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Usage examples of caliber.

An artist of the caliber of Monsieur Boulonnais should be introduced to the Scottish art world in a major city of industry and refinement.

Culverins and demiculverins are long-range guns, painstakingly cast of fine bell bronze and hellishly expensive, designed to use a smaller caliber, lighter-weight ball, to provide finer accuracy at a distance than could any cannon.

While it was practically a foregone conclusion that any man of the requisite caliber would already be a member of the Galaxian Society, the three planets and eight satellites were screened, psiontist by psiontist, to select the two strongest and most versatile of their breed.

The robe and the gavel do notwith rare exceptionsturn middle-level politicians, average lawyers, and ideologically extreme professors into justices of the highest caliber.

Americans for whom she had gone to General Quarters so many times, and who now were free to produce other men of the caliber of those lost ones, men who might now not have to die in midocean 4,000 miles from home, who instead could turn their skill and courage toward some small facet of the colossal task of making and keeping this beautiful and varied earth also a fit and decent place in which free, civilized men can live.

General Jackson carried a Lefaucheux Brevete pinfire revolver, twelve millimeters, which translates to roughly forty-five calibers.

Underneath the case were multiple shelves filled with stacks of ammo, but most of the rounds were half-load wadcutters that would only foul a gun barrel if used too much, and anything live was the wrong caliber, .

Ellie believed in her own work, but the caliber of artists in residence at Kellygnow at any given time was in a different class entirely.

The armory had been a treasure trove of blasters and ammo, with enough different calibers to fit the weapons of each companion.

We passed electrified barbed wire emplacements and tall lookout towers snouted with large caliber machine guns and squat grenade launchers.

Indeed, former inspectors fear that UNMOVIC will never have the same caliber of inspectors that UNSCOM had.

Preliminary reports, according to Morales, indicate a thirty-eight caliber pistol.

There is no one for the Soviets to deal withleaders of sharply deteriorating caliber, beset by democracy, by politics, and doing six-month stints between midterm elections, lame-duck periods, and the informal referenda of American public life.

But Barneys right hand, slid idly into the pocket of his well-tailored coat, was resting on a twenty-five caliber revolver.

Between them there'll be guns in all sorts of different calibers and conditions.