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Examples
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Why had not I, long before, reprimed and reloaded my only weapons?
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The Toon Leader reprimed his pistol, then holstered it, took off his belt and laid it aside, an example the others followed.
The Return H. Beam Piper 1934
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The Toon Leader reprimed his pistol, then holstered it, took off his belt and laid it aside, an example the others followed.
The Return H. Beam Piper 1934
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As soon as the shelter had been reached, the bowstrings were shifted, the guns reprimed, and the match changed upon the linstocks.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Grey-Feather awoke me for my turn at guard duty; and the Mohican and I rose from our blankets, reprimed our rifles, crept out from under the laurel and across the shadowy rock-strewn knoll to our posts.
The Hidden Children 1899
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By sense of touch alone we lifted our rifles from our blankets, blew the powder from the pans, reprimed.
The Hidden Children 1899
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Every scalp-lock was neatly braided and oiled; every crown shaven; every knife and war-axe and rifle-barrel glimmered silver bright under the industrious rubbing; flints had been renewed; with finest priming powder pans reprimed; and now all my
The Hidden Children 1899
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When at length it was finished, and the lock reprimed with the dry powder, the two of them,
The Ghost Kings Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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And very calmly Stair picked up the pistols and reprimed them.
Patsy 1887
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Why had not I, long before, reprimed and reloaded my only weapons?
Treasure Island 1883
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