The proof shot weighs, like the service projectile, 1,800 lb.

I wish I could blow them asunder with a charge of duck-shot, and I shouldn't be stifled by them long.

I wish it was like Sir Amyrald's time, when they shot the York mercer that came to dun him, and no one ever took anyone to task about it; and now they can pelt you at any distance they please through the post; and fellows lose their spirits and their appetite and any sort of miserable comfort that is possible in this odious abyss.

We had not gone much farther, when we beheld three naked women, followed by sixteen or seventeen men, flying with the greatest swiftness from our men, who shot one of them in our sight.

Sir, said he, the only method is to keep them off with our great shot as long as we are able, and then have recourse to our small arms: and when both these fail us, then retire to close quarters, when perhaps the enemy wanting materials, can neither break open our bulk heads, nor get in upon us.

But our brave commander gallops up to them by himself, shot one dead, knocked another of his horse, while the third ran away; and thus ended our battle with the Tartars.

Hereupon we ordered the two wings to move on, and give them a salute with their shot; which accordingly was done.

Our old pilot, the Portuguese, proved both our captain and engineer, and desired us not to fire, till they came within pistol shot; and when he gave the word of command, then to take the surest aim: but he did not bid us give fire, till they were within two pikes length of us, and then we filled fourteen of them, wounded several, as also their horses, having every one of us loaded our pieces with two or three bullets at least.

The cruel wretch her husband was shot by the pursuers; too good a death for one who deserved the gibbet; and the lady was universally lamented by all tender and religious people.

The Spaniards had landed, before he knew what they were; and they came so near him, that he had much ado to escape; for they not only shot at him, but pursued him to the woods, where he climbed to the top of a tree, at the foot of which they made water, and killed several goats just by, but went off again without discovering him.

I shall not lie in wait with a shot-gun for my landlord.

Medical evidence certified William as sane enough to understand the nature of his offence, but as the War is over it is unlikely that he will be shot at dawn.

I took a snap shot at the lower one, but missed.

My second shot went over him, and Copple's hit between his legs.

I got a shot before Copple saw them.

Copple shot again.

Upon my return to Copple I found he had collected his two turkeys, both shot in the neck in the same place.

Haught told me that if Dan and Tom saw him shoot at a deer they would chase it till they dropped; accordingly he never shot at anything except bear and lion when he had these hounds with him.

But I couldn't have shot" A crash of brush interrupted me.

I got one snap shot at his fleeting blurred image and missed him.

Here's where he started after you shot.

Suddenly Don Carlos shot up his ears.

"You take me for big cat?" "Yes, George, and I might have shot you.

And he was such a splendid shot that he had often "barked" squirrels, as was a noted practice of the old pioneer.

And my weightI was weighing a good thirteen stone at that time, being a big and hefty youngstercarried me down and down into the green water, for I had been shot over the side with considerable impetus.