ball-cartridge

The men on the other side had begun to use ball-cartridge.

Prester John 2005

But ball-cartridge seemed to be plentiful hereabouts; during the whole of this and the next day, I remarked that bullets, notched for noise, were fired away in mere fun. 4

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

‘Hewson, have your guard ready at eight o’clock, with their carbines clean, and a round of ball-cartridge each.

The Purcell Papers 2003

By rigid adherence to them, far more than average proficiency in shooting is attainable without the expenditure of a single ball-cartridge.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

Orpheuses, in which every third soldier shouldered a fiddle-case as a pendant to his musket, must have been curious to behold; suggesting the idea that the melodious warriors designed subduing their foes by the soothing strains of _jotas_ and _cachuchas_, rather than by the more cogent arguments of sharp steel and ball-cartridge.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

We had, of course, all loaded up with ball-cartridge and fixed the sword-bayonets to our rifles before we got up to the Arabs; and, by the orders of our commander, we gave them a volley at close quarters as we boarded.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

Down the main street I went, blazing ball-cartridge from a Martini, and ran about the Cathedral grounds, firing any revolver handed me, while the populace applauded and the Archbishop laughed.

High Albania Mary Edith 1909

The men on the other side had begun to use ball-cartridge.

Prester John John Buchan 1907

What could the two cruisers _New York_ and _Brooklyn_, lying in dock for repairs, do without a single ball-cartridge on board?

Banzai! by Parabellum Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff 1903

English troops pretended to be sulky, but there was joy in the hearts of all the subalterns, and whispers ran up and down the line: 'No ball-cartridge -- what a beastly shame!'

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900