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.

We dropped quietly back behind the point, where Smith and one of the boatmen prepared to take a shot at them.

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.

Sir Richard, finding himself in this condition after fifteen hours' hard fighting, and having received about eight hundred shots from great guns, besides various assaults from the enemy, and seeing, moreover, no way by which he might prevent his ship falling into the hands of the Spanish, commanded the master gunner, whom he knew was a most resolute man, to split and sink the ship.

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

Nay, with a little cudgelling this dull Brain of mine I shall advance it farther for the Jest-sake;as I take it, Signior Don Antonio, you have a fine Villa, within a Bow-shot of this City belonging to your self.

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

It was Spalding's third shot in all his life at a deer, and he insisted, gravely enough, that he did not fire while the game was standing broadside to him, on account of his desire to give the animal a chance for his life.

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.

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.

"I loaded my double-barrelled gun by candle-light I put plenty of powder and a handful of shot into each barrel.

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

He was some six or eight rods from us, and Spalding gave him a shot with his rifle.

They had heard the dropping shots on the top of the Cape for nearly an hour and had been quick to notice the change to a regular hot fire.

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.

For George lost both his legs; and Bill's stone blind; Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die; And Bert's gone syphilitic; you'll not find A chap who served there hasn't found some change.'

"We'll try a couple of shots for luck," said Frank.