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Walls had been loopholed, fences had been cut down, and various preparations made for holding the town.
It was Gunner Bolton, with his rifle pointing through a loophole and his finger on the trigger.
Rifles were poking out through the loopholes, and, thank goodness, that door in the wall was shut.
Obstacles had been created on all sides, and the houses prepared for defense and loopholed, were occupied.
Houses were loopholed, and communications were pierced between them, without any regard for private property or convenience.
The windows had been blockaded, loopholes having been left, and through these a lively fire was maintained.
"Look out for arrows," continued the speaker, as he crawled to a loophole between Rudolph's and the captain's.
I had not thought he would be in such a hurry, that he would give me no loophole of escape.
With ringing cheers we sprang to the loopholes, and fired as fast as we could load and empty.
He turned his mind now resolutely to the other plan, the one remaining loophole out of his despair.
The little loophole windows were pasted over with paper, and the plank door had no latch or handle.
At the same time a light shone from one of the loopholes for guns which defended the entrance.
There was no going back from their word, even though they might have found a loophole of escape.
"They know as well as we do that we're here," growled Jim, as he stared through his loophole.
Lieutenant Fleming accounted for one of these by thrusting his revolver into a loophole and returning the fire.
In the walls they had loopholes made so that each home was a fortress with armed men inside.
When our people complained that the Turks were making loopholes, they invited me into their trench to look.
It will thus be seen that there is no loophole or excuse to keep anything back, and I never did.
Colonel Clark remained silently looking out of the loophole, as if he had not heard what she said.
In the future, it might be well to remember the law provides many loopholes to the ingenious man.
It so happened that this house was loopholed, and the rebels were thus enabled to continue their resistance.
Every house is loopholed, and whether it has a tower or not depends only on its owner's wealth.
Husband is legal guardian of children, and is required to provide, but law as it stands offers many loopholes.
A rise in the bottom of it just enabled me, by standing on it, to peer through the loophole.
"Tell the men to make torches, and thrust them out through the loopholes when the enemy come."
Yet he left a loophole in private life for religion, and a sinning statesman might one day become converted.
I felt that any moment we might be fighting for our lives, yet I saw no loophole of escape.
Frank and Bob turned about to see Jack and his father, who had approached from their loophole.
Only loopholes admit light to the lower stage, the more important rooms being upon the second floor.
Iron loopholes were absolutely essential; an iron flap fell across them as soon as the rifle had been withdrawn.
From the roof sounded two heavy reports, and grim iron tubes slid into loopholes along the walls.
The walls were loopholed for the guns, and altogether the management of the affair was very good.
Finding this loophole closed, he said he could not bargain to-day, because it was an unlucky day to him.
Half a dozen were already stationed at convenient loopholes and were pouring in a constant fire on the Frenchmen.
This he was determined to prevent by instructions so comprehensive, yet so precise, as to leave no loophole for evasion.
Passing through the door, Kid Wolf noted the thick loophole-pierced walls and other provisions for defense.
The Indians suddenly began to fire at the loopholes, which were now distinctly outlined against the flame-lit wall.
Nahum Jones hated to take the money that was offered him, but there was no loophole to escape.
We should leave the Board no loophole, no excuse of a lack of witnesses or proofs to support Grant's charges.
It was thought that I might slip in through this loophole, and application was made to the government.
He gave his men orders to direct a heavy fire on the loopholes of a fort he wished to take.
It was his only chance, and for some unknown reason he failed to avail himself of his loophole of escape.
Two little loopholes, about six inches square, admitted a certain amount of light when the door was closed.
Floyd, springing to the table, seized a revolver and began firing through the loophole of the back wall.
"It is evident that there is no possibility of escape," he said aloud as he turned away from the loophole.
In this cage there were loopholes for firing upon a foe, if such a thing as defense should become necessary.
You could not dream of a bank of violets and let the breezes climb in through the loopholes.
"As you say, he is eccentric," observed Jasper, seeing here a loophole by which to get in a soothing word.
From the evidence already at hand, James saw loopholes available in the matter of the legal age of twenty-one.
"Those loopholes will puzzle them, and I don't think they will care to come on again, for a bit."
