Levin took out a
ramrod and began sketching him the staircase in the dust.
I slipped the
ramrod down it to make sure it was loaded, then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir.
Taking advantage of its well known curiosity, he laid down flat among the grass, and putting his handkerchief on the end of his
ramrod, waved it gently in the air.
In an instant he stood as stiff and straight as a
ramrod, and the heavy eyes kindled with an angry spark as he said, in his high and mighty manner
We are grown stiff with the
ramrod of convention down our backs.
“Lie down, you old villain,” exclaimed Leather-Stocking, shaking his
ramrod at Hector as he bounded toward the foot of the tree, “ lie down, I say.” The dog obeyed, and Natty proceeded with great rapidity, though with the nicest accuracy, to reload his piece.
The latter remained in the hall, busy with his
ramrod and his gun; the former walked in, and stood with his back to the fire, surveying Mr.
The effect of all this was that Newman, for the first time in his life, was not himself; that he measured his movements, and counted his words, and resolved that if the occasion demanded that he should appear to have swallowed a
ramrod, he would meet the emergency.
English officials - Deputy Commissioners even - turned aside from the main road to visit him, and on those occasions he dressed himself in the uniform of ancient days, and stood up like a
ramrod.
Further off, in a sort of gloom and beyond the light of day and the movement of the street, I saw the figure of a man, stiff like a
ramrod, moving with small steps, a slight girlish figure by his side.
They have brought cannon balls, broken
ramrods, fragments of shell--iron enough to freight a sloop.
Some were using their
ramrods, others putting powder on the touchpans or taking charges from their pouches, while others were firing, though who they were firing at could not be seen for the smoke which there was no wind to carry away.