The caliber was 16-gauge and the barrel was rifled with lands and grooves that ran straight as an arrow from breech to muzzle. |
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The seat was as straight as an arrow, and as hard as a stone. |
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But by spring, he would be slender again, his back straight as an arrow. |
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Those words went straight as an arrow to my adolescent heart, and had a major influence on the decisions that shaped my life, and that brought me, by a very indirect route, to this ceremony today. |
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Folding will be easier and the fold is straight as an arrow. |
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Two melt-water lakes, whose frozen surface looks like polished black steel, lie on either side of the road which now runs straight as an arrow across the top of the mountain. |
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