Crossword-Solution: CARBINES 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Then he looked up at the road from which they had fallen and saw, looking down on them, the muzzles of four other carbines and four other brown faces with bright but quite motionless eyes.

The latter crept stealthily around the outside of the building, toward the door--their carbines ready in their hands.

What do you want?” “Could you gi’me a cup o’ coffee? It’s been some little time since I had anything to eat, an’ I been sort o’ sick.” “You shall have ‘em,” said the officer, “and good pay besides, if you lead us straight; if not, a limb and a halter rein; you understand?” A quarter of an hour later they were on the march, Darby trudging in front down the middle of the muddy road between two of the advance guard, whose carbines were conveniently carried to insure his fidelity.

Even the cat-like movement of their silent mounts breathed a sinister secrecy, and now, for the first time, Barney noticed the short, ugly looking carbines that were slung in boots at their saddle-horns.

The muzzles of their carbines were directed at every point, and on their faces fear and hate and cowardice were written in varying likenesses.