Then loading with swan-shot, which these Bedouins had never seen, I knocked over ❋ Unknown (2003)
I now loaded it, for powder-horn and shot-bag hung near it on the wall, putting in a handful of the biggest sort of shot, swan-shot as I should call them. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
With the words, I fired my handful of swan-shot clean into the group, and then charged at them yelling, in boyish imitation of a knight of old, "Happy is he that escapeth me." ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
I awoke the lieutenant, who, after yawning and rubbing his eyes, for he had taken an extra strong north-wester the evening before to make himself sleep sound, took up his fowling-piece; but he might as well have fired at the best bower anchor — the swan-shot with which it was loaded glanced from the object at an angle of twenty-five degrees. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)
"Stand and deliver," quoth I to myself, "or I'll double your weight with swan-shot." ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
I had not even a moment for reflection; my piece was only charged with swan-shot, and I had no other about me; however, though I could have no idea of killing such an animal with that weak kind of ammunition, yet I had some hopes of frightening him by the report, and perhaps of wounding him also. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
I had not even a moment for reflection; my piece was only charged with swan-shot, and I had no other about me. ❋ William Patten (1902)
I took deliberate aim at him with my blunderbuss, loaded as usual with swan-shot, and wounded him in several places, but not seriously. ❋ Unknown (1902)
When he had drank it, I made him take the two fowling-pieces, which we always carried, and load them with large swan-shot, as big as small pistol-bullets. ❋ Unknown (1895)
The two muskets I loaded with a brace of slugs each, and four or five smaller bullets, about the size of pistol-bullets; and the fowling-piece I loaded with near a handful of swan-shot, of the largest size. ❋ Unknown (1895)
"I say," said Rifle, in a low tone, "it's all very well for father to talk like that to them, but he doesn't think a charge of swan-shot will scatter the blacks, or else he wouldn't have the bullets ready." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Then they must have got away; but they've took some swan-shot wi ''em, whoever they be." ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
In April, six miles away in the valley, a vast cloud came down with swan-shot of hail, black as blackest smoke, overwhelming house and wood, all gone and mixed with the sky; and behind the mass there followed a white cloud, sunlit, dragging along the ground like a cumulus fallen to the earth. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
But the blundering blasts and the swan-shot of the flying hail were all about still. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
At that instant Charley swept past; and his mettlesome steed swerved as it heard the loud report of the gun, thereby almost unhorsing his rider, and causing him unintentionally to discharge the conglomerate of bullets and swan-shot into the flank of Peter ❋ Unknown (1859)
Young Harry Somerville, who had been strongly advised not to take a gun lest he should shoot himself or his horse or his companions, was content to take the field with a small pocket-pistol, which he crammed to the muzzle with a compound of ball and swan-shot. ❋ Unknown (1859)
The captain used to load it with an enormous charge of powder and a handful of shot -- swan-shot, two sizes of duck-shot, and sparrow-hail, mixed, with an occasional rifle-ball dropped in to the bargain. ❋ Unknown (1859)
At that instant Charley swept past; and his mettlesome steed swerved as it heard the loud report of the gun, thereby almost unhorsing his rider, and causing him unintentionally to discharge the conglomerate of bullets and swan-shot into the flank of Peter Mactavish's horse -- fortunately at a distance which rendered the shot equivalent to a dozen very sharp and particularly stinging blows. ❋ Unknown (1859)
