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Captain Thompson and Major La Garde shot eight cows and steers before shifting to what they called “quick-firing” tests, the object being “to fire a sufficient number of shots in rapid succession to cause the animal to fall to the floor.”
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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A new version of the quick-firing Linux keyboard launcher GNOME Do landed last week, bringing with it a “theme” that acts as a whole new desktop interface.
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The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people with a quick-firing gun, but worse, these people and many others had risen from the grave to turn on the living, so the story ran.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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A new version of the quick-firing Linux keyboard launcher GNOME Do landed last week, bringing with it a “theme” that acts as a whole new desktop interface.
GNOME Do’s Smart Dock Takes App Launching To Another Level | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The Martians, alarmed by the approach of a crowd, had killed a number of people with a quick-firing gun, so the story ran.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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He rattled short sentences like a quick-firing gun, but he was plainly the sort of man who is either mad or right.
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Mobile, quick-firing howitzers were brought from Adrianople to the Dardanelles and placed in concealed positions along the European and Asian shores.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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By equipping battleships with quick-firing guns and screening them with anti-torpedo-boat vessels (Fisher named them destroyers), navies could make it hazardous for an enemy surface vessel to come close enough to launch its torpedoes.
Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003
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He rattled short sentences like a quick-firing gun, but he was plainly the sort of man who is either mad or right.
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He was a small man, hot and quick-firing, though kindly, too, and gentle when he had blown off.
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