Nay, you tell me that, according to your code of honour, if one man insults another, he who gives the provocation, and he who receives it, rather than be disgraced in the eyes of their countrymen, will go out, and quietly shoot at each other with firearms, till one of them is killed or wounded; and this too, in many cases, when the injury has been merely nominal.

At each step that I took, sharp pains shot through my limbs.

Dragon-flies shoot in vigorous zigzags through the dancing swarms, and a rich profusion of butterfliesthe leguminosae of insectsmake a fine addition to the general show.

Winter storms blow snow through the cañon in blinding drifts, and avalanches shoot from the heights.

When, however, we succeeded in gaining an advantageous position, it was necessary to shoot with extreme accuracy.

The first avalanche of the season shot into a lake basin may perhaps find the surface frozen.

" Before the girl could respond beyond an answering smile and "good morning," the new friend had put his own alpenstock into her hands and gone to the roadside, where, with unerring judgment, he selected a long, straight, tapering shoot of ash, and hewed it deftly with a monster jack-knife drawn from his trousers pocket.

We passed by the ruins of Roosbeck, where civilians had shot on the 20th Artillery Regiment, for which reason it was burnt down.

Think of shooting for the head with a snap shot!

When her bows went up she sheered, as if she meant to shoot across the hollow left by the sea that rolled by.

" In the west the splendour and the terror shot to the zenith.

Mac's voice was machine-madeas innocent of modulation as a buzz-saw, and with the same uncompromising finality as the shooting of a bolt.

Dr. Moncrieff's lantern, which was a large one, without any means of shutting up,an old-fashioned lantern with a pierced and ornamental top,shone steadily, the rays shooting out of it upward into the gloom.

This match I won and then Belden proposed to shoot a one hundred yard match, as I was shooting over his distance.

We floated quietly down the Rackett, carrying our boats around the falls, shooting like an arrow down the rapids, or gliding along under the shadows of the gigantic forest trees that line the long, calm reaches of that beautiful river.

At the first-named he had two horses shot under him; and in all he distinguished himself by coolness and bravery.

We shot past him, and turned him back in a direction towards the island again, and I picked up my rifle to settle the matter.

Notwithstanding his preoccupations, W. managed to get a few days' shooting in November.

Concentrations on enemy trenches and wire and special counter-battery shoots by day and counter-battery support of Infantry raids by night were continually required of us.

For a single instant the very substance of the rock glowed white hot; then from the spot a shower of spiteful flakes shot as from a pyrotechnic, and the light was blotted out as suddenly as it came.

What flame can he shoot without arrow or bow?"

All shooting at game, even for food, except on most urgent occasions, is strictly forbidden, for a rifle shot may be as misleading to our own patrols and outposts as it would be inviting to the Hun.

After dinner, went out shooting near Jebanah, and bagged a few partridges, but, not returning before the sun went down, the Bey sent a dozen fellows bawling out our names, fearing some harm had befallen us.

I dreamt that someone was setting me free, and I seemed to feel that sharp anguish which shoots along the nerves when ropes, which are bound so tightly as to stop the flow of blood, are suddenly cut from the numbed limbs.

At this instant the quick-running Churi would have caught Kaetheli; but quick as a deer, Erick rushed forth, opened his arms wide and so stopped Churi until Kaetheli had shot around the cottage, fleet as an arrow, and again to her goal on the meadow, where she could get her breath without fear of being caught.