The cocoa-tree, the stem of which is slenderer than elsewhere, and the banana-tree hereshoot up with wonderful rapidity and vigour.
The troopers moved back as enjoined, but Careless did not like their looks, and called out to them: "Further back, or we will shoot you!
Ay, shoot him through the head if he stirs," rejoined Careless.
I had rather you would shoot me than let me live to see the consequences of this fatal day.
We have got thy pistols," added John, "and we will shoot thee through the head shouldst thou attempt to fly, or give the alarm.
Shoot me if you will," cried Joan to the Republican leader, "I have nothing to declare.
Finding he could not intimidate the resolute forester, Colonel James left him in charge of a couple of troopers, with orders to shoot him if he attempted to escape, and commanded Joan to conduct him over the house.
I shall not fight with your brothers, the French; I shall not shoot them.
The British saw, and were afraid to fire lest they should shoot their countryman.
Finally, when a good opportunity offered itself, thirty or forty Indians quietly surrounded the palefaces, and at a given signal every one of them yelled at the top of his voice and began to shoot arrows at the hated visitors.
Whenever a white man's vessel came in sight, the Indians prepared to shoot any one that came ashore.
At the four corners of the palisade were bastions, or fortified projections, from which the inmates could see the whole length of the wall and shootany one attempting to climb it, set fire to it, or do it any harm.
When I take down my gun to shoot them I shall probably remember that the Psalmist said, "I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop," and maybe the recollection will cause me to stay my hand.
He had for twenty years interested the young sportsmen of his neighborhood to shoot one for him, but without success.
Pablo," said little Edith, "go and sit down; you must not shoot people.
He passed his time very agreeably, sometimes going out to shoot deer with Oswald, and often supplying venison to his brother and sisters.
Yes, I will bring you the guns, Humphrey, and you shall shoot them," replied Edith.
If it was a calf we might; but it is too heavy; and if we were to get it out alive, we must kill it afterwards, so we had better shoot it at once.
But if you shoot him, you will be a bad boy, Pablo," replied Edith, who appeared to have assumed an authority over him.
He perceived that any attempt to take Edward would be at the risk of his own life; and he knew that his orders were to apprehend all poachers, but not to shoot people.
He shoot master then," said Pablo; "he very bad man.
They fight without the protection of a shield, generally in pairs, who shoot together.
The shoot must then be carefully pegged down with a hairpin or a zinc layer pin in such a way that the cut is left open and the tongue is firmly fixed in the soil.
With a sharp knife you should slice off the upper part of the stalk at a bud that faces outwards, because then the new shoot will grow outwards, and make a better-shaped tree.
A Rose should be cut so as to leave the flowering shoot you will find just below it; otherwise you cannot expect a succession of blooms.
If they are allowed to stand, they bolt—that is to say, they shoot up tall and begin to grow flowers.
The leaves of each shoot must be stripped off at the end proceeding from the main stalk, leaving about three or four leafy joints above.
While these old gentlemen went off toshoot grouse, "Sunny Jim" went forth to every sort of man-hunting expedition.
At the end of their training, one and all were as tough as tinkers, and fit to shoot the tail of a sparrow at 500 yards.
Still, I don't see how you can shootat the Germans.
Musketry was never good in the British Army till the War Office made a soldier shoot for his pay.
What you have got to do, men, is Shoot--and Shoot well.
He took his gun along with him to shoot a bear if he saw one in his corn, or an Indian if one made his appearance.
You must shoot him just behind the shoulder," whispered Tom; "that's the only spot where you can kill a bear.
The fact that it was a weapon with which to shoot peas, and had a spring that did away with the necessity for powder, did not make it any less dangerous in Jack's eyes, and he felt very warlike with it in his hands.
For a long time Jack had been anxious to go out for a day, and shoot about as many animals as would be necessary to start a large menagerie; but until this gun was given him he could not satisfy his desires.
If you die, do not blame me, for I was obliged to shoot you as a matter of self-protection.
It was not to be wondered at that the sportsman vowed never to shoot another monkey.
We'll shoot 'em down as long as we have ammunition - - and it's about gone now.
Being aware of this, I have often, when in the wildest of his paroxysms, by threatening to shoot him, produced perfect calmness and submission.
They may shoot us—may chain our hands and feet, but the red man’s heart will be free.
General Slocum gave orders to the citizens along his route to shoot down his stragglers without mercy.
The flames shoot up on every hand, and the firemen rush to the centres of conflagration.
It is what happens to an animal when men shoot it with their arrows,' Old Man replied.
He strung his bow, ran out on the point, and began to shoot the wicked birds.
You must not shootthat one," Red Crane said, "for it would drop fluttering down among the rest and scare them all away.
At first he shot them at little sagebrush bushes, or a piece of robe thrown onto a bush; but after a couple of moons he was taught to shoot at a ball of grass thrown up in the air.
They saw White Wolf hurriedly reloading his rifle, and were fearing that, after all, the wounded animal would get up and run before he could shootit again.
He showed them first how to make bows and arrows, stone knives and arrow-points, and then taught them how to shoot and kill and cut up the animals.
All I can do is to teach our little Sinopah; teach him to shoot and hunt; teach him to be good and kind and brave.
He was about to shoot at a fifth bird when Red Crane seized his arm: "That is enough," he said.
Glancing at Alan's bent head, Professor Larrabee abruptly banged shut the lid of his empty suitcase and shoved it into the conveyor port in the wall toshoot it down to Luggage.
Since it is so," said Gomez Pirez to his crossbowmen, "shoot at them with your bows that they may at least understand that we are people who can do them hurt, whenever they will not agree to a friendly understanding.
And because the water was rising, one of the boats of the Guineas crossed to the other side and put on shore those it was carrying, and thence they began to shoot arrows at our men in the boats.
It is reported that he carries two loaded pistols about with him, and threatens to shoot first Clémence and then himself.
At first it was seen to shoot rapidly across the strong current of the river; but by-and-by the rower seemed to flag, and his strokes grew uncertain and unsteady.
Féron obeyed without hesitation, even with alacrity; for it seemed to him much better to brand a man on the hand than to shoot him through the heart.
Well, perhaps I did not shoot very straight either; still we are in an enemy’s country.
It nettled me to have to shoot with a strange weapon, and I thought too lightly of the mark.
Brains, my lad, will tell in coming days, for it takes a head to shoot well, though any flesher may swing a sword.
And they could shoot too, with their rusty matchlocks or clumsy snaphances.
I could not see anything to shoot at--only lithe shades and mottled shadows, for the torch lay on the wet ground, and was sputtering to its end.
They ride and shoot and bicycle and golf and dance, and the elder writes little stories for the magazines.
I shoot the dregs of my glass into his distended jaws.
Before I could fire once, a soldier called to me not to shoot unless I wished to be carted off to the guardhouse for violating military orders, which prohibit firing within the cantonment.
It lacked a full half hour to the testing time, and I determined to wait fifteen minutes and then if help did not arrive, climb the pole, shoot the insulators from the arms, and break each and every wire.
You never had to shoot me," he stammered, "to make me tell you that.
I said if he did that there wouldn't be any electric lights, and you would bring a warship and shoot Hayti off the map.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
