The man suddenlyshot up like a fountain, growing huge; he towered over them, until he seemed miles high and the giant structures Dave could see were only the turned-up toes of the man's shoes.
The old man's white goatee bobbed as he mouthed something silently and made passes over the flame, which shot up prismatically.
The vanguard shot across Ludgate Circus, and were making for the Meat Market.
Hardly had Albinik pronounced these words, when the Roman general shot some orders at several of his officers.
Just then one of those light boats used by the Irish seamen shot out from the bay of Morbihan by the safe channel.
We were pleased to see that almost everyshot took effect.
He, finding that he would be murdered, and, mortally wounded already, sprang at the man nearest him, seized his gun andshot him from his horse.
On going up Henderson creek they espied Mr. William Martin while in the act of mowing, at a point near Little York, whom they shot and killed, and for fear of detection, immediately took to the brush.
The fight continued vigorously until the last Indian was killed, several of them having been shot while trying to escape by swimming.
The others started and ran rapidly towards the fort, but two of them were shot down dead.
In the meantime the brave was coming towards him, knife in hand and desperation in his eye, and when only a few feet from him the colonel shot him down with his revolver.
The retreating army passed through their camping ground near Sycamore creek, where they should have halted, and under cover of the timber, could have shot down their pursuers while yet in open prairie.
The Americans shot better than the British, but their soldiers were not so well clothed, nor so well provided for.
On the evening of the 9th the army encamped at White Water, and the next morning Indians were seen on the other side of this stream which was not fordable, one of whom shot and wounded a regular.
The traders arrive and give us credit for guns, flints, powder, shot and lead, and such articles as we want to clothe our families with and enable us to hunt.
Dodge's command pushed forward and opened a heavy fire, from which many Indians were shotdown while retreating toward the Mississippi, where their main body was stationed.
But Herakles stood fearlessly near a grove from whence he might approach the lion, and suddenly shot at him with his bow and arrow, hitting him squarely in the breast.
Herakles shot some burning arrows at the Hydra and forced it to come out.
His size was prodigious, his eyes shot forth flames of fire, and his tongue licked his bloody chops.
But a sudden insanity came upon him during which he mistook his wife and children for wild beasts and shot them down with his bow and arrows.
They ran races, they boxed, they shot arrows and did all sorts of things to show how strong they were.
Herakles shot at them with his arrows and killed great numbers, and they stoned him in return with large stones.
He put two to flight, prevented others from entering the cave, and shot the rest down with his arrows.
They had a dreadful battle, in which Herakles drew his bow and shot at the giant with one of his deadly arrows and Geryon died.
Oh, here we are at the station," she cried, as the train shot round a curve, and Shannondale was reached.
On the other hand, have you ever noted that a man taken unawares, shot from the side, or rear, falls forward?
The doctor did not lift his eyes from the path before them, and again the detective shot a side glance from the corner of his eye, and the shadow of a smile crossed his face.
The shot at the back could not have been self-inflicted.
Well, did you ever see or hear of a suicide who had fallen directly forward and face downward, supposing him to have shot himself?
He shot a quick glance toward Brierly, and met the doctor's eye for one swift, momentary glance.
The hurt is too fresh, you can only feel now, but the man shot by accident, be it by his own hand or that of another, is not shot twice.
She shot your brother; there is not a doubt of it.
He could not have shot himself, and no one, in that open place, could have killed him by accident.
I fired twice running, the third time turning long enough to send anothershot at him as he entered the carriage door.
I am something of a shot myself and I noticed that.
A look of sudden alertness shot from the eyes of the detective, and he arrested the doctor's evident impatience by a quick shake of the head unperceived by the woman, who was addressing her narrative to the doctor, as was natural.
A burgher guard, numbering about three hundred, made such resistance as they could, and the one-armed warrior fired a shot or two from a rusty old demi-cannon.
The international hatred, already germinating between England and Holland, shot forth in these flaming regions like a tropical plant.
A well-directed shot had set fire to the magazine.
A fortunate carbine-shot from one of the Dutch captain's comrades went through the Spaniard's head.