You took advantage of all the loopholes in the Constitution to direct the country according to your own views.
Then came Petty, ordered to join his company in the field and eager as ever to seek some loophole of escape.
As far as I could judge, looking through my loophole, none were killed, though several must have been wounded.
I found it was necessary to examine personally every loophole, and correct the numerous mistakes made in their construction.
The river must run but just below that loophole, and in times of flood probably enters here.
"Possibly not; possibly I am wholly selfish in the matter and am only looking for some loophole of escape."
The moment they left their loopholes the Germans they had held at bay swarmed up the slope.
When the Germans entered, they fired first on all the windows and down loopholes into the cellars.
The stairs giving access to the walls and the interior of the loopholes are also seen in this view.
They planked up the porches, leaving loopholes for firing through, and set guards in proper military fashion.
I'd help with the rifles, but there's no room for me at the windows and loopholes just now.
He must have had some loophole, or he would never have pressed Perez to bear witness to his own crime.
While still his eye was steady at the loophole, his mind reached the decision to change his dispositions.
Hampton fell into quiet, low-voiced conversation, and the boys posted themselves at the loopholes to watch for developments.
There may be some loophole in the direction of thought forms, but otherwise the case is as complete as possible.
As for the defenders, they sprang to the loopholes which had been left and awaited the Professor's signal.
The windows of the apartment were little better than loopholes, with a strong iron bar down the center.
You shall make this offer if you please: but I know you'll be opening out a loophole for the men.
They looked at the cord, still hanging from the loophole and broken at about twenty feet from the ground.
There was no looking out from the loopholes that admitted light, for they were boarded up on the outside.
He went to the loophole at the corner, laid his rifle in it, and waited, looking along the barrel.
The staircase was poorly lighted by loopholes looking towards the rear, but it was clean and well-kept.
Then it presented itself to their contemplation in full force, and apparently without any loophole to escape from it.
Was the answer; and he disappeared from the loophole at which he carried on the conversation for some seconds.
The walls are very high and bare, and there are a great number of windows, which look like loopholes.
The walls of the fort are loopholed, and inside are platforms for those who are defending to shoot from.
Malcolm took his post at the loophole awaiting attack, but the men in front of him did not advance.
These loopholes were almost impossible to see, as they were very nearly indistinguishable from the shadows in the bank.
The rest of his (advance) force was posted in and behind a village, the houses of which were loopholed.
The other openings in the walls were mere loophole slits, about four feet long but only a few inches broad.
As you see, I made four loopholes in each side and, as we lay well back, their bullets passed over our heads.
He read again carefully, slowly, as though trying to discover some loophole from the horror of what was written there.
He stayed at the loophole a long time, but he did not see the figures again nor anything else living.
Here they constructed a wall of wax, with narrow loopholes, through which the great enemy could not pass.
One unlucky bullet came through a loophole, struck Colonel Harris in the neck, and he died in a few minutes.
The fort was so provided with loopholes that they could fire upon the attacking party, themselves remaining concealed.
The muzzle of a revolver was then put through a loophole in the iron door and six shots were fired.
The Sergeant had been killed by a bullet which had come to meet him as he looked through his loophole.
Certainly these were made on conditions which left a loophole for interference on the part of those who made them.
Said Dick, and he stepped forward between Colonel Graham and the Commissioner, and showed himself at the loophole.
He closed it behind him, locked it on the outside, and threw the key through a loophole on the stair.
There are loopholes for rifles in the sides of the vault, and where the platform joins the walls.
This top story seemed to be in a state of good preservation and to contain a room lighted by two loopholes.
Just then a bullet, fired through a loophole at one side of the door, whistled within an inch of my ear.
The ditch was before them, the fort above them, and through double tiers of loopholes came the enemy's fire.
It was a one-storied affair pierced with loopholes, and had a small window in the end facing the stream.
Every loophole was a target for their bullets, but they were poor shots and hardly ever hit the mark.
Henry found great consolation in this remark; it offered a loophole, and he readily placed his faith in loopholes.
He persisted until, at last, he had not sufficient strength to rise and cast his supper out of the loophole.
Scarcely had Reuben taken up his station, at one of the loopholes behind, than he again saw the dark figures.