The brutes did their best to worry him, butting their
muzzles at him.
Directly Vronsky went towards her, she drew in a deep breath, and, turning back her prominent eye till the white looked bloodshot, she started at the approaching figures from the opposite side, shaking her
muzzle, and shifting lightly from one leg to the other.
His lost eye and his scarred
muzzle bore evidence to the nature of his experience.
Muzzle retired; and a pale, sharp-nosed, half-fed, shabbily- clad clerk, of middle age, entered the room.
"What name you?" Sheldon suddenly shouted, pointing directly at the man who held the gun, who startled and lowered the
muzzle.
But for the stray brown on his
muzzle and above his eyes, and for the splash of white hair that ran midmost down his chest, he might well have been mistaken for a gigantic wolf, larger than the largest of the breed.
He had a large pair of bellows, with a long slender
muzzle of ivory: this he conveyed eight inches up the anus, and drawing in the wind, he affirmed he could make the guts as lank as a dried bladder.
Raoul at this moment perceived the
muzzle of a gun pointed at him, and remembering the recommendation of Athos, he, with the rapidity of lightning, made his horse rear as the shot was fired.
Saxon saw young Frank Davis, a friend of Bert's and a father of several months' standing, press the
muzzle of his revolver against a scab's stomach and fire.
But the young inventor quickly elevated the
muzzle, and the deadly missile went hissing through the air over the head of a native Indian who, at that moment, stepped from the bush.
The other bank of the stream was open ground -- a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the
muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
One day, however-- sad and melancholy day!-- peace was signed between the survivors of the war; the thunder of the guns gradually ceased, the mortars were silent, the howitzers were muzzled for an indefinite period, the cannon, with
muzzles depressed, were returned into the arsenal, the shot were repiled, all bloody reminiscences were effaced; the cotton-plants grew luxuriantly in the well-manured fields, all mourning garments were laid aside, together with grief; and the Gun Club was relegated to profound inactivity.