"Ramrod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... we are stopped, don't lose a moment. Jump down, and fire one of your pistols at the first robber. Keep the other for a sure aim. One shot is to intimidate, the second to slay. You comprehend? My pistols are in excellent order, I suppose. Lend me the ramrod. So, so! ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... forest was dripping, but there was a noise now of bullet clinking against bullet, of the ramrod sent home in the rifle barrel, and of ...
— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler
... how to push the ramrod like I showed him, so he reached out and tried to hit it with ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... don't require a very vivid one. The worst of it is, she was quite right to feel indignant. The only thing about it all that gave me the smallest relief, was the fact that she didn't do the pathetic. She didn't shed a tear. She simply questioned me. She was as stiff as a ramrod, and as cold as a stone. There was no mercy in her, and no consideration for a fellow's feelings. She succeeded in making out that I was the most ...
— The Lady of the Ice - A Novel • James De Mille
... character of his vessel. She appeared suspiciously full of corn for a boat homeward bound. There was an awkward smell about the closely-boarded forecastle which resembled that of unwashed negroes. Abd-el-Kader drew a steel ramrod from a soldier's rifle, and ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker |
