Crossword-Solution: RELOADING 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The soldiers had almost finished reloading; the metal ramrods flashed all at once in the sunshine as they were drawn from the barrels, turned in the air, and thrust into their sockets.

After reloading no difficulty was experienced in making a fresh start on a down grade, but a little farther on a second and larger hill was encountered, when the failure to scale its summit was even greater than the first.

But anyway, why does he come, like the First Consul, without giving warning? Did you know he was coming?” “I am not on such terms with him as to be in his confidence.” “Then you have not seen him?” “I did not know he was here till I got back from my rounds in the forest,” said Michu, reloading his gun.

The Vrouw Prinsloo, in her absurd night garments, was waddling towards the figure, and a little way off stood Hernan Pereira, apparently in the act of reloading a double-barrelled gun.

But the buccaneers timed their broadsides with extraordinary judgment to catch the defending ordnance reloading; then as they drew the Spaniards' fire, they swung away again not only taking care to be ever moving targets, but, further, to present no more than bow or stern to the fort, their masts in line, when the heaviest cannonades were to be expected.