rifle-butts

--- Native Proverb They came and changed the guard two hours after dawn, to the accompaniment of a lot of hawking and spitting, orders growled through the mist, and the crash of rifle-butts grounding on the rock path.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

Once in the arena, the guards took charge of all three of them and lined them up facing the mullah, clubbing them with their rifle-butts to get quick obedience.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

"Four men came up here, and knocked down the door with their rifle-butts," he said.

Fear, Death Rule Across Swaths 2008

He had not expected them to jump so lightly from the truck, he had thought they would be pushed and toppled from it by means of bayonets and rifle-butts.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Adjoining the park are the rifle-butts and the racecourse.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black

I was saying, though, that I bolted in the dark, slept in the rifle-butts above Salisbury, the sheds where they keep the cardboard men, you know, never locked up as they ought to be.

The Longest Journey 1924

Was it yesterday he had lain in the rifle-butts over Salisbury?

The Longest Journey 1924

Doors had been smashed in with rifle-butts and boot-heels; windows had been broken; furniture had been wantonly destroyed; pictures had been torn from the walls; mattresses had been ripped open with bayonets in search of valuables; drawers had been emptied upon the floors; the outer walls of the houses were spattered with blood and pock-marked with bullets; the sidewalks were slippery with broken wine-bottles; the streets were strewn with women's clothing.

Fighting in Flanders 1918

They battered the door with their rifle-butts, crashed it in:

Edith Cavell 1917

They battered the door with their rifle-butts, crashed it in:

A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913