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1  He adroitly and fiercely swung his rifle.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
2  A rifle barrel caught some glinting beams.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
3  Suddenly those close forests would bristle with rifle barrels.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
4  Immediately he had dropped his rifle and gripped the tree with both arms.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
5  He still grasped his rifle, perhaps having forgotten to release his hold upon it.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
6  He had no rifle; he could not fight with his hands, said he resentfully to his plan.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
7  The tall soldier, having prepared his rifle, produced a red handkerchief of some kind.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
8  The rifle was lowered to a position of caution and the loud soldier came slowly forward.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
9  He had a mad feeling against his rifle, which could only be used against one life at a time.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
10  He rested his rifle in the hollow of his left arm and his right around the youth's shoulder.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
11  Once a man fell down, and as he reached for his rifle a comrade, unseeing, trod upon his hand.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
12  He slowly lifted his rifle and catching a glimpse of the thickspread field he blazed at a cantering cluster.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
13  A man near him who up to this time had been working feverishly at his rifle suddenly stopped and ran with howls.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
14  The youth sat obediently and the corporal, laying aside his rifle, began to fumble in the bushy hair of his comrade.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
15  The steel ramrods clanked and clanged with incessant din as the men pounded them furiously into the hot rifle barrels.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
16  The men took positions behind a curving line of rifle pits that had been turned up, like a large furrow, along the line of woods.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
17  Before he was ready to begin--before he had announced to himself that he was about to fight--he threw the obedient well-balanced rifle into position and fired a first wild shot.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
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