Former Wizard

Usage examples of bullet.

If Thaddeus Harmon fell, riddled by bullets, a second before the acetylene light made its exit, the only thoughts of the remaining people would be the fear of death.

Bullets at almost immediate range had barely pierced the tough hide of the alligator they had bagged two nights before.

I ordered a ballistics test against the bullets that hit us, before finding the stolen weapons.

There were a hundred of us or more, but the others either perished under the bastinado, or are to this day chained to an oar in the Imperial Ottoman galleys, where they are like to remain until they die under the lash, or until some Venetian or Genoese bullet finds its way into their wretched carcasses.

And here, reflector fifty-three, bottom slab eighty-eight, top slab with the hole in it for the bullet, eighty, plus the twelve of beryllium, two thirty-three.

Waterline bullet holes were drinking seawater and giving back air, making the sea bubble and bloop drunkenly.

Next to the revolver, a single bullet shone brassily in feeble desk light.

Guilt riddled Bree like bullets piercing paper, leaving big gaping holes in their wake.

The town being considerably damaged by the bombs and bullets of the besiegers, and the garrison despairing of relief, the governor capitulated on the seventeenth day of June, when the city of Louisbourg, and the isle of Cape Breton, were surrendered to his Britannic majesty.

He had reached the roof, gone to another building and descended so promptly, that he was out of hearing range when Bronden fired the bullet that ended the career of Clifford Sulgate.

Lath let loose with his automatic, raking the brushy edge of the clearing with a spray of bullets.

His helmsman had been blown apart by a half-dozen exploding bullets and every man present on the bridge was dead.

On the cover was the stenciled outline of a fire extinguisher spitting bullets through its nozzle.

Even a bullet striking a limb resulted in heart-stopping hydrostatic shock, so in order to escape the savages they would probably have to slaughter the majority of them.

Dougherty reports the operation of lithotomy, in which the calculus removed was formed by incrustations about an iron bullet.