Read full poem →Decorative floral bullets are similar, but not identical, to the ones
in the original.
Dictionary Entry
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “bullets”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And so my soul, more earnestly released,
Will outstrip hers; as bullets flown before
A latter bullet may o'ertake, the powder being more.
Read full poem →the city August 14, 1762. But disease had worked greater
havoc than Spanish bullets, and there were scarcely fifty Colon-
ial troops left. All came back on one ship. The prize money
Read full poem →And stumbling figures looming out in front.
"O Christ, they're coming at us!" Bullets spat,
And he remembered his rifle ... rapid fire ...
Read full poem →Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.
Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow,
Read full poem →Of them who running on that last high place
Leapt to swift unseen bullets, or went up
On the hot blast and fury of hell's upsurge,