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They gave me a gun and a cartridge-box at the Commune headquarters, and march!— Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete
Irishman), suiting the action to the word, "forty rounds in the cartridge-box, and twenty in the pocket."— Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete
When their captors approached them every cartridge-box was open; every man had fired his last shot.— The Companions of Jehu
"Now, the cartridge-box and revolver holster, Sergeant," insisted— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers
A second rush produced a cartridge-box, which— Laboulaye's Fairy Book

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