Murtagh was carefully loading the pistols, an array of balls, wadding, powder, patches, rods, and pouches neatly spread on Lady Annabelle's polished table, but looked up to nail me with a black glance.

"If they can hit with the first round, they should do better now..." Ned watched the buccaneers sponging out the guns, loading powder, wad, bag of langrage and another wad, and aiming the gun again as the second captain carefully poured priming powder from a flask into the vent.

Loading shot and powder in press, and verifying that the as-dropped weights are per an established, published, loading recipe using a calibrated scale.

There were only 11 survivors inside the gun turret, all on the lowest deck, where they were loading powder from the ship's magazines.

This mixture is then compressed into the motor tube, similar to a method for loading black powder.

Nor had it come when Lieutenant George F. Rand, in absolute violation of the Rules of Land Warfare prescribing the treatment, of captured commissioned officers, had been loading powder into land mines in a Korean factory, while existing on a baseball-sized ball of rice a day plus an occasional dried fish.

-I just didn't expect you-" she was saying, closing the machine and loading powder into it.

Moreover, they said the investigators had no physical evidence that Mr. Hartwig, who helped to load powder into the gun before the explosion, had committed suicide.