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rifling
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
