| In piling arms, after the firelocks are properly fixed, the pikes are generally placed across the muzzles. |
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| An instant later, the door burst open and he was staring down the muzzles of two semi-automatics and a handgun. |
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| Nectar feeding species are small and have long muzzles and extremely long tongues tipped with a brush-like structure. |
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| Jack's and Trapper's muzzles and paws were smeared in red, and their normally brilliant white teeth were stained crimson. |
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| It seems like blatant sheltering and effectively muzzles the people expressing their views. |
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| By the late 17th century devices were being developed to fire grenades from the muzzles of flintlock muskets. |
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| Almost all of them had slim heads with narrow muzzles and small brain cavities. |
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| They have black silky fur, roundish heads, short muzzles with a naked face and ears. |
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| She handed treats over the fence to five horses and caressed their muzzles, then turned to wave to journalists before heading inside again. |
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| The 23rd Light Dragoons, raised in 1781, armed its flankers with small, short blunderbusses with elliptical muzzles referred to as musketoons. |
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| Although most Borders have dark ears and muzzles, their coats may be grizzle and tan, blue and tan, red or wheaten. |
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| The hounds were black, red, silver-grey and brindle, tall and narrow, with tapered muzzles and dark narrow eyes. |
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| Her owners are now calling for dog walkers to put muzzles on dangerous pets, fearing a child could be injured. |
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| The artist used bravura painterly techniques to depict comic-book-style characters, many of whom had buck-toothed, doggish muzzles and half-rounded, Mickey-like eyes. |
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| One by one as we scurried them towards the tow-line and began to lever them into harness, they raised their muzzles and let out a yowl to wake the dead. |
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| Guns had been cleared and tampions taken from the guns' muzzles. |
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| They had large, broad heads, short muzzles and tiny, deep-set eyes. |
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| The shepherds prefer dogs with heavy, rough heads and large muzzles. |
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| And so now I find myself explaining to anyone who I see while out walking that my dogs are not dangerous and then I have to explain why they wear the muzzles. |
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| Chris and Sabrina sat there with their muzzles hanging open. |
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| Females tend to have narrower muzzles and foreheads, thinner necks, slightly shorter legs and less massive shoulders than males. |
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| The disease is named after a white fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, found growing on the muzzles, ears, and wings of afflicted bats. |
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| There is also controversy over the use of muzzles and other inhibitors, which prevent the dolphins from foraging for food while working. |
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| These bats possess long muzzles and long, extensible tongues covered in fine bristles that aid them in feeding on particular flowers and plants. |
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| Submissive foxes will approach dominant animals in a low posture, so that their muzzles reach up in greeting. |
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| The mouthing of each other's muzzles is a friendly gesture, while clamping on the muzzle with bared teeth is a dominance display. |
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| The flash from the muzzles of the guns was seen distinctly through the mist and smoke on the horizon, although the ships themselves were not distinguishable. |
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| To force animals to perform these meaningless and often uncomfortable or painful tricks, trainers use whips, muzzles, bullhooks and electric prods. |
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| Their skulls are distinguished from those of dogs by their narrower muzzles, less crowded premolars, more slender canine teeth, and concave rather than convex profiles. |
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| During this time, their ears erect and their muzzles elongate. |
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