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Usage examples of rifler.

I was soon reconciled to fresh trials, and before morning, nothing on earth could be dearer to me than this rifler of my virgin sweets: he was every thing to me now.

There has been no love lost between the two since Hayne joined the Riflers early the previous year.

And yet it was getting to be whispered around that the Riflers were by no means so unanimous as they had been in their opinion of this very officer.

Rayner and the Riflers generally will regard your calling on their black sheep?

There were many, indeed, who asserted that it was because she found her new position unbearable that she decided on her long visit to the East and departed thither before the Riflers had been at Warrener a month.

It was evident that, though none were prepared to endorse so extreme a view, there was a strong feeling that the colonel had put an affront upon the Riflers by his open welcome to Mr.

Rayner and Miss Travers occasionally spoke of him and his devotion to the men and his bravery at the fire, but rather as though they meant in a general way to compliment the Riflers, not Mr.

Both they and their comrades of the Riflers were assiduous in their attentions to Miss Travers, and other ladies, less favored, made acrimonious comment in consequence.

It was remembered of him that he played the prettiest game of French caroms of all the officers at the station when he joined the Riflers as a boy.

The Riflers have treed them at Battle Butte, and Captain Rayner has gone with his battalion.

From behind the drawers of the wardrobe trunks, the riflers had brought framed canvases.