" In their huts the poor coolies heard the shots and the terrible roars and growls and dared not come to their master's assistance.

As usual, the Saheb carried a loaded revolver and as he ran he fired several shots at the animal.

" The men fell back, and the few hunters who had not yet fired took their shots, but without coming nearer the mark.

It was now agreed that Jim Scraggs and Dick Varley, being the two best shots, should try over again, and it was also agreed that Dick should have the use of Blunt's rifle.

Just about then he heard a couple of loud shots, and saw two white smoke-columns ascend.

Bennington's trips to see the effect of his shots proved to him the fiendish propensity of everything he touched, were it never so lightly, to sprinkle him with cold water.

Neither shot had staggered his huge bulk, twenty such shots would not have killed him.

He heard other rifle shots, which were like a new kind of thunder.

He struck out savagely, and Langdon and Bruce could hear his bellowing as they stood with fingers on the triggers of their rifles waiting for the dogs to draw away far enough to give them the final shots.

Later Muskwa heard the shots.

There was nothing more beautiful than the work of a well-bred and well-broken brace of Pointers, or more perfect than the way a man got his shots from them.

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

Of course, out of six shots, fired at all distances from forty paces to fifteen, one may hit him: but as for being killed!...

For a week, perhaps, you go hurtling through a closely articulated programme almost as personally helpless as a package in a pneumatic tubenight expresses, racing military motors, snap-shots at this and that, down a bewildering vista of long gray capes, heel clickings, stiff bows from the waist, and military salutes.

Those who did not agree with them were men without souls, hagglers and traders, as if a nation could figure out the number of cannon-shots and prisoners, and go where the going's good!

For an hour or so the shots have been rattling all round the house and on the sheds in the stable-yard.

But such hits were few and far between, and they were lucky, casual shots, of which the Germans themselves did not have the satisfaction of knowing.

The front line trench was not far from that of the Germans, but there was no activity beyond that of the snipers, and the Germans were being so cautious that ours were getting mighty few shots.

And I knew that my shot would be watched; Normabell, sitting up there on the Pimple in his little observatory, would watch it, as he did all of that battery's shots. Would be make a report?

He had heard three shots nearly a mile away, and she was still sobbing that DeBar was dead.

They include the best riders and the best shots in the cattle business.

" The rustlers fired two shots at this moment, when the horseman was more of a target than his animal, but he gave no heed to that; it was she for whom he felt concern.

She would soon leave them out of sight, unless it should prove she was disabled by some of the shots.

There were shots, hastily exchanged, glimpses of forms slinking away across the fields.

This was evidently the feeling of the populace, and public demonstrations took place which menaced revolution, and on one occasion shots were fired, and the demonstrators were dispersed by the cavalry.