Example Sentences

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We had leaped back into the ravine, which, here was fully eight feet deep and roomy, and were ramming cartridges.

From Who Goes There? by Benson, Blackwood Ketcham

As fast as if I were ramming home a shell, I lifted off the hive while Mac pulled out a couple of combs swarming with bees.

From S.O.S. Stand to! by Grant, Reginald

They were ramming into it powder by the horn full.

From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

With a live matchcord attached to the hammer, it was all too easy to set off a musket while you were ramming in the charge.

From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas

Meantime, having withdrawn our small shot, we were ramming down bullets as fast as we could.

From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by Kingston, William Henry Giles