Every man who was a little more prominent than his neighbour seemed a target for every kind of insinuation and criticism.

He became the target of every kind of fire, guns, machine guns, and rifles opening on him from the ridge whenever he exposed himself.

We fired gas shells continuously for many hours, switching from one target to another, until a strong wind got up, rendering gas shelling comparatively ineffective.

He had two Schutzenfest targets in his cuffs; in one hand he held an enormous cane, in the other a cigar, and through an eyeglass he gazed at the ankles on the gang-plank with an air of patient weariness with this slow old world that was very touching.

He could choose his target at his leisure, for I could not resist.

No. 4 gun was now engaging two different targets with alternate rounds and different charges.

You know, Lanpher, a man is a whole lot bigger target than the branch of a wild currant bush.

Present as small a target as possible to the enemy by utilizing every bit of cover the ground affords.

Beth De Graf had brought along an archery outfit, and she set up her target on the ample green the day following her arrival.

I tell you, it ain't possible, hardly, for him to have planned to hit a swingin' target like that.

In one doorway two men were seeking to render their uniforms less of a target by inking their brass-buttons black, while two rollicking fellows perched high upon a bread-wagon were making the welkin ring with vociferous demands for passage way.

As they had been as soft as wax, he pierced the targets through With javelins of the hollow cane that in the vega grew; Not one could stand before the Moor; the tilters turned and fled, For by his exploits was revealed the warrior's name of dread.

Because we could no longer see as many targets before us, the fire was slackened considerably, and then some one on the outer lines of our defensive circle shouted: "They are bringin' up the Tories!

The first was a perfect shot and hit the target between the shoulder-blades, and the second burst with fearful force against the wall of the café.

It resulted that we could not hit any targets within a considerable distance of the Austrian front line, but this, we were told, did not matter.

II Mons And Paris Back from Belgium to England; then across the Channel again to Boulogne, where I saw the last of the French garrison march away, their red trousers a throbbing target along the road.

I should not forget some Highland claymores, clustered round a target over the Canterbury people, nor a writing-box of carved wood, lined with crimson velvet, and furnished with silver plate of right venerable aspect, which looked as if it might have been the implement of old Chaucer himself, but which from the arms on the lid must have belonged to some Indian prince of the days of Leo the Magnificent at the furthest.

It was easier for them than for him to be letter-perfect in the test, as he had to guard against the exhilaration of having an enemy's ship instead of a cloth target under his eye.

Where I once was accustomed to walk in the fields, so far out of town as even to shoot at a target against the trees with impunity, now there are spacious streets and splendid houses and gardens.