"Gunstock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Scotchman was loading his musket as he approached. He limped badly—a gunstock had struck him on the thigh—and he had a flesh wound in his left arm. He anxiously inquired how many we had lost, and when I told him, he shook ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon
... and tramp of feet at the outside door interrupted her. The marauders had come. The door was barred and this having been tested, there was a hail of gunstock blows upon it with orders to open and blasphemous threats as to the consequences of refusal. There was a dead silence within, but for Mrs. Edwards' hollow whisper, "Don't open." With staring eyes and mouths apart the terrified ...
— The Duke of Stockbridge • Edward Bellamy
... hide supersede nails for almost every purpose. It is perfectly marvellous how a gunstock, that has been shattered into splinters, can be made as strong again as ever, by means of raw hide sewn round it and left to dry; or by drawing the skin of an ox's leg like a stocking over it. It is well to treat your bit of skin as though parchment (which see) were to be made of it, burying ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... workbench, planin' things; er buildin' little traps To ketch birds; galvenizin' rings; er graftin' plums, perhaps. Make anything! good as the best!—a gunstock—er a flute; He whittled out a set o' chesstmen one't ...
— Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury • James Whitcomb Riley
... peaks of Gunstock Redden with sunrise fire, And the sky and the purple mountains ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 50, December, 1861 • Various |
