1 Even Napoleon, who was directing operations from the rear, had the tip of his tail chipped by a pellet.
2 As I turned back, my eye caught the pellet of paper which the prisoner had tossed upon the table.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN 3 This small pellet is, I presume, the black, doughy mass you spoke of.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS 4 This little pellet falls in the yard.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATIO... 5 The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the meeting broke up hurriedly.
6 The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back, and a sheep dropped dead.
7 The animals could not face the terrible explosions and the stinging pellets, and in spite of the efforts of Napoleon and Boxer to rally them, they were soon driven back.
8 This time they did not heed the cruel pellets that swept over them like hail.
9 His knees were bleeding, he had lost a shoe and split his hoof, and a dozen pellets had lodged themselves in his hind leg.
10 The pellets under the skin of Boxer's leg smarted painfully.
11 But butterflies she never saw, mice were only black pellets in kitchen drawers; moths she bundled in her hands and put out of the window.
12 THE cars came scudding in towards Dublin, running evenly like pellets in the groove of the Naas Road.