cartridge-boxes

A cable was stretched across just below the ford as a lifeline for the weaker ones, and then the men of the entire division having secured their ammunition by placing the cartridge-boxes on their shoulders, the column pushed cheerfully into the rushing current.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes.

Les Miserables 2008

He rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger.

Les Miserables 2008

Gavroche had taken a bottle basket from the wine-shop, had made his way out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full cartridge-boxes of the National Guardsmen who had been killed on the slope of the redoubt, into his basket.

Les Miserables 2008

We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia of war almost unknown today, pendant colbacks, floating sabre-taches, cross-belts, cartridge-boxes for grenades, hussar dolmans, red boots with

Les Miserables 2008

Now they wear the Tánga or Pagne, a waist cloth falling to the knee, and they are armed with trade muskets and cartridge-boxes fastened to broad belts.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The bare loins of many were galled by their cartridge-boxes, while a folded rag or a tuft of moss alone protected their shoulders from being chafed by their guns.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

The bare loins of many were galled by their cartridge-boxes, while a folded rag or a tuft of moss alone protected their shoulders from being chafed by their guns.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

To enable themselves better to run they threw away their blankets, knapsacks, canteens, and finally their muskets, cartridge-boxes -- everything.

A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Sarah Ellen Blackwell

He bears also a heavy matchlock musket; his rest, or iron fork, is stuck in the ground, ready to support the weapon; and he is girded with his bandoleer, or broad leather belt, which sustains a sword and a dozen tin cartridge-boxes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various