All of this was in the glance which Mr. Cowan shot over to his colleagues.
The life and death of Ferdinand's mother, shot by a wounded hussar in her moment of victory, make perhaps the most original and interesting part of this hero's adventures.
He slew Achilles by an arrow-shot in the Scaean gate, and prophecy was fulfilled.
Being higher built, Blackwings shot right over the top of the yard engine, turned end for end, and lay with her pilot under the mail car, which was telescoped into the express car.
And there was an artillery major, Said he, I am free to wager I fired the best shot in the war, And fame of it was heard afar.
And then they start for sport and fun, To try their luck with the shot gun, And quick they raised from their cover, Then brought low eight brace of plover.
A thrilling tale our guest[A] did tell, That close to him fell bursting shell, This shot it was not fired in vain, For several savages were slain.
But when they flew o'er the river Thames They swooped down to take a dive, But sport with shot gun at them aims And one at least did not survive.
He, accordingly, at times amused himself by feigning to be shot dead, suddenly dropping down beside one of his culverins.
Master John, together with several determined men, attacked with hatchets the iron studded door, while a shower of arrows, shot through a narrow slit in an adjoining building, rained upon the cannonier and his companions.
The eyes of the indignant father shot daggers at the soldier.
But regularly on the morrow they saw again Master John, in happier trim than ever,[59] and ever more accurate and telling with the shot from Riflard and Montargis.
We shall together examine the entrenchments of the enemy, you shall be my chief of artillery, and we shall drive the English away with shot of cannon--and the help of God!
There was a mythical wild turkey in the woods around, and the hope of a shot at him carried me many a mile, though he proved only a myth; but of rattlesnakes and copperheads there was no lack.
I have often paddled within easy shot of a deer on other waters, but only by remaining motionless when he was looking round, for the movement of a hand would send him flying in panic; but this poor deer might have been reared in Eden.
I had placed a bullet in each barrel, and immediately took a shot at the buck.
They have been shot weighing about twenty or thirty pounds.
I received a note one morning before breakfast from a true sportsman, informing me that he knew of a large herd of elephants in the Berea, and, if I would join him, he hoped that we might get a shot at them.
I guessed where the shoulders would be, and sent my bullet at them into the long grass; the animal fell over backwards, and I rushed to the spot to discover an old goat, shot directly through the heart.
I had had my gun the other day, I would have shot so and so.
During the first three months that I tried my hand at buck shooting, I shot only five.
For example, I once shot a coran across the Umganie, and as it fell amongst some long grass and bushes, I could not find it, and for some time pushed the grass about with my ramrod.
Suddenly a charge ofshot rattled through the branches, and down the crows both dropped, fluttering, to the ground.
I shot six of these during my prowlings around the bush and swamps of Natal; the largest was shot when I was in company with an English gentleman who rarely went out shooting and was a prey to despair almost before he had commenced.
I made a very good double shot on one occasion, by which I killed a buck and doe of the black bush-buck.
When across the Umganie, I shot the first as he was in the open ground, and knocked him over with a bullet as he was running; the other two I killed in the bush.
I led my horse and walked beside Inkau, who rarely saw a clump of bushes or a distant peak, but what he had to tell me that he shot something there so many moons ago, indicating by his fingers the number.
Convinced by this, that the animal his comrade had shot at was ferocious and formidable, he felt much alarm for his fate, and sought after him with great anxiety.
Sometimes a hawk would sweep on a particular part of the column from a great height, when almost as quick as lightning that part shot downwards out of the common track, but soon rising again, continued advancing at the same height as before.
They were flying about in considerable numbers, but were so small, and their flight was so quick, that they escaped the shot fired at them.
Attacked on all sides by the enraged curs, the infuriated animal fought with desperate valour; but the squatter advancing in front of the party, and almost in the midst of the dogs, shot him immediately behind and beneath the left shoulder.
A shot from one of the party was heard, on which the puma was seen to leap to the ground and bound off with such velocity as to show that he was very unwilling to stand our fire longer.
His hands shot out and caught the other man in a steelly grasp that choked an involuntary cry from him.
