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ammunition-boots

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  • Sometimes he would picture himself trampling the life out of the man, with heavy ammunition-boots, and at others smashing in his face with the butt, and at others jumping on his shoulders and dragging the head back till the neckbone cracked.

    Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Sometimes he would picture himself trampling the life out of the man, with heavy ammunition-boots, and at others smashing in his face with the butt, and at others jumping on his shoulders and dragging the head back till the neckbone cracked.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I hoped that the absurdity of this would check Ortheris; but he had kicked off his ammunition-boots and got rid of his tunic almost before I had loosed my shirt-collar.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I hoped that the absurdity of this would check Ortheris; but he had kicked off his ammunition-boots and got rid of his tunic almost before

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • After reflecting vainly for a few moments how this was to be attained, he suddenly bethought him of his thick-soled ammunition-boots.

    Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare John Richardson 1824

  • On parade he saw it for what it was -- a mob of knock-kneed, sniffling lads with just enough strength to suck a cigarette; anaemic clerks, fat cooks, and loafers with just enough wind to last a furlong march; huge beery old mechanics and ex - "Tommies," forced into this coloured galley as a condition of their "job at the works"; and the non-native scum of the city of Gungapur -- which joined for the sake of the ammunition-boots and khaki suit.

    Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

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