This may have been sufficient to account for the failure of the Arab's shot; but in any case, to put a bullet within an inch of the target at so great a range proved him a marksman of the greatest skill.
Harry, taking his field-glasses from their case, scanned the mountain that overtopped the ravine, endeavouring to discover the form of the mysterious and terrible marksman who had created such alarm.
There was no question that the invisible man who commanded the ravine from his hiding-place upon the mountain-side was a marksmanof repute.
Those who had been surprised by the address of the green marksman were now equally pleased by his courtesy.
She thrust two pistols into my belt, which I laid aside again, having mine own more carefully primed with me, to the firing of which my hand was more accustomed--and that to a marksman is more than half the battle.
But I turned my pistols so straightly upon him, that he was convinced that I must be a marksman by trade and so desisted from the attempt.
He had been a soldier, and was said to be the finest marksman in Scotland.
A common wrought nail was driven lightly into the target, its head having been first touched with paint, and the marksman was required to hit it, or he lost his chances in the succeeding trials.
The whole process occupied about half a minute, and as the rifle was drawn in the eye of the marksman was applied to the hole.
A few more tramps on land in my company, and the best marksman on the frontiers will have occasion to look keenly when he takes his stand ag'in you.
As much or as little of the dress of a corps that a judge will order a marksman to adopt.
What is the greatest reward that a marksman can obtain?
Max=, a huntsman, and the best marksman in Germany.
The latter was surprised at finding that the page was able to draw the English bows as well as the archers, and that, although inferior to Long Tom and three or four of the best shots, he was quite as good a marksman as the majority.
The fate of his associate had evidently taught the horseman prudence, for as he moved away he kept his head bent down so as not to expose his face to the aim of the terrible marksman at the window.
It was a tantalizing sight to Hendrik, who would have liked much to have shown his marksman skill by "creasing" one.
Hendrik was par excellence the marksman of the party.
It could easily be seen where the deliberate marksman was getting in his work.
Apparently the diversion had no effect on the marksman within.
Probably enough, that would do him good--it could not do him harm; but it was not because he was a bad marksman that Majuba Hill was so discreditable a reverse.
If any man speaks up and says he is the best marksman in Virginia then every man within hearing challenges him to prove it.
Later in the day I killed a deer with such a minute charge of powder as emphatically to establish my excellence as a marksman for that one shot at least.
Nothing happened; the skilful marksman did not appear to claim his prize; the morning stillness was not broken by so much as a rustling leaf.
The worst marksman could hardly have missed so huge a target, and the exposed wall of the redoubt rang with the impact of hundreds of bullets, only a few of which penetrated, to fall quite harmlessly in the water between the canoes.
I am disappointed that monsieur is not so wonderful a marksman as I had been led to believe.
The Frenchman was too experienced a marksman not to know that he had scored a hit.
He was the best marksman in our whole company, with one single exception; and that exception, I must modestly assert for the sake of truth, was myself.
At this moment the horse discovered the ambushed marksman and snorted.
The newmarksman cleaned and loaded his gun, took careful aim, and off went the musket.
But if no such event was foreseen, the marksman must be judged by the circumstances known to him at the time of shooting.
If an expert marksman contemplated that the arrow would hit a certain person, cadit qucoestio.
Their flight is very rapid and erratic, and accompanied by a peculiar whistling sound made by the rapid motion of the wings; it requires a skillful marksman to bring them down.
The Ruffed Grouse is "King of the Game Birds" in the east, where it has been hunted so freely, that it has become very wary and requires a skillful marksman to bring it down.
It was rash to fire when such a marksman lay near.
By all that's glorious, it's Dave Willet, the Great Bear himself, the greatest hunter andmarksman in all the northern province!
But already the unerring marksman was covering him, and he held his horse rearing, afraid to fire his last load with two foes before him, and to expose himself in the riding away.
He declared that Mr. Marksman had gone into the Snuggery innocently, and had been grossly insulted before he became the originator of the riot there.
The assurance so given, accompanied as it was by the announcement that Valentine was about to form his own judgment of Mr. Marksman by visiting the house in Kirk Street that very night, seemed to quiet and satisfy Mrs. Thorpe.
Among the next applicants for admission at the painting-room door were two whom Valentine had expected to see at a much earlier period of the day--Mr. Matthew Marksman and Zack.
So the young marksman paused, and, settling himself firmly in a crotch of the tree, bent forward.
At the time the marksman could not have been more than fifteen feet away, and a miss was out of the question.
As the smoke cleared away a second cartridge, inserted deftly and quickly, sent another cloud of smoke into the chaparral and the marksman arose to his feet, mechanically reloading his gun.
Again a second shot took care of the horse and the marksman strode to his second victim, from whose body and horse he took another Winchester and Colt.
Leaping up, the marksman hastened back to the side of the sheriff, who did not trouble himself to look up.
So I would take them both on my knee, when the bird would soon notice the kitten's eyes, and leveling his bill as carefully as a marksman levels his rifle, he would remain so a minute when he would dart his tongue into the cat's eye.
