It was fired by a sharpshooter on our own side, who had mistaken her for one of the advancing Rebels.
A few days later the sharpshooter came to the house and learned that it was a ministering angel in the guise of a woman he had shot at.
But a Boer sharpshooterdropped Sanders wounded in his tracks.
The Boer sharpshooter was still abroad and, turning his attention to Chalmers, shot that brave officer, who fell mortally wounded from his horse.
General Stevenson was killed by a sharpshooter at that time.
A Johnny sharpshooter had fired from a distance at the fire; the ball, passing between the man's legs, hit the cup; the fires were put out directly after that.
You're certainly the grandest sharpshooter in the whole canton, in all Switzerland, I should say.
Nowadays a man turns sharpshooter haphazard, and there are fellows wearing the green coat who couldn't bring down a cat off the roof, but who, to be sure, can smoke cigars and act the gentleman.
Hence the practice period for the sharpshooter recruits, which was just about to begin, came at a very welcome time.
At this the Confederate sharpshooter muttered something Deck did not catch.
Looking down, Deck saw a sharpshooter gazing up at him.
The gun was still pointed at Deck's head while the sharpshooter remained partly screened by some brush.
Whether he hit his man or not he could not tell, but the sharpshooter disappeared.
The Confederate sharpshooter lay flat on his chest, peering through the bottom of some brush.
There are two magnolias over there--just the spot for such a sharpshooter as you, Lee.
So far he had heard or seen nothing to awaken his suspicion, and he was beginning to think that no sharpshootercould be within a hundred feet of him, if as close.
The sharpshooter addressed complied, the lantern was lit, and the major began a hunt.
Another sharpshooter had espied him in the act of leaping across the stream.
The Confederate sharpshooterwas silent for an instant, and shifted an immense quid of plug tobacco from one cheek to the other.
As I said to the men that interviewed me before, we went to the range at one time, and he didn't show no particular aspects of being a sharpshooter at all.
When you speak of ratings of sharpshooter and marksman, is it correct that the scale runs--marksman is the lowest, sharpshooter the next highest, and expert would be the highest category?
In other words, he was two points over the minimum for sharpshooter and the designation "MM" on his record was an error?
Did you mention what the minimum score for sharpshooter would have been at that point?
You have both a sharpshooterand an expert badge; is that correct?
That may make a difference, and if it does, we may have to ask Mr. Sharpshooter Engle a few questions.
The Sharpshooter flashed his gold teeth at him in a cheerful smile.
He resented Engle's easy and arrogant assumption of mental superiority, and was thankful for a chance to remind The Sharpshooter of one skirmish in which all the honours had gone to Old Man Curry.
In his touting days he had been given the name of the Sharpshooter and in his prosperity it clung to him.
Just as the horses reached the post, the Sharpshooter slipped in, breathless and fumbling at the catch of his binocular case.
These race-track judges have been after The Sharpshooter a long time, but I notice he's still wearing an owner's badge and coming in at the free gate.
The Sharpshooterand his friends, through their betting commissioners, backed Broadsword from 4 to 1 to even money.
This by way of reminding the Sharpshooter of something which he preferred to forget.
Ford Fisher said afterwards that he saw a Filipino sharpshooter behind a rock fire six times point blank at the gunner as he was sighting the piece.
Prisoners of War The experiences of the heroes of "The Young Sharpshooter" and "The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam," during the course of the war from Antietam to Appomattox.
The Young Sharpshooter at Antietam Deals with Lee's invasion of Maryland in 1862, relating further exciting adventures of Noel, the young sharpshooter.
The Young Sharpshooter The experiences of a boy in the Peninsular Campaign of 1862, under McClellan.
More than one American had been killed or wounded either by this sharpshooter or by one who had adopted the same tactics, and Ned, Bob and Jerry had well earned the thanks of their comrades.
He thought a sharpshooter was there, and he laid his plans to get him.
At first I thought thesharpshooter was popping at us from some height, and I believe he was, a week or so back.
The sharpshooter moves it about with him, thinking we'll believe it's natural.
Henry had uncommonly keen sight, and the eyes of the sharpshooter Seth Cole were but little inferior to his.
His men fell back to the shelter of the tree trunks, and began to fire, every one like a sharpshooter choosing his target.
He was killed by a bullet from the gun of a sharpshooter in Middletown.
While in this position, having occasion to ride up into the battery to speak to Captain Martin, a sharpshooter in Middletown took a shot at us.
Again did the continual flash of spitting fire from the gun afford the sharpshooter in the chased ship abundant opportunities for focussing his aim; although instinct may have taken the place of vision on Perk's part.
The sharpshooter hesitated, then gave an evasive answer: "Powerful long since I done any practicin', and feel like I better try my hand.
Dwinnell was shot through the brain by a sharpshooter stationed in a tall pine.
When Bob introduced "the Sharpshooterof Sunlight Patch," another great burst of good natured applause went up; although Brent and the Colonel could not help exchanging glances.
She was smiling--and with a rarely sweet expression--but not at the Sharpshooter of Sunlight Patch.
Bob had evidently got a sharpshooter up a tree, and caught him loading his gun.
At the first target practice thereafter, Crittenden stood among the first men of the company, and the captain took mental note of him as a sharpshooter to be remembered when they got to Cuba.
When a sharpshooter has picked you out and is plugging at you, they are intelligent and vindictive.
The sharpshooter would reload and fire upon his general from another point.
A Northern sharpshooter suddenly rose out of high weeds, not far in front, and fired directly at them.
While on the road he was mortally wounded by an American sharpshooter in a tree.
While the preparations for renewing the battle were going on, General Sedgwick was struck in the head by a Confederate sharpshooter and instantly killed.
The foot-sore sharpshooter whom Paul had helped on the march cooked a choice and tender piece, and presented it to Paul on a chip, for they had no plates.
What he thought of most of all was his extraordinary escape from the Boche sharpshooter and he wondered who and where his deliverer could be.
But the lone rider forged ahead, zig-zagging his course to escape the bullets of that unseen sharpshooter and because it seemed to free the dragging, catching wire, affording him little spurts of unobstructed speed.
But although the American has but little discipline, as a sharpshooter on the defensive he is quite unrivalled by reason of his superior intelligence and the interest he takes in devoting himself to the matter in hand.
So the bullets flew high, and although the sharpshooter was comforted by the remarks of the other man, no progress was made.
Secure behind these sharpshooter fortifications a distressing fire was concentrated on the half a dozen fortified Japanese posts that lined the outer wall.
The idea of the pair of us taking the Bastile," continued he, like the sharpshooter having reloaded his gun.
