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Hilaire Belloc wrote, "I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten 'em.

" The skin of a hippopotamus is so thick that most bullets cannot penetrate it.

The bullets ripped into his chest, killing him instantly.

The soldiers were killed in a hail of bullets as they tried to reach the enemy's position.

The hippopotamus has skin an inch-and-a-half thick, so solid that most bullets cannot penetrate it.

The town was destroyed in the war, and the only buildings left standing had bullets lodged in all the walls.

In 1900, the British Army began using a mobile x-ray unit to locate bullets and shrapnel in wounded soldiers in the Sudan.

The police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the crowd of demonstrators, causing numerous casualties.

Like bullets smashing glass in a silent movie.

In the middle of this, on the back side, in a convenient frame, is placed a small Cylinder, whose circumference is equal to twice the length of one of those divisions, which I find answer to an inch of ascent, or descent, of Mercury: This Cylinder I, is movable on a very small Needle, on the end of which is fixt a very light Index KL, all which are so pois'd on the Axis, or Needle, that no part is heavier then another: Then about this Cylinder is wound a small Clew of Silk, with two small steel Bullets at each end of it GH; one of these, which is somewhat the heavier, ought to be so big, as freely to move to and fro in the Pipe F; by means of which contrivance, every the least variation of the height of the Mercury will be made exceeding visible by the motion to and fro of the small Index KL.

And this I have ad oculum demonstrated with a company of bullets, and some few other very simple bodies; so that there was not any regular Figure, which I have hitherto met withall, of any of those bodies that I have above named, that I could not with the composition of bullets or globules, and one or two other bodies, imitate, even almost by shaking them together.

And thus for instance may we find that the Globular bullets will of themselves, if put on an inclining plain, ... the Surfaces of Alum to be compos'd of: For three bullets lying on a plain, as close to one another as they can compose an Schem.

The drenching misery of Flemish winters, as formidable to the soldiers in the trenches as the bullets of the enemy, became as familiar to the present generation of Americans as did somewhat similar conditions in Virginia to Americans of the Civil War period.

They began to notice a new and significant sound, the thin whistling and piping of bullets passing high over their heads, the smack and40 crack of an occasional one catching some upper portion of the ruined houses past which they marched.

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