"Express rifle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... describes several circles; but in two minutes comes to a standstill, unless he "screws," or works his skate, and so renews the impulse. Even at his best he only goes round, and does not raise his weight an inch from the ice. The velocity of a bullet rapidly decreases, and a ball shot from an express rifle, and driven by a heavy charge, soon begins to droop. When these facts are duly considered, it will soon be apparent what a remarkable feat soaring really is. The hawk does not always ascend in a spiral, but every now and then revolves in a circle—a flat circle—and suddenly ...
— The Life of the Fields • Richard Jefferies
... satisfactorily. He received a number of good wishes and not a few gifts. The Tremenheeres sent him an express rifle, the Tebbs a dispatch box, Mrs. Malone gave him a silver cigarette case and a warm rug, Mrs. Galli gave him her blessing, and his mother ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... heard the firing too. Perhaps they also recognised the peculiar sharp "smack" of the Express rifle amidst the others. There was a fresh attack—an ugly rush of reckless men. But the news soon spread that there was firing in the valley and the sound of a white man's rifle. The little garrison plucked up heart, and the rifles, almost too hot ...
— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman
... said ironically, "an express rifle would be better, for who knows but we might meet an ...
— Tarzan the Untamed • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... gun,—or at the most very, very few of them did. If a rogue elephant, a man-eating tiger or a nasty leopard became a public nuisance, it was a case for a sahib to come and doctor it with a .577 double-barreled express rifle, worth $150 or more; and the sahibs ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday |
