Unable to resist such a temptation, two of our noted marksmen instantly drew their sights and let fly.
The provincial marksmen then rapidly advancing, flew each to his tree, and the action began.
We are far better riders, better woodsmen, and better marksmen than they.
Our marksmen presently stopped one of Muckleworth's captains, and several of his men, who lay dead on the ground at the very spot where we happened to join the advance.
Fog not only prevented the British airmen from doing their best work, but it kept the marksmen on the German aircraft also from hitting the ships on the waters beneath them.
British marksmen at once fired on the bodies and hawklike wings of the intruders.
But the natural aptitude of the Colonial as a hunter soon asserted itself, and cunning marksmen proceeded to stalk the wily snipers.
The marksmen of the Canterburys took the enemy snipers by surprise, and established a moral superiority over them.
It was known that Tom Allen Day was one of the best marksmen in the county, so Mrs. Martin, in an effort to help Rayburn and Humphrey escape, ran toward the barn where Day was ambushed.
As marksmen the posse surpassed the Tollivers in this street battle for only one of their number was wounded and that was Bud Madden.
Indian and Canadian marksmen were posted among the trees and bushes which skirted the plains.
They planted a row of stakes within their palisade, to form a double fence, and filled the intervening space with earth and stones to the height of a man, leaving twenty loopholes or more, at each of which three marksmen were stationed.
Half the garrison was on duty every night, and 16 marksmenfrom the whole number kept watch all day on the Towers.
Moreover the difficulty of the ground for siege operations soon became apparent, and the nearer the lines were drawn to the walls the more danger was incurred from the marksmen on the Towers.
When the fire which Robert Harburgh had lighted burned up, we that were marksmen lost no chances at any who showed so much as an arm or a leg.
For there were marksmen who had their pieces trained on that place.
They rode together in the park every morning, keeping well out of range of marksmen in the hills.
They could not locate the opposing marksmen on account of the blinding light in their faces.
Half of the marksmen fired to the right of the rook, the others at its crest.
At the same time the marksmen on and at the right of the bald knob continued to fire.
Courtenay wished to make sure at the outset of the number of guns carried by the savages; it was also important to know whether their marksmen were distributed, or crowded together in one or two canoes.
A moment more and the fugitives would be out of range; but the Canadian was of that class of marksmen who lodge a ball in the eye of a beaver, that he may not injure its skin; and it was the horse he wished to aim at.
The American marksmen assembled at the Walnut Hill range of the Massachusetts Rifle Association, near Boston, devoting three days to preliminary practice shooting and selecting the team.
It is the recognized national organization of the revolver and pistol marksmen of the United States of America.
Rumors of a challenge from the revolver marksmen of France for an international contest were also rife at this time.
The League contest which is conducted by this association affords excellent practice indoors, and enables the marksmen to keep In good form during the winter months.
So modified this would be a practical sight for target shooting and would be a boon to many of the older marksmen whose sight is failing and who find it more and more difficult to shoot in artificial light with the ordinary sights.
The more experienced shot, by entering these contests is enabled to compare his skill with that of the leadingmarksmen of the country, and accurately determine his position among them from year to year.
They demonstrated to the marksmen and the manufacturers of the arms that fine shooting approximating to that of the rifle was possible with the revolver, by developing the necessary skill in shooting and perfecting the ammunition.
Unfortunately, the marksmen of each locality made their own rules and adopted independent standards as to targets, weapons, etc.
A certain number of these marksmen sheltered themselves behind the epaulments of the camp; and each time a gunner attempted to load a piece, they infallibly shot away his hands.
Our Kentuckian rifles are wonderfully true, and our marksmen possess a far from common skill; but no bullet can hit him.
My plea was rather indulged than sustained; and the marksmen who had taken more than one shot commenced the second round.
Though for the most part entirely unused to the new Lee-Metford rifle, they secured the Kolapore Cup, and, in a year which produced record scores, held their own against the picked marksmen of our Regulars and Volunteer Army.
One only of the boats escaped, drifting down the Ganges, a target for innumerable marksmen on both banks.
I will not say but that we have some good marksmen here, and that this Company would be accounted a fine body of archers at any time or place.
We have marksmen in the Company who will notch with a shaft every crevice and joint of a man-at-arm's harness, from the clasp of his bassinet to the hinge of his greave.
By this means we made ourselves pretty fair marksmen at the stationary target, but when Billy talked about going out to shoot pigs, I said that he would find it a very different matter to hit a moving thing.
Besides this, Mr. Preston was one of the most noted hunters and marksmen in the settlement, and he gave Ned thorough training in the art which is always such a delight for a boy to acquire.
There was no light burning in the upper story, for the reason that it was likely to serve as a guide to some of the Indian marksmen who might steal up near enough to fire through the loopholes.
The marksmen promptly reloaded, but no more firing was necessary.
The marksmen of the Regals remounted; Guardlex formed his squadron in rank entire, and galloped in upon the Hussars.
The boats were taken out into mid-stream, when suddenly a bugle blew; the boatmen sprang into the river, and from both banks lines of hidden sepoy marksmen began to pick off the betrayed Feringhis.
A number of my fellow-marksmen had clambered up the adjacent trees, others were concealed in the dense undergrowth, while a small body still remained in the rear, prepared to charge when commanded.
Expert marksmen these pagans were, and at this moment proved themselves of the utmost value.
The marksmen in the machines were cut to pieces; the rest pursued to the cut in the ramparts.
He crossed to where the two horses of the slain marksmenwere hidden, turned one of them loose and mounted the other.
From above they were protected from the fire of the Indians upon the bluff by the height of the bowlder at the foot of which they lay, while another just in front hid them from possible marksmen across the canyon.
The fire was blazing high, and they thought of what marksmen among the trees and bushes were ready to shoot by the light of it.
Much more interesting at first to the mounted marksmen was the fact that it was also dotted by several small droves of wild cattle.
The marksmen had had time to see the willow, and Dick ensconced among its boughs; and though the lad instantly sprang higher up the bank, and ran for his life, he was yet not quick enough to escape a shot.
Best of all, by turning up the glade he had defeated their preparations; there were no marksmen posted higher up than the one whom he had just killed or wounded; and the confusion of the foresters' counsels soon became apparent.
But out of this dozen, three had been gravely wounded: two at Risingham in the disorder of the rout, one by John Amend-All's marksmen as he crossed the forest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marksmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
