297 Verbs to Use for the Word shot

Madame de MacMahon came up to me, saying: "Madame Waddington, Sa Majeste demande les nouvelles de M. Waddington," upon which His Majesty planted himself directly in front of me, so close that he almost touched me, and asked in a quick, abrupt manner, as if he were firing off a shot: "Ou est votre mari?"

While I was standing thus bewildered, the men, who had heard the shot and the war-whoop and had seen the Indian take a tumble, came rushing back.

I had not noticed it loose, as I took my shot; and then, as I stood up, it had slipped away from beneath me ...

They felt a little sore at not getting a single shot at the buffaloes, but the way I had killed them had, they said, amply repaid them for their disappointment.

They came on in pursuit and sent several scattering shots after us, but we easily left them behind.

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.

A set of Imperialist junks set to work to fire at the town as we were leaving off, throwing their shot from a most wonderfully safe distance.

Every step sent a shoot of pain through him, but he set his teeth and kept moving.

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

"Try a shot, Mr. Harrison.

"Yet I hear that you have been wrangling over me with Mr. Charles Grey, and exchanging pistol shots.

If it hadn't been so, he would not have missed his shot.

Believe me, Mr. Garvald, I have seen some pretty shots, but I have never seen your better.

Immediately the Spaniards poured in their shot, by which only one man was killed, and Drake, with some others, slightly wounded; upon which the signal was given by Drake's whistle to fall upon them.

As the Indians watched, they suddenly saw shoot out from another ledge above the sheep a mountain lion, which alighted on the sheep's neck, and both animals fell whirling over the cliff and struck the slide rock below.

At the same moment Schell fired, but his assailants returned the shot and wounded him.

(2) Cut two shoots of any plant, leave one on the table and place the other in a glass of water.

We stalked him in the woods and alders, which were very thick, within 300 yards, and here I should have risked a shot at his hindquarters showing up brown against the hillside, and seemingly as large as a horse.

"The beggar puts one shot every five minutes through the same window.

And the flower had been planted by a fortunate hand; and it grew, threw out new shoots, and bore flowers every year.

Maskee!" he added, wearily "we couldn't waste a shot at 'em now even if they were real.

He was now about 125 yards away, and offered an excellent shot as he paused and raised his head to scent the breeze; but Nikolai whispered, "No," and we worked nearer, crawling forward when the bear's head was down, and lying flat and close when his head was up.

Howard watched Sir Stephen as he played his first shot: his hand was perfectly steady, and he soon showed that he was a first-rate player.

Fired with this inhuman and insolent treatment, he curled his whiskers, as was his custom when he was angry, and, entering Porto Ferino with his great ships, discharged his shot so fast upon the batteries and castles, that in two hours the guns were dismounted, and the works forsaken, though he was, at first, exposed to the fire of sixty cannon.

The standards are produced by choosing a young Portugal plant and gradually removing the side-shoots on the lower part of the stem, and when the desired height is reached a well-balanced head is cultivated, any eyes that break out on the stem being rubbed off with the thumb.

297 Verbs to Use for the Word  shot