19 Metaphors for shooting

Fast shooting ain't any good when it's one man agin' fifty, and these boys mean business.

Shooting is the usual form of execution for all but the most despicable crimes.

Valuable for soups and pies in winter, and in summer the young shoots are an excellent substitute for Asparagus.

You see the underlying scheme, yet the separate shoots are not quite mechanicalthey lean away from each other, that joint is a trifle shorterthere wasn't quite room at the start in that stem, and the pressure goes on showing right up to the top, I suppose our lives would look very nearly as geometrical to anyone who knewreally knew; but how little geometrical we feel!

Pistol shooting is simply a matter of a sure eye and steady nerves, combined with a greater or less period of practice.

"And his shooting himself in the shoulder was a bluff.

Pigeon-shooting with decoys is a very favourite amusement among the Cotswold farmers.

Tyrrel he smiled full grim that day, Quod 'Shooting of kings is no bairns' play;'

Yet there was a growing feeling that the shooting of Lewis through the hand had not been an accident, for the whole demeanor of Donnegan composed the action of a man who is a professional trouble maker.

The shooting was of course still the property of the old man, and in the early months had, without many words spoken, become, as it were, an appanage of the condition of life to which Augustus aspired; but of late Mountjoy had assumed the command.

"Covert-shooting is the game, my boy;" he will say, "most difficult thing in the world when the pheasants are tall, and the finest test of a real sportsman," and with that he will miss his twentieth grouse, and call down imprecations on the dogs, the light, the keeper, and his own companions.

Pistol-shooting is pleasant sport enough, and there is no reason why you should not practise it like other young fellows.

We repeat, that the shooting of itinerant abolition schoolmasters is frequently a creditable and laudable act, entitling a respectable Southern man to, at least, a seat in the Legislature or a place in the Common Council.

" Hence, the greater the crime the greater the advertisement; from that point of view, the shooting of President McKinley, under circumstances so atrocious, is so far the greatest achievement of the "propaganda of action.

The shooting of the back settlers is rather business than sport.

The wind blew so hard that accurate shooting was an impossibility.

"The shooting of the dog is quite a mystery," said Byrne, by way of conversation.

Snipe-shooting was my motive there; and dull work it was in those dark, Novembry, October days, with "the low rain falling" half the time, and the yellow leaves all the time, and no snipe.

If the latter shoot be a cutting from some plant that will root in water, such as Ivy, it will not fade at all.

19 Metaphors for  shooting