"Muzzle-loading" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... My old muzzle-loading rifle that we had carried across the Plains lay handy. When the men started toward him, Marden picked up the rifle to show fight and called on the dog Jim to take hold of the men. As he raised the gun to use it as a club, one of the ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker
... repeated Paige. "I understand that it was a double-barreled, muzzle-loading shotgun. ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... could retreat into the cave which now sheltered the RED CLOUD, the attacking natives opened fire. Fortunately they only had old-fashioned, muzzle-loading muskets, and, as their aim was none of the best, there was comparatively little danger. The bullets, however, did sing through the fast-gathering darkness with a vicious sound, and struck the heavy sides and sloping front of the ice cave with a ...
— Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice • Victor Appleton
... and the doctor called the second squad to wheel towards it. The dominie, on the left of the first, saw what was going on below. Revolvers were emptied and clubs brought into requisition. He could not load his old muzzle-loading piece to save his life, but he knew single stick. Two men were tackling the brave old colonel, while a third lay wounded at his horse's feet. The dominie sped down to the road like a chamois, and threw himself upon the man on the colonel's right, the ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... past again at full gallop, Shunan still not quite master of his horse and weapon at the same time, for the long-barreled, muzzle-loading rifle was difficult to manage from the back of a plunging horse. They wheeled and passed yet again; but this time, as they turned, they headed directly toward each other at a ...
— The Junior Classics • Various
... rode away to relieve the first guard, McCann said, "Isn't he a muzzle-loading daisy? If I loved a liar I'd hug ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams |
