I am simply bringing all this up to show you that we are not out of the mess yet--not by a long shot.
Cursing his cowardice, I fired a long shot at him, and reloading my last spare ball I continued the chase, led on by ignorance and excitement.
On the way I tried a long shotat a heron with a rifle; he was standing at about a hundred and fifty yards from us, and by great good luck I killed him.
Men are bloodthirsty animals, for nothing can exceed the pleasure, after making a long shot, of finding the blood-track on the spot when the animal is gone.
Sir Lucius says) be very pretty small-sword light, though it will not do for a long shot.
Reloading, while my men bled the dead buck, I fired a long shot at the dense mass of antelopes who were now in full retreat at about 600 yards' distance crowded together in thousands.
One of the men, in revenge, fired a long shot at a great male, who was sitting alone upon a high rock, and by chance the ball struck him in the head.
I fired a long shot at a drake; the bird flew a considerable distance and towered, falling about a quarter of a mile distant.
I sneaked out of the brook willows, took a long shot at the beast who struck her, and then pulled foot.
Also we saw our dragoons and militia take three prisoners and three horses before we finally turned bridle after our last long shot at their rear guard.
The male fell to a long shot, but rose again and escaped.
It was a long shot, yet I struck him fairly, and he rose instantly right upward, towering high!
Good as fur as it goes," replied Kerins, "but it don't go fur enough by a long shot.
Warner, and Warner cried back: "Not by a long shot!
Not by a long shot," said Sergeant Whitley, resting his rifle across the pommel of his saddle.
The fish came up and gave the second mate a long shot just as she was going down; but a harpoon easily enters a whale's bent back so he got fast and "A fall!
As the beast generally went down when one was about twenty yards away, a long shot had to be taken with a very clumsy gun.
They pulled hard and took a long shot as it humped its back going down.
Not by a long shot, nor would it hev suited any other uv them fellers, be they Greek or be they Trojan.
It must hev been a long shot or he must hev been nearly hid, else he would now be layin' dead in the bushes.
The mashie is meant to loft, and it is practically impossible to play a long shot with it without lofting the ball very much and exposing it to all the wind that there is about.
You cannot follow through properly with a long shot if your eye remains fastened on the ground.
It don't amount to five thousand dollars, by a long shot.
Mind you, that is Elam's way of looking at it, but it aint mine, by a long shot.
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