He glanced at the ground and saw several figures in a prone position, weapons cradled in the crooks of their elbows as they started to slowly crawl toward the tree line.

Then came the anger, a sharp red spear of it when she spotted the antique weapon cradled in the arms of a teddy bear.

The pirates crouched in the corridor, weapons cradled in their arms, their eyes keen.

He gave the two men a hostile stare, jerked the gun barrel toward the base of the cliff and followed a few paces behind, his weapon cradled in his arm.

Then he advanced, his weapons cradled one in each arm and pointed ahead.

Gil met him at the bottom of the stairs, his knife returned to its sheath and weapon cradled nervously.

"You said you weren't that good with a pistol," Vonn said, rising with the guard's weapon cradled in his arms.

He held the heavy weapon cradled in his hands, the bipod hanging impotently below the barrel as the gun jumped in his arms.

After an undecided second in which she did not know what to do with the weapon cradled in her arms, she raised it halfway and fired from less than five meters' range.