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Bullet hole   /bˈʊlət hoʊl/   Listen
Bullet hole

noun
1.
A hole made by a bullet passing through it.






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"Bullet hole" Quotes from Famous Books



... "it's my duty to make investigations. Though I didn't think it likely, there might have been a knife cut or a bullet hole. One of you had better bring up the sled. We can't break this ground without dynamite, but there are some loose rocks along the foot of ...
— The Intriguers • Harold Bindloss

... liquor from the barrels in the shop. Some of their officers knocked the spigots from the barrels and let the liquor run away on the floor. The drunken soldiers became furious. They fired off their guns in the house. You can still see a bullet hole in the ceiling. ...
— Ben Comee - A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 • M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan

... report had proceeded, to investigate the occurrence. When we reached the spot where the driveway intersects with the main road we found the President's hat—a plain silk hat-and upon examining it we discovered a bullet hole through the crown. The shot had been fired upwards, and it was evident that the person who fired the shot had secreted himself close to the roadside. We listened and searched the locality thoroughly, but to no avail. The next day I ...
— The Great Conspiracy, Complete • John Alexander Logan

... become a master shot. When he aimed at the figure sketched on the wall he lamented that it was not a man, some hated enemy whom he must needs exterminate. Bang! That ball pierced his heart! He smiled with satisfaction at seeing the bullet hole outlined on the very spot at which he had aimed. The noise of the shooting, the smoke of the powder, aroused in his imagination warlike fancies, stories of struggle and death in which he was always the victorious ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... that thoroughness of search which made the borderman what he was, Jonathan leaped upon the rock. There, lying in the midst of the ferns, lay an Indian with sullen, somber face set in the repose of death. In his side was a small bullet hole. ...
— The Last Trail • Zane Grey

... in a chair, tied to it. His head was canted a little to one side an' he was lookin' up at me. There was a bullet hole in his ...
— Tangled Trails - A Western Detective Story • William MacLeod Raine

... it to the trial,' the Emir said. 'One of my sons came back, from the battle, with a bullet hole through his hand. The hakim said that two of the bones were broken. He put bandages round, and my son said no more about it. He is a man who does not complain of slight troubles, but yesterday evening the pain became so ...
— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty



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