"Reload" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one clip, reload, and then give them the bayonet!" he ordered. "Shove them off the steps and then ...
— Uller Uprising • Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
... nasty one," replied Captain Langless, as he coolly proceeded to reload his pistol. "I might have killed him in the cave, only ...
— The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes • Arthur M. Winfield
... latter event was attributable his undoing, for it permitted Billy Byrne to close with him before the Indian could reload his antiquated weapon. Down the two men went, the American on top, each striving for a death-hold; but in weight and strength and skill the Piman was far outclassed by the trained fighter, a part of whose daily workouts had consisted ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... dispatch-boat approaching. As soon as she came within range, the guerrillas directed their fire against her, to which the latter replied briskly from two guns mounted on her forecastle. The leader of the rebels was constantly in view, cheering on his men, and discharging his rifle as fast as he could reload. Frank fired several shots at him, and finding that, as usual, they were without effect, he asked the captain's permission to try a howitzer on him, which was granted. He ran below, trained the gun to his satisfaction, and waited for an opportunity to fire, during which the dispatch-boat ...
— Frank on the Lower Mississippi • Harry Castlemon
... Presently guns fired, the drums beat, and as we drew nearer we perceived the Turkish flags leading a crowd of about a hundred men, who approached us with the usual salutes, every man firing off ball cartridge as fast as he could reload. My men were already with this lot of ragamuffins, and this was the ivory or slave trading party that they had conspired to join. They were marching towards me to honour me with a salute, which, upon close approach, ended by ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker
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