rifling through papers and reading and signing off others, the Chief Secretary simply said: “Yes Roger
17. I’d say I’d walked in and found Callie McCallister’s boyfriend rifling through my stuff
18. Relentless loved apples, what horse didn’t, but this! What kind of a mountain demon sneaks into a warrior’s camp in the dark of the night to feed the warrior’s warhorse apples and engage on rifling through the warrior’s saddlebags without taking anything from them?
19. Talaric looked up from the pile of scrolls he was rifling through at the sound of pounding on the walls of the alcove and hallway
20. The scrolls he was rifling through contained all matters of interesting past historical information, but none of it was seemingly relevant to what he needed to know
21. The children went to him like bees to a honeypot, and establishing themselves on each knee, proceeded to captivate him by rifling his pockets, pulling his beard, and investigating his watch, with juvenile audacity
22. Beyond him again, Duncan could look into the vault opposite, which was filled with savages, upturning and rifling the humble furniture of the scout
23. In choppy English, the officer told them that the crewmen had been rifling through the captives’ wallets, which had been confiscated when they came on board
24. We’ll have to cast our projectiles with the same grooved bases and fit them with a seal, after all, but Brother Sylvestrai suggested we could still dispense with the rifling studs the heretics rely on if we used a wrought-iron skirt or shoe the same diameter as the shell but stamped around its rim to take the rifling
25. I suppose you’d call it ‘pre-rifling,’ and his idea was to combine the seal and the rifling in a single shoe
26. On the other hand, it’s enough softer than wrought iron that it should expand into the shallower rifling grooves we’re using without the need for the pre-rifling Brother Sylvestrai’s suggested or the heretics’ studded shell bodies
27. It shapes and regulates them, and I suspect the reason is to impart a spin to the entire rocket, the way rifling grooves spin and stabilize a bullet or an artillery shell
28. Its rifling was more precise than anything even Taigys Mahldyn’s shops could have cut, the barrel lining was chrome plated, the stock was precisely tailored to his height and reach, and the cartridges in its magazine—loaded with a smokeless propellant centuries in advance of anything pre-Merlin Safehold could have produced—drove its massive bullets at well over two thousand feet per second, with a muzzle energy of better than five thousand foot-pounds
29. Despite their rifling, her guns were still muzzleloaders
30. I was rifling through the victim’s clothes, finding not a scrap of ID, when Claire Washburn, my closest friend and San Francisco’s chief medical examiner, walked through the door
31. Tom, rifling through a stack of file cards, barely looks up when the twelve jurors and two alternates solemnly take their positions
32. I’ll look for rifling patterns back at the lab, but I have to tell you ahead of time—these puppies have some pretty tough jackets on them
33. He was rifling through the nightstand when I heard
