Moreover, I prophesy that we will gabble about this mess until we find a newer target for our stone throwing, and be just as friendly with the participants to their faces as we ever were.

They descended the ridge at the trot, unlimbered in front of the sixth parallel, and, coming into action, fired with great effect on the Russian infantry, which offered a broad target.

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

The French and Belgian officers are dangerously ornamented with gilt trimmings during warfare and present such brilliant targets that some of the Belgian regiments during hard fighting with the Germans have lost nearly all of their leaders.

When the torpedo strikes its target, the gun is fired and the shell strikes the outside plating of the ship.

The howling and yelling of the savages at the powwow continued until near to midnight, and the noise had hardly more than died away when the commandant came to where I was stationed, halting a moment to gaze in the direction of the Indian camp before he asked: "Have you seen any targets in this direction lately?"

They carry targets blazoned bright with scimitars arow, But each deadly blade is deftly made into a Cupid's bow.

True it was that if he had not entered the complaint, perhaps the arms would not have been taken up, and poor Tales would not have been captured; but he, Fray Clemente, had to look after his own safety, and that Tales had a way of staring at him as if picking out a good target in some part of his body.

"When we had partly formed and were very much bunched together, making a fine target, suddenly out of the mist arrived five or six shells from a point not 150 yards away.

During that time he furnished an excellent target, and the loose sandstone showed where each shot struck.

A gigantic savage discharged his musket with seemingly true aim directly at my head; but, strangely enough, missed the target, and then he came at me, hatchet in hand, with such fury that for an instant it seemed as if I was at his mercy.

There stood a negro on the prow of each almadia, having a round target, apparently of leather, on his arm; and for some time they neither attacked us, nor we them.

At one end stood the target, at the other a tent of striped canvas, from the pole of which fluttered many-colored flags and streamers.

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.

They afforded a target which was fully used by the men behind the Belgian machine guns.

To this Will Scarlet took heed, so the next arrow he shot lodged fairly in the center ring; again he shot, and again he smote the center; but, for all that, stout Hubert had outshot him, and showed the better target.

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

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

He was saving his fire until his observers gave him a real target to aim at.

He bears a rounded target, whose quarterings display The full moon darting through the clouds her ineffectual ray.

After delays connected with the telephone, we succeeded in registering two targets.

Each platoon leader puts into execution the commands or directions of the captain, having first taken such precautions to insure correct sight setting and clear description of the target or aiming target as the situation permits or requires; thereafter he gives such additional commands or directions as are necessary to exact compliance with the captain's will.

He designates the target, and, when practicable, allots a part of the target to each platoon.

In the training of men in the mechanism of the firing line, they should be practiced in repeating to one another target and aiming point designations and in quickly locating and pointing out a designated target.

Exposed for hours to cannonade and musketry, unable to act from the nature of the ground, they never flinched from their post, forming a living target to the fire of the rebels.