He shotthe question out in short, chopped-off words.
After the first shot from the guns of his pursuers, he had taken refuge behind a pile of bricks and concrete slabs, where he was ready to make a determined resistance.
Bob caught him, fearing a ruse, and shot home one more hard right.
The answer to that was another shotinto the desks where he had been hiding and Bob knew that the man felt sure he was still hiding there.
The shot should attract the attention of the guards on duty in the building and within a minute they should be at the door, battering their way in.
Tully shot a bitter glance at Bob for he realized that Bob was the only source of information on his activities while he was in the room.
He should have been greatly alarmed, but instead he felt a strange exultation for the firing of that shot had told him what he wanted to know--he was at the end of the trail.
The beam from a flashlight shot through the night and focused on the taxi driver.
Had his missile disabled the other man; had the shot been fired involuntarily?
On the echo of those words there came a shotand a cry.
There was no sound in the room; there had been no sound since the echoes of the shot had died away.
If it was bungling, it wasn't the first bit of it today," he shot back at the older federal agent.
The man who had fired the shotwas almost beside him.
Wiebecke was wounded and left on the field--the rebels found and shot him and stripped him entirely naked.
K, will die of his wound--a canister shot in the side--the ball remaining.
As far as rifle-shot could reach, upon each flank they opened upon the devoted little band.
Vanderveer had the fingers of his left handshot off.
Germany, that on that date her son was shot in the head, just before the Germans took the trenches, as he was bandaging a wounded soldier, and was killed instantly.
Cedric Horsfall was shot while making a reconnaissance in front of the line, and his death was a sad blow to all the battalion.
He shot himself just to find out what comes after death.
A great oppression held me down; a spear of darkness shot through me.
A few months ago she lost a front tooth, too--broke it on some bird shot left in the breast of a ptarmigan she was eating.
With the passions, the cruelties, and spiritual vision of the middle ages to build upon Swords sweeps upward to a scene of sudden, flashing conflict shot with the mystic and triumphant ecstasy which emanates from this glorious woman.
Early the next morning Horace by a long shot killed a deer at the riverside.
Half a mile from the shanty Peter shot a swamp hare that was nibbling a spruce trunk, and a little way farther he secured another.
Once they encountered a plunging trail across the river where several timber wolves must have crossed the night before, and late in the afternoon Maurice shot a couple of spruce grouse in a thicket.
As the canoe shot down the rapid, he trailed out like a streamer behind it.
The line whirled again, and shot out, and again the gut fell across Fred's shoulders with the flies on the other side.
The boys loaded the fox cage into the Peterboro, got in themselves, and shot down the river again in a fresh start for home.
He was carrying the shotgun and held it ready; but the buck, shot behind the shoulder, was virtually dead, although he was kicking feebly.
They sallied out toward eleven o'clock, and shot three rabbits, which Peter attached to a deerskin thong.
From the pouch he took a small paper package, unfolded it, and revealed nine small lumps, which ranged in size from a small shot to a large pea.
He fired one shot wildly, then another, but there was no sign of the animal's being stopped, and the next instant it was out of sight.
They were entirely out of fresh meat, and had nothing whatever to give the foxes, but fortunately Mac shot three spruce grouse that evening.
For a quarter of a mile they shot down the river; then they had to land and make a fifty-yard carry.
Well, suppose I shot a couple of rabbits to-morrow night and went through the woods dragging them after me, so as to make a blood trail.
Something large and grayish had shot up into view behind a thicket, and had departed with the speed of an arrow.
The canoe shot forward, and at doubled speed swept by the tent.
The shot must have been fired fully a mile away; but they put on their snowshoes at once, and hastened in the direction of the cabin.
She shot to the surface, and, without a word, swam at full speed towards the higher side of the lake.
The news that the court-martial had agreed on a sentence, and that Palm was to beshot by virtue of it this afternoon at two o'clock in the large ditch of the fortress, had spread like wildfire through the whole city of Braunau.
Pray for your poor soul, Prince von Lichtenstein, for I am a dead shot at one hundred yards, and our distance will only be twenty paces.
