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  • He walked down through the pines and the turkey came out and started to fly across the valley, offering me a beautiful side shot at about thirty-five yards—just the distance for my ten-bore.

    A Turkey Hunt at Pine Knot 1919

  • The General, his feet firmly planted, had unlimbered a huge ten-bore shotgun, so as to be ready for anything.

    The Killer Stewart Edward White 1909

  • But such light as there was fell upon his face as he peered eagerly over and round the rock, and glinted down the barrels of the double ten-bore gun which he held across his knee.

    Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The small arms consisted of a couple of heavy ten-bore elephant guns carrying three-ounce melinite shells; a dozen rifles and fowling-pieces of different makes of which three, a single and a double-barrelled rifle and a double-barrelled shot-gun, belonged to her Ladyship, as well as a dainty brace of revolvers, one of half a dozen braces of various calibres which completed the minor armament of the _Astronef_.

    A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

  • He walked down through the pines and the turkey came out and started to fly across the valley, offering me a beautiful side shot at about thirty-five yards ” just the distance for my ten-bore.

    Letters to His Children Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1919

  • And he can't use his pardner's cartridges, for I gave that fellow a twelve-bore gun and his is a ten-bore. "

    The Associate Hermits Frank Richard Stockton 1868

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