The French rifle is made very strong at the breech and is of tempered steel throughout.

He spoke of a new French rifle.

I suppose we saw as many as fifty smashed French rifles, as many as a hundred and fifty canteens and knapsacks.

Here too, we saw our first "fighting" aeroplane (armed with one short French Rifle), which had crashed just outside the village.

There were English Enfields and French rifles of the early nineties, and a mitrailleuse to which the Turks had fitted a new wooden base.

With smokeless powder, the French rifle imparts a muzzle velocity of 2,000 feet per second to the bullet, with a range of about 2,400 meters.