Then after a short space they all three shot again, and once more each arrow lodged within the clout, but this time Adam o' the Dell's was farthest from the center, and again the tattered stranger's shot was the best.

For ordinary purposes, therefore, the calibre I have indicated is all-sufficient; but if a gun is wanted for shooting up to one thousand yards, the shot should be a full ounce weight.

Down below at the bottom of the slope, about half a musket-shot from us, was a snug tiled farm with a hedge and a bit of an apple orchard.

He settled himself on the tackles of a gun; which one Stephenson, from the helm, observing, ran to his assistance, and not perceiving him wounded, swore at him, and bade him stand up and fight like a man; but when he found his mistake, and that his captain was certainly dead, he burst into tears, and wished the next shot might be his portion.

The single shot they had heard, the tell-tale revolver close to the dead man's hand, were clear evidence of what had occurred.

To horse, to horse! That shot is Hennings', and the fight is on!

The former seemed almost deserted, an occasional shot from the high walls directed on our defences in the Chandni Chauk being the only signs of animation in that quarter.

"After what has passed, five or six shots apiece will be hardly outré.

This shot was the signal for a broadside, and a shower of balls with three or four shells came screaming through the air striking the walls of the fort, or exploding over it.

A "shot" was a subject in these men's vocabulary.

Of course a bad shot should be hunga man who shatters his birds' wings and legs; if I undertook the trade, I would learn of some Southern duellist, and always shoot my bird through the head or heartas an expert murderer knows how.

"Halloa, there!" shouted Captain Spinnet, as the luckless pirates crowded around the lee gangway of their prize, "when you find them silver dollars, just let us know, will you?" Half a dozen pistol shots was all the answer the old man got, but they did him no harm; and, crowding up all sail, he made for the vessel he had discovered, which lay dead to leeward of him, and which he made out to be a large ship.

Commodore Rodgers, being aboard the President, hailed the sloop and asked: "What sloop is that?" A cannon-shot was his reply.

The shot itself was an alarm.

This shot is a misleading finger-post.

The result of this, my first hunt, was that I actually saw but three bear, and got but one shot, which, I am ashamed to record, was a miss.

The following are some of the fundamental shots you should attempt to include in your repertoire: Rails: Your "bread and butter" shots, similar to Squash Racquets, are the "rails" or shots hit straight up and down, parallel to the side wall.

Kurt's shot was a starter for Olsen's men.

Perhaps an inquisitive Boche, somewhere a mile or two on the left, had thought he saw someone approaching his barbed wire; a few shots are exchangeda shout or two, followed by more shotspanicmore shotspanic spreadingthen suddenly the whole line of trenches on a front of a couple of miles succumbs to that well-known malady, "wind up.

"I have heard say at Rome," says Brantome on the contrary, "that it was held that he who fired that wretched arquebuse-shot was a priest."

The shots have not been unkindly ones; and I am glad of the result, viz.

An' my shot at the Germans will be wheat.

"By George, that last shot was a dandy for a tenderfoot!

Among the arquebusiers the best shot was a certain Juan de Leon.

"That's to show the old gintleman we are ready and ain't frightened, be he the divil himself, or only a few of his children, that ye call the poor Injuns!" "And whoever it is, he is evidently as little frightened as you; that shot was a direct challenge to us.