I could not have believed it possible that two men could have talked in public as he and Judge Whipple did yesterday and not be shot down.
The South will not submit to that until every man who can bear arms is shot down.
Remember now that you are prisoners, and will be shot down if one of you attempts to escape.
They always tell us that cavalry have no chance nowadays of breaking into a square, for they would all be shot down by the breech-loaders before they could reach it, and yet these niggers, with nothing but spears, manage to do it.
He would send them to be shot down by the Kaffirs, as they had been shot downat Abu Klea and outside the town, and someone else would possess their wives and their camels and their fields.
He said women and children had been shot down, and I said, "It was a sad thing, but it is impossible for me to help you.
The paladin of the Confederacy was gone, shot down in the dark by his own men.
It was he, Stonewall Jackson, shot down in the darkness and by mistake by our own men!
Officers and horses fell, shot down by their own men.
Others were under the impression that the order to clear out was merely a ruse on the part of the Tank and that directly they were at a certain distance from the latter they would be shot down by her machine-guns.
Any attempt at your low-down games and you'll be shot down.
The Dervishes rushed from the wood and charged up to within sixty yards of the guns, only, however, to be shot down in hundreds.
No sooner would a porthole be thrown open than the gunners would be shot down as they stood.
Seizing a gun, he gave the Spaniard to understand that he had old scores to settle with him, and that he had better get his own pistol and defend himself, for he was soon to be shot down like a dog.
The Indians realized that they would all be shot down if they remained in their present position, for the men behind the brow of the hill now had their range.
I don't like bolting, but it seems too bad to be shot down by the men we have been getting into safety.
I'll give the order for you to beshot down if you don't give up your piece," cried Lennox angrily.
Along what had been once streets run packs of dogs gone wild, restlessly smelling at dirt and corpses, growing bolder day by day until finally they have to be shot down.
On the following day he shot down, east of Yalova, a British Farman aeroplane.
According to French reports, they stood up to be shot down--the machine-gun men at their guns, the grenadiers on their grenade chests.
To the half score of men who had thrown down their arms, Hal cried: "Back to your own lines quickly or you shall be shot down!
Another move like that and you'll all be shot down.
But he was unable at this moment to draw with any degree of hope, for the German officer was directly behind him and Chester knew he would be shot down before he could turn and fire.
It was impossible to pass through that door without being shot down.
The house probably is surrounded and if we start out the door we shall most likely be shot down.
The Rangers were between the upper and the nether millstone, as the Home Guards had been early in the morning; and it was only a question of time when they would all be shot down.
Yes, if you choose to call it by that name; but Captain Stinger and myself disagreed, and I was not willing to stand there and be shot down by about three times our own number," replied Garbold.
He had seen his father and brother shot down, and fearing if he moved the heartless wretches would shoot him again, he remained quiet among the dead until he heard the voice of his mother gently calling his name in the darkness.
These propositions were accepted by the Daviess County committee, and duly executed, though much of the stock belonging to the saints had been driven away, or shot down to supply the mob forces with beef.
The only property that was appraised, however, was the real estate; the personal property the saints had lost, and the stock that had been shot downby the mob and upon which they had fed, was not taken into account at all.
Reckon we air jest as liable ter be shot down as Confed'rates, ain't we?
Do you know that you are liable to be shot down or hung as outlaws?
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