How To Use Ramrod In A Sentence
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It was all one to me if they decided on arquebuses; after a month spent listening to them prosing about jamming ramrods, and getting oil on my trousers, I found myself sharing the view of old General Scarlett, who once told me:
The Sky Writer
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With his ramrod posture and off-the-cuff New York delivery, Dean did not meet that need.
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She was sitting ramrod straight in her chair, with perfect posture, of course.
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At the end of the second round he had opened up a 18-11 advantage mainly thanks to his ramrod right which he used with unerring accuracy.
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Also included is our custom made collapsible brass and wood ramrod that tucks neatly into the fore-end when not in use and a wrench for easy removal of the breech plug for both safety and easy cleaning.
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His priest makes an unrelaxed figure — ramrod-spined, peering suspiciously over his moustache.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her body was ramrod straight, stiff with tension.
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She thought of her dad with his ramrod back and his ramrod soul, dignified to the marrow.
PROSPECT HILL
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Except that Bill Ayers conveys nothing of the ramrod toughness of the fascist right that Gramm conveyed, but, rather, a milquetoasty soft-focus optimism based on an illusion of our government operating as a perfect democracy that gets its direction from the street, rather than from those we elect to make good appointments and to represent us for us in this highly imperfect union, sort of.
Bill Ayers on Arne Duncan: "the smart choice, the unity choice"
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Stark's regiment loaded the powder and wad into the muzzle of their gun, and with a ramrod forced a musketball into the burning hot barrel of the weapon.
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‘Take away the ramrod and you'd barely know it was a muzzleloader,’ Remington Arms says of its Model 700 in-line muzzleloaders.
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I've read that "back in the day" when muzzleloaders were used in battle, shooting the ramrod was the last resort when out of ammo.
Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
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Intrepid Lotte sat cross-legged on the floor, hands on knees, a back to make a ramrod seem flaccid.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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All the brass furniture including the buttplate, sideplate, ramrod thimbles, trigger guard, and patchbox were hand polished bright.
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Ayane shot up to a sitting position, back ramrod-straight and fur bristling.
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He slid the ramrod out, jammed it down the long barrel, then pulled it free.
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I lay down beside him on my back, stiff as a ramrod, praying he wasn't going to do what he did.
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Sitting ramrod straight in an armchair in the sitting room of the London hotel where she is staying, she replies that she had forgotten she had written that.
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A steel ramrod from a musket is a wild whipping thing, and Phil is right -- it kicks like a bronco.
Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
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Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod with its brass tip threaded for jag, worm, screw or other implement.
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He is in civvies today - immaculate grey suit, buffed shoes, short back and sides - he wears them as if they were a uniform: pressed creases, ramrod back, purposeful handshake.
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The next step is ensuring an unloaded firearm, which is accomplished with the ramrod as explained earlier.
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He handed over his passport to the ramrod stiff guard in the booth and waited.
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He glanced at the girl next to him, holding her head so regally and high, her back ramrod straight.
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Another plus on the side of safety is the length of the ramrod, which matches the distance from base of breech to muzzle.
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Two brown-finish thimbles under the barrel secure the wooden ramrod.
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We re not talking ramrod posture, but show some energy and enthusiasm.
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I am dismayed that once again a condo project has been ramrodded through without any democratic consultation.
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Tom flew out of the door, ramrod in one hand and rifle in the other.
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they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball
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A fellow who "skinned his flint" was looked upon as being a parsimonious, penny-pinching, stingy cheapskate — a veritable skinflint. ramrod A ramrod is a rod of wood or metal for ramming the ball and patch down the barrel of a muzzleloading firearm and setting them against the main powder charge.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1
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The captured general maintained his dignity to the end , walking ramrod - straight to his execution.
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I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod.
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They were scared men, even Schiller was ramrod straight in his seat.
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When the visit was over and Biden started to leave, a young girl stood ramrod straight at her desk and said, ‘You cannot leave.’
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I wrung his hand with indescribable relief, and he sent the "ramrod" on guard, to saddle my horse.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
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We both rammed the ball down at the same time, throwing the ramrod over our shoulders carelessly.
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Her mother spat fire whenever she caught Danielle sitting in any position other than the normal prim and proper, ramrod stiff spine lady pose.
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(if such were possible!) still hoarding the build of a boy in his twenties, as he soaks, a ramrod with the muscle of a seal in his long tub, vaguely urinous from the Victorian plumbing.
The Mad Poets Society
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She watched as he scurried off towards the rear of the apartment, his back ramrod straight.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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Significantly, it was ramrodded through Smith & Wesson when a gun-smart woman, Sherry Collins, was in charge of the company's marketing.
