breech-loaders

All wore similar medleys of camouflage, leather and hessian, and carried ageing breech-loaders sporting this or that modification.

The Orphaned Worlds, 1st Draft, 1st Excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

Story calmly inspected his twenty-seven cowboys and bullwhackers, examined their arms and ammunition, equipped each man with one of the new Remington rapid-fire breech-loaders, and started north.

THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

Made of forged steel, and breech-loaders, they ought consequently to be able to bear a considerable charge, and also have an enormous range.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Made of forged steel, and breech-loaders, they ought consequently to be able to bear a considerable charge, and also have an enormous range.

The Mysterious Island 2005

He found also, on touching them that these guns were breech-loaders.

The Mysterious Island 2005

He found also, on touching them that these guns were breech-loaders.

The Mysterious Island 2005

The rockets must have been terror enough, but now they were meeting rapid-fire breech-loaders for the first time, yet still they came on until the Sniders and the Enfields of the Baluch stopped them in their tracks, and they gave back, firing their double-barrelled muskets as they went and being shot down as they tried to find cover among the rocks and scrub oaks.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

There would have been no order of battle, no pomp of war, but a murderous strife, a quick firing of breech-loaders, and volleys from flint-lock muskets, mixed with the flying of spears and twanging of bows, the cowardly running away at once, pursued by yelping savages; and who knows how it all would have terminated?

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

I have a friend in Rouen who proposed to a club the manufacture of lances to fight against the breech-loaders!

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

The needle guns must be the Prussian Dreyse single-shot breech-loaders of 1840, which were the first bolt-action military weapons.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971