rifle-barrel

He saw that the little birds were all gone, and once he saw the glint of sunlight on a rifle-barrel.

NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

"Is that thy business?" he snarled, shifting his rifle-barrel to the other hand.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

To my delight, I found that it was quite loose, and I managed, using the rifle-barrel as a crowbar, to lever it out from the wall.

The House on the Borderland 2007

Edith crouched behind a broken pillar twenty feet away; slipped her rifle-barrel over it so that it would cover the opening.

The Moon Pool 2004

Would it not have been satisfactory to all concerned if it could have been proved that the rusty rifle-barrel lying among odds and ends in the barn was ever in the possession of Billy Too-gal

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

The rifle-barrel had been dulled down against detection by reflection, and Harry's dark glasses protected him against the glare of the morning sun.

This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

I turned at once to the woods, and could almost have sworn I caught a fleeting glimpse of a copper-colored hand, and the flash of a rifle-barrel.

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

His right hand was bleeding, from wounds of the bullet that had struck his rifle-barrel and sprayed hot lead into his flesh, and from the blows he had dealt in his fury amongst the mob.

Trail's End George W. Ogden

"A chunk" was any rest for the rifle -- a bowed limb cut from a tree, the fork of a limb driven firmly into the ground, a part of a log -- anything that was the height to give the needed low level to the rifle-barrel when the shooter lay sprawled behind the gun.

Sergeant York And His People

"I will now go forward and hold parley," said Harry, as he wrapped a kerchief about the muzzle of his rifle-barrel.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler