central-fire

• “I was tremendously delighted at the idea that I was to have a real central-fire gun.”

  Reminiscences of Tolstoy

• “I tried afterward to buy the gun he had spoken of from his legatees not in the quality of a central-fire gun, but as Turgénieff's gun; but I did not succeed.”

  Reminiscences of Tolstoy

• “I tried afterward to buy the gun he had spoken of from his legatees not in the quality of a central-fire gun, but as Turgenieff's gun; but I did not succeed.”

  Reminiscences of Tolstoy

• “The nearest size in central-fire cartridge to seven millimetres is called the 300, which is .3 of an inch.”

  The Hand in the Dark

• “The only arms taken were revolvers of the Government regulation pattern (breech loading, central-fire).”

  Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories

• “In the High Street he stopped at Clifford's, the gun-maker's, and bought a heavy revolver, with a box of central-fire cartridges.”

  Round the Red Lamp

• “One double No. 12 central-fire Keeper's shot-gun, full choke both barrels.”

  King Solomon's Mines

• “As he spoke the professor handed six of the little central-fire cartridges, while Frank drew the small revolver he carried out of a pocket within the breast of his cotton jacket, and began to thrust them in.”

  In the Mahdi's Grasp

• “On the taciturn bronze-countenance, therefore, things being now all ready, there sits a grimmer gravity than ever, compressing a hotter central-fire than ever.”

  The French Revolution

• “Doctor’s 900-fathom sounding-line, 500 rounds of pin, rim, and central-fire cartridges for my arms, and ninety musket bullets, also belonging to me.”

  How I Found Livingstone

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