Two boxes ofshotgun shells were laid out on the engine mount.
That was something he could not forget, for he had been too long with too little not to know the worth of whatever finally came his way, and the shotgun was precious.
He stuffed the pockets full of shotgun shells, caught up his shotgunand kissed Gram again.
Although he forgot the grouse he had just shot, Bud remembered to lean his shotgun against a little pine.
Bud's shotgun was half raised, ready to snap to shooting position at his shoulder, and his pulse was throbbing with excitement.
His shotgun was half raised, but his mind was not on the grouse that, any moment now, might rocket up from the copse of brush he was approaching.
Gramps tried to speak, but he was unable to, and after relinquishing his shotgun to Bud, he sank back heavily to a sitting position.
Noting that Shep had left them for an excursion of his own, Bud balanced the shotgun with both hands and poised his thumb to slip the safety catch.
Wondering how Gram had known this might happen, Bud knelt beside him, passed his right arm around the old man's shoulders and took Gramps' shotgun in his left hand.
Shotgun in hand, he was walking slowly through crisp autumn woods.
He pulled on and laced his rubber-bottomed pacs, and then took up his shotgun affectionately and ran down the stairs.
A shotgun had been on board, but had gone down with the sinking of the junk.
If they have a rifle or a shotgun with them, it's going to make a big difference for us.
It would be hard to find a better specimen of a shotgun prescription; not only does the prescription contain eight ingredients, but one of these ingredients (compound syrup of squill) itself contains three.
These tablets, with their six or more ingredients, are typical “shotgun prescriptions.
Even if every constituent could exert its proper function at the right time, the administration of such a shotgun mixture would be unscientific and uncalled for.
Yet because the misleading name of the preparation gives it the semblance of a therapeutic entity--and because it is advertised in medical journals--a certain number of physicians thoughtlessly prescribe this shotgun mixture.
Soon they came upon some rabbit tracks, and less than a minute later Jack suddenly raised his double-barreled shotgun and blazed away.
They threatened all sorts of things, and they got me so mad that I had to take down my shotgun and warn them away.
Now we've certainly got to go on that hunt," remarked Fred, placing his new shotgun beside the new rifle.
But I'm going to carry my shotgunthis time," announced Fred.
There, in the snow, lay an elderly man, clad in the garb of a hunter or lumberman, with a shotgun and a well-worn game bag beside him.
Then, without waiting to unstrap his skates, he came forward through the snow, his shotgun ready for use.
Jean smiled grimly, for the thief would have only his shotgun loaded with fine shot, for large shot is not used for geese in the north.
Very soon, also, her sportsmen will raise the standard of ethics inshotgun shooting, by barring out the automatic and pump shotguns so much beloved by the market shooters.
The carrying of any rifle or shotgun concealed on the person shall constitute a felony.
In the lower valley I met Harry carrying a shotgun and accompanied by a boy strung about with pheasants and chuckars.
One of our men carried my shotgun and we killed half a dozen pheasants on the way back to camp.
Without pausing to think, Walter had discharged both barrels of hisshotgun at the huddled animals.
Nearer to the fire lay a neatly done-up pack, and beside it a high-pommeled Mexican saddle, while the firelight gleamed on the polished barrels of a fine shotgun and rifle leaning against the pack.
Walter took Chris' light shotgunwhile Charley shouldered the heavy rifle belonging to the captain.
As he spoke there was a whirl of wings, Walter's shotgun spoke twice, and a brace of plump partridges struck the ground with a thud.
Quick," commanded Charley, "open one of your shotgun shells and take out the shot.
Phil, and as he spoke the shotgun in Sid Todd's hands was discharged.
Nevertheless, he swung his shotgun into position for firing, and his chums did likewise.
In this respect his instinct has proved much more of a controlling factor than his ethics,--the shotgun has unfortunately been more constantly in evidence than the Bible.
The Anglo-Saxon advances into the new regions with a Bible in one hand and a shotgun in the other.
The Man and the Bird A Man with a Shotgun said to a Bird: "It is all nonsense, you know, about shooting being a cruel sport.
Not being prepared with an answer to the question, the Man with a Shotgun sagaciously removed the propounder.
Black Riot comes to grips with me first, me and the shotgun Mr. Sharpless has left Ah.
He wanted his binoculars, his shotgun and rifles, and much ammunition, as well as a boat-load of canned supplies and other goods.
We've still got two revolvers and the shotgun left, and lots of ammunition.
With a cry he threw it down, and, running to where theshotgun stood, snatched it up.
Enoch Wetzel stooped suddenly and picked up the shotgun and wordlessly held it out to me.
A double-barrelled twelve-gauge shotgun lay on the ground near his right hand.
The sight of a shotgun in the mountains is always a forerunner of deviltry and treachery.
With a quick, deft movement he reached over and, taking the shotgun by the muzzle, drew it noiselessly out to him.
As Lem shot around a clump of scrub cedars that marked a sharp twist in the trail, the form of a man confronted him with a shotgun leveled at his head.
Lem, as with a sudden rising fury he stooped down and grabbed up McGill's shotgun from the ground, and with a series of terrific blows upon a nearby boulder he reduced the weapon to a broken, twisted wreck in no time.
His eyes burning with the lust of this design, Bud reached down to take up McGill's shotgun to reload it, when he heard Lem's distant voice.
This figure, just as it stole under the great trees, turned to point a sawed-off shotguntheir way.
Though the muzzles of the sawed-off shotgun stared wickedly at him, Dick Prescott turned on his heel, walking off.
Tag Mosher, holding his shotgun under his left arm, stood confronting Laura and Belle.
Two muzzles of a shotgun stared Dick in the face, while the fingers of the fugitive rested on the triggers of the gun.
Mr. Page, the boy is now roaming the woods armed with a shotgun and a revolver.
When I got there, Val Hatfield was sitting by them with a shotgun across his lap.
When Val Hatfield was sitting by them with a double barreled shotgun in his lap, the boys were lying on something on the floor, tied together with a rope.
He said he had been provided with a shotgunand $35.
At the stairway a shotgun suddenly belched forth fire and flame into the faces of the Tollivers.
Max, noticing how the other was rubbing his right shoulder where the butt of his shotgun had rested.
Steve had indeed, as Owen said, "laid the jabberwock low," when he discharged both barrels of his shotgun at once.
I had a repeating rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, and Johnnie a rifle and pistol.
Then Williams came out, bare-headed, and leveled his shotgunat Judge Clarke, who stood very near.
At this age I had not begun the use of a rifle or shotgun on turkeys, although I had killed smaller game, such as squirrels, rabbits, ducks, and quail.
Hallock says: "If the hunter be so fortunate as to get within reach of a turkey, let him take deliberate aim at the head if he has a rifle, but the possessor of a shotgun should cover the whