caliber

They reverted invariably to gigantic shells and howitzers of unparalleled caliber. Still in default of practical experience what was the value of mere theories?

It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion."

The weight of these rifles is comparatively little, and with the small caliber, explosive, radium projectiles which they use, and the great length of the barrel, they are deadly in the extreme and at ranges which would be unthinkable on Earth.

Every scheme of this caliber is completed by its results, like a geometrical calculation.

she would ask, and the absence of any poet or painter or novelist of the true caliber at the present day was a text upon which she liked to ruminate, in a sunset mood of benignant reminiscence, which it would have been hard to disturb had there been need.

"Because," said von Schoenvorts in his disagreeable way, "the beast is so large, and its nervous organization of so low a caliber, that it took all this time for the intelligence of death to reach and be impressed upon the minute brain.

He heard words spoken that were meaningless to him, and other words that he had seen only in books and that no man or woman he had known was of large enough mental caliber to pronounce.

I cried to Delcarte not to fire until we reached his side, for I was fearful lest our small caliber, steel-jacketed bullets should, far from killing the beast, tend merely to enrage it still further.

Lecount, warn men of my intellectual caliber not to measure themselves with a giant.

This could not, then, be a military ambuscade, as the ball was not of the regular caliber.

The result was pitiful, and the four showed their caliber in the division of the few pounds of food that had been recovered.

Confiscated from Aldrin Bellesa were one .45-caliber pistol, four magazines and 41 rounds of live ammunition for the same caliber, one inside holster, one magazine pouch, assorted identification cards, and a belt bag.