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My brother - who was then and remains my hero - stood ramrod straight in his Marine Corps dress blues.
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Walking over to the wall, he pulled his body gracefully up and sat down with his back ramrod straight.
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This produces enough tension to keep the ramrod from wiggling around and cancels the tendency to come loose from the barrel groove under recoil.
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On Mondays her hair is crumpled and unbrushed, she is slumped in her seat (unlike her usual ramrod posture), and she looks paler than a corpse in a coffin.
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A steel ramrod from a musket is a wild whipping thing, and Phil is right -- it kicks like a bronco.
Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
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She glared and him from one step down, her back ramrod straight.
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She stalks to the chair and sits down, back ramrod stiff.
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It was as though the impact of what she said, the sheer rotten falsity of it, had lifted me out of my seat like a powerful ramrod.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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A brown-suited instructor with ramrod posture and an air of self-important officialdom points at a blackboard covered with indecipherable scrawls.
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The magazine that was in my hand flew from my hand and up I stood like a ramrod and trampled out into the stairwell.
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With his back ramrod straight, he balances a heavy water jug on his head, spilling not a drop, and turns to trudge up the hill.
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Contemporary drill manuals dictated twenty separate steps to load and fire the Bess, including five just to replace the ramrod.
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For the double-ended ramrods, one end is threaded for cleaning attachments and the other end shaped concave for loading a patched round lead ball over 30 grains of powder.
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They resisted the efforts of the Berskshire Sports & Entertainment group (BS&E) formed to ramrod the stadium through.
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He was walking back over to his car, back ramrod straight.
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Using a knitting needle as a ramrod he pushed it as far up as it would go.
THE ONLY GAME
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Soldiers gripped the ball end in their teeth and tore it off the top of the cartridge; the charge was then poured, the paper used as a wad to pack it down, and the ball seated on top with the ramrod.
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Using a knitting needle as a ramrod he pushed it as far up as it would go.
THE ONLY GAME
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I watched his hands, tipping measured amounts of powder from a pewter horn, tapping in a ball and wad with a short ramrod.
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The soldier stood stiff as a ramrod.
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He sat ramrod straight and stared straight ahead.
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It shows that she is interested only in ramrodding it through Parliament, come what may.
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Every time he appeared on screen, with his ramrod straight posture and gaze of steel, my friends and I would burst out laughing.
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This lever is hollow to house the shot barrel ramrod, which generally lands on the ground.
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He had made many improvements in the Prussian army, notably the introduction of the iron ramrod about 1700, and he now took the field at the head of a Prussian corps on the Rhine, serving at the sieges of Kaiserswerth and Venlo.
The Old Dessauer
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Blackstone entered, his back ramrod straight, as if he were still in the military.
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She turned her back to Maura, her spine ramrod straight.
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They moved off into the dim morning, Sunny trailing with slumped shoulders, although Mahina's back was ramrod straight.
MEDALON
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She watched as he scurried off towards the rear of the apartment, his back ramrod straight.
ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
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The soldier stood stiff as a ramrod.
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Jillie tossed her hair over her shoulder as she walked to her car, her back ramrod straight, feeling his eyes boring into her with every step she took.
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While the vote shows that the pan-blue camp will no longer be able to ramrod its proposals through the legislature, the pan-green camp will still have to battle to get its legislative platform enacted.
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This miraculously changed the word "ramrod" in paragraph seventeen of chapter twenty-three, into the word "benediction" trust me on this and utterly transformed the story from dogshit into a song of the divine.
Archive 2006-11-01
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They moved off into the dim morning, Sunny trailing with slumped shoulders, although Mahina's back was ramrod straight.
MEDALON
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He walks over to his locker, stiff-legged, his back ramrod straight, and grabs his change of clothes.
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Without the ramrod, which is now missing, it weighs only 5 lbs.
Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain
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Raven now withdrew a metal ramrod that was set beneath the metal tube, and stared at it.
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Marcopolo the Ramrod's letter is easily an open insult to the 70% of Americans who make less than 25K/year, but beyond that, it beautifully exposes an appalling obliviousness to the state of our country by certain advantaged members of society, as well as an absolute disregard for those who do not share their tax bracket.
Edward Murray: The Poor Top Two Percent
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From this the parts descend gradually to a little wire called the ramrod-spring-wire, the value of which is only one mill.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
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She thought of her dad with his ramrod back and his ramrod soul, dignified to the marrow.
PROSPECT HILL
