Single Shot Rifles

Famous quotes containing the words single, shot and/or rifles:

    “the whole field is a
    white desire, empty, a single stem;
    a cluster, flower by flower,
    a pious wish to whiteness gone over—
    or nothing.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner, and that is the Afrikaner himself. It is when the Afrikaner, like a baboon shot in the stomach, pulls out his own intestines. We must guard against that.”
    —P.W. (Pieter Willem)

    “I think that for once the Sharp’s rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)