He succeeded in arresting two of them, but the third made fight; and upon being shot in the shoulder, fled to a sluice, where the dogs succeeded in drowning him before assistance could arrive.
So long as such a state of things is permitted to exist, just so long will every man who has an enemy (and there are but few who have not) be in constant danger of being shot down in the streets.
The order concludes as follows: Civilians who, in spite of this, continue to ride bicycles, expose themselves to being shot by German troops.
He was ordered to keep religiously to the main road all the way back, on pain of being shot on sight, and to report at headquarters here immediately on his arrival.
If their bullets come near us, it will be time to think whether it will be worth running the risk of being shot.
You will, I doubt not, be far happier living on shore with a charming young wife, than knocking about at sea with the chance of being shot or drowned.
Fortunately none of them liked to run the risk of being shot, and remained quiet.
As he said, he had had enough of being shot, and so there was an end of it.
What have I to gain by fighting you except a very good chance of being shot?
I have had enough of being shot as it is, and we will play this game out upon the old lines, until I win it.
We take our chances pretty well every day of getting our necks broke one way or another, and when that is so one don't think much more of the chance of being shot than of other chances.
I know I shall always look back upon this as the jolliest time of my life, and I am lucky to have gone through it without having been damaged by a cow, or having my neck broken by a broncho, or being shot by an Indian.
Being shot at six hours out of twenty-four he thought was better than living as he was obliged to live now.
I shall not expose him to the chance of being shot.
Though you are five feet ten inches high, that shall not save you from being shot.
Sure of being shot if they were discovered, almost equally sure of being drowned if they effected their escape, they, nevertheless, resolved to attempt crossing the Channel in their fragile skiff.
It would certainly be weary work to be shut up there for perhaps a year while his friends were fighting the battles of his country; but it would be better after all to put up with that than to run any extreme risk of being shot.
Of course, there is the risk of being shot, but somehow one never seems to think of that.
I should have cheated them, sir; but unfortunately I came across an old acquaintance who denounced me, and I had a narrow escape of being shot.
Of this all are fully aware, and hence take the risk of being shot.
I can tell you it is not very pleasant to stand out in the cold for hours together, with the chance of being shot at any moment.
No one could go into the field or step from his own door without danger of being shot by some Indian lying in ambush.
No one could venture abroad without danger of being shot.
All who belong to Annawan's company are ordered to approach by that entrance, and none can from any other direction without danger of being shot.
The people were so excited that not an Indian could step outside the limits of the reservation without the risk of being shot at sight.
I should have cheated them, sir; but, unfortunately, I came across an old acquaintance who denounced me, and I had a narrow escape of being shot.
In the course of the day a Versaillese officer summoned them to surrender within a quarter of an hour on pain of being shot.
The prisoners were forced, on pain of being shot, to lie down all night in the mud.
Any individual without a uniform ran the risk of being shotif he had not a well-known name to recommend him.
They were below the level of the terrace, so that none of them was at present in danger of being shot.
General, terrified alike by the speed of the hydroplane and the risk of being shot by his own men.
But they've got no arms except machetes and their tools, and they won't run the risk of being shot at.
I would have every man believe I shall only take my chance of being shot by the enemy, but if I do not take that chance I am certain of being shot by my friends.
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