She had seen him many times in that church devoutly attending mass and she was indignant at the evil tongues which, under the cover of a funeral oration, recalled the shootings and bank failures in his country.
The estate was not a large one certainly, but it would have been big enough to live well upon, had the shootings let as well as they did long ago.
The arrival of the runner was always one of the chief events of the day, for the Laird "let" his shootings every season, and had friends in every part of the kingdom.
Street shootings of a more informal nature were too numerous to count.
It is said, however, to be still maintained in the parish of Advie, and when the late Mr. Bass had the Tulchan shootings and fishings his head keeper used to breed and sell Spey cocks.
In connection with these shootings of Jews in Borrisov the name of a counter-intelligence officer, whom I knew quite well and who was an Austrian like me, was mentioned.
Mass shootings took place to the accompaniment of the music of an orchestra recruited from the persons interned.
How were shootings to take place, especially in relation to your protests?
The Thurso river rises in the heights of the Glutt shootings on the Sutherland march amongst a bewildering labyrinth of flows and black morasses, hideous, and gaunt.
He made his living by taking shootings and fishings from Caithness proprietors.
He knew how to deal with gentlemen, and men felt safe in his hands, and voids in his shootings and fishings were rare.
Dunbar had a happy knack in letting shootings and fishings.
You must be sure to tell Miss Farmond--and Lady Cromarty too if she hears of this--that I came solely to enquire about the shootings and not to poke my nose into their library!
There are only three separate grouse shootings in the parish, viz.
Flowerdale is usually let with shootings for the shooting season, from 12th August till the end of October.
Those which are within deer forests or grouse shootings are nearly all strictly preserved, but permission to fish several good ones may be obtained by visitors staying at the different hotels.
Pool House, at Poolewe, which has been enlarged, and he rents shootings along with it.
Such streams of consciousness andshootings forth of spirit seem to us just as much abstractions and just as much conceptual substitutions for reality as do the old-fashioned metaphysical entities of "being" and "becoming.
From our point of view it seems quite uncalled for to summon up vague and remote entities, like streams of consciousness and shootings forth of spirit, in order to interpret this immediate spectacle.
And that was why monster-hunters caused so few casualties in barroom shootings around Port Sandor, outside of bystanders and back-bar mirrors.
They were filled with enthusiasm, and with a good deal also of curiosity in regard to the shootings of which they had heard so much, and were following in our track next day, and so we parted sans adieux.
I do not think there is in any other part of the world, or that there ever has been in any civilised country, such shootings as have filled the land to which I allude with bloodshed.
Directly people found out they could get down to Scotland at comparatively little cost and trouble, the prices of shootings went up--and they will continue to rise.
But undoubtedly all prize shootings were not so aristocratic.
The society of fencers outlived the prize-shootings and the great war.
It is true that their descriptions of friendly and distinguished prize shootings are almost always in very bad rhyme; but they are very valuable to us, because they introduce us to the smallest details of those festivals.
The greatest and most splendid prize-shootings were for two centuries celebrated in this part of Germany.
It is remarkable that in the countries of Lower Saxony, on the North Sea and Baltic, where the old Hanse towns had founded such noble city unions, the prize-shootings were less frequent and distinguished.
These guilds were favoured by the city magistrates, who helped to arrange the great prize shootings of their city.
The number of marksmen at the earlier cross-bow shootings was not large.
The princes and cities hired whole bands of fighters, who attended at the prize-shootings and other great festivals.
Mr. Maslin agrees with Ben Taylor that the hangings and shootings of the period following the discovery of gold have been grossly exaggerated.
A list of persons who were killed in the course of the burning and the shootings has been drawn up by M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shootings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
