"Breechloader" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on the deck close to each five-inch breechloader, and the regular watch was doubled. Lack of experience made all these warlike preparations very impressive, and it was some time before the boys fell asleep. For my part, such a restlessness possessed me that, after trying to woo slumber for a half ...
— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday
... hanged! Why, don't I tell you he is quite a prince? and he's regularly English in his ways. Some one made him a present of a Purdey breechloader, and he uses Eley cartridges. What do you think ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn |
