trying

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On the down side however, I would think that, unless you trained regularly with one, reloading one under combat conditions would be something of a disaster waiting to happen (I have visions of Stanley Baker as Lt. Chard in Zulu trying to reload his revolver with shaking hands) but the same could be said of any weapon I suppose.

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  1. adjective Causing strain, hardship, or distress.

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  • Then the long desks became the green tables where Flossie gambled with fate; trying--trying--trying to force the invisible hand For with Flossie it was spring-time too. —  The Divine Fire
  • It is trying--trying--but we can live, which is something. —  Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
  • "He thinks he ought to remember, and he is trying--trying because Grantham said something that made him think he ought to try. —  The Grafters
  • Do you really think she misunderstood me, Barbara I think she wants you to think she did You think she's trying--trying--to To sell you her silence? —  Mr. Waddington of Wyck
  • Here Schiller was evidently trying to Shaksperize again; trying, that is, to assert the poet's sovereign lordship over the petty bonds of Philistine logic. —  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
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trying:   try ·  tried ·  tries
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