They reached the crest of the hill in time to see the Confederates gallop up the slope toward the stables, firing their pistols at the blue-coats, who were forming in the edge of a little wood, over beyond a fence, from the other side of which the smoke of their carbines was rolling.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
Accordingly they proceeded down the hill, and crossed the stream, the rest keeping close to Don Luis, and splashing him not a little in their hurry to get across, looking anxiously behind them, to see if the brigands were in their rear, and expecting every moment to hear the sharp click of the locks of their carbines, with the ringing report of their discharge, each hoping that he should not be the one picked off.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
Having surrounded the caravan, they pointed the spears with tumult and menace at the breasts of the people, or aimed carbines at them.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz