Shooting aid

Usage examples of tripod.

In the center, sitting on a tripod, would be the PRD-1, which was about eighteen inches square and crowned with a diamond-shaped antenna that could be rotated.

Seven tripods never touched by fire, ten bars of gold, twenty burnished cauldrons, a dozen massive stallions, racers who earned me trophies with their speed.

Seven tripods hauled from the tents, as promised, twenty burnished cauldrons, a dozen massive stallions.

In the truest fashion of every light weapon developed by a committee, the procurement system finally developed specifications for the manjacks that transformed them from the original concept of a light, relatively simple automatic weapon on an automated tripod, into a virtual mini-tank.

The Men of the Tusk hacked the screaming penitents into silence, then they kicked over the tripods, smashed the marmoreal altars, tore the tapestries from the walls and the grand kneeling rugs from the floors.

He was erecting the tripod of poles from which the parfleche full of meat would be suspended.

Before its stone feet, brazen tripods sent wavering up the pale green and scented smoke of burnt cinnamon, mingled with white spikenard from far Dolmentus.

She had a sniping rifle on a tripod under their tented tarp, hidden in the shade of a stinkwood tree.

I switched from the shoulder-stock telephoto to the big tripod job, because this was the best part of it.

Pentax and telephoto lens on its tripod and snapping and developing shots of the street.

An iron kettle brought from one of the yet unsubmerged houses hung on an improvised tripod over it, while Liz chopped silvery leaves into chaff and Le Marr studied an array of other vegetation he held fanwise in his hand.

Then the women set the bowl on the ground in the triangle, and divided the remaining lump into five smaller ones, each carefully shaped into a loaf, and laid a tripod of sticks over them, with a tuft of dry bristlegrass atop.

Then as I turned upon my heels with her upon my breast my foot caught upon the cloths still wound about the tripod of the sphere.

He removed a fat-burner from its tripod, dragged the tripod near a massive column that supported a balcony, and rested the bagpipe against it, aiming the muzzle toward the vault of darkness overhead.

The candles were lit and the firepot glowed cheerfully on its tripod in the center of the room.