 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1817 - 560 pages
...greater expertness, if you had performed the motion with a little more dexterity. S, A, o, u, /, — Shoulder foolk! Very handsomely done indeed! Put your guns on the other shoulder, gentlemen. Order footk! Not quite so well, gentlemen — not quite altogether, but perhaps I did not speak loud enough... | |
 | 1811 - 450 pages
...guns need not draw, but only make the motion ; it will do just as well, and save a great deal of time. Return rammer ! Very well again ! But that would have...performed the motion with a little more dexterity. S, h, o, K, /, — Shoulder foolk ! Very handsomely done indeed ! Put your guns on the other shoulder,... | |
 | John Lambert - Boston (Mass.) - 1814 - 556 pages
...save a great deal of time. "Return rammer! — Very well again — But that would have been done, 1 think, with greater expertness, if you had performed the motion with a little more dexterity. " Shoulder foolk ! — Very handsomely done, indeed, if you had only brought the foolk to the other... | |
 | John Lambert - Canada - 1816 - 552 pages
...not draw, but only make o 2 the motion ; it will do just as well, and save a great deal of time. " Return rammer ! — Very well again,^— But that...performed the motion with a little more dexterity. " Shoulder foolk ! — Very handsomely done, indeed, if you had only brought the foolk to the other... | |
 | C. H. Gifford - Europe - 1817 - 904 pages
...need not draw, but only make the motion ; it will do just as well, and save a great deal of time. " ' e and friendship, is a solemn question, which the constitution wisely confides to expertnese, if you had performed the motion with a little more dexterity. 44 * Shoulder J'oolk! —... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 406 pages
...again, gentlemen, and bring the foolk up to the left shoulder. " ' Shoulder foolk .'—Very good. '" Order foolk .'— Not quite so well, gentlemen; not...speak loud enough for you to hear me all at once. Try one • more, if you please; I hope you will be patient, gentlemen ; we will soon be through. '" Order... | |
 | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - Fiction - 1850 - 238 pages
...guns need not draw, but only make the motion ; it will do just as well, and save a great deal of time. "Return, rammer! Very well again. But that would have...more dexterity. " Shoul — Shoulder, foolk ! Very handsomelj done indeed ! Put your guns on the other shoulder gentlemen. " Order, foolk ! Not quite... | |
 | Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber - American wit and humor - 1854 - 322 pages
...the motion ; it will do just as well ) and save a great deal of time. J " Shoul — Shoulder, arms ! Very handsomely done, indeed ' Put your guns on the other shoulder, gentlemen. " Take aim. ' Tention the hull ! Please to observe, gentlemen, that at the word ' fire !' you must... | |
 | Samuel Putnam Avery - American wit and humor - 1854 - 324 pages
...make the motion ; it will do just as wel] and save a great deal of time. " Shoul — Shoulder, arms ! Very handsomely done, indeed ! Put your guns on the other shoulder, gentlemen. " Take aim. 'Tention the hull ! Please to observe, gentlemen, that at the word 'fire!' you must fire:... | |
 | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet - Georgia - 1870 - 244 pages
...it will do just as well, and save a great deal of time. " Return, rammer ! Very well again. But thai would have been done, I think, with greater expertness...more dexterity. " Shoul — Shoulder, foolk! Very handsomelj done indeed ! Put your guns on the other shoulder gentlemen. " Order, foolk ! Not quite... | |
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Draw, rammer ! Those who have no rammers to their guns need not draw, but only make the motion ; it will do just as well, and save a great deal of time. " Return, rammer ! Very well again. 
