41.   When Laertes comes on carrying a rifle and looking for Hamlet, you might think he had been hunting squirrels.

42.   When he answered it, Alford was standing toe-to-toe with a man in fatigues carrying a rifle.

43.   Within moments the place was filled with men in uniforms carrying rifles and screaming.

44.   Young Palestinian men carrying semiautomatic rifles cast wary glances upward as they cursed two American-made Apache helicopters patrolling overhead against a pale blue sky.

45.   Yet these guards, who served as the first line of defense against the guerrillas, have spent years carrying rifles.

46.   Police cars followed at a distance, and police officers were seen in the city wearing bulletproof vests and carrying automatic rifles.

47.   Police also carried automatic rifles.

48.   A policeman carrying a rifle picked up a little girl with his other hand and ran for cover.

49.   A nun, who gave her name as Marie Therese, said the assailant had approached her carrying a rifle.

50.   Accompanying him were his customary female bodyguards, carrying rifles and wearing bedouin-style scarves.