Meanings of very muzzle in English

He laughed into the very muzzle of the six-shooter that covered him.

The young cannon especially was loaded, with a succession of surprises, to the very muzzle, before midnight.

You charged up to the very muzzle of Yankee guns once, and you weren't scared wu'th a damn!

The fire-arms were limited to an old musket, which was loaded to the very muzzle, to be ready for a grand discharge.

And what shall the night avail them in this narrow passage, under the very muzzles of my guns?

Colonel McRae again held his position, but many of the tribesmen died under the very muzzles of the rifles.

He felt very muzzled indeed.

Captain FitzClarence was wounded, Vernon, Sandford, and Paton were killed, all at the very muzzles of the enemy's guns.

Some of the braver spirits did break their way through, only to fall, man and horse, at the very muzzles, of the guns.

"Without injury?" continued the other, bargaining, as it were, at the very muzzles of the muskets.

David had detected her purpose and stepped aside; and instantly she had entered closed and bolted the door upon the very muzzles of her pursuers.

Here Her Majesty's 40th Regiment lost two successive commanding officers, Major Stopford and Captain Coddington, who fell wounded at the very muzzles of the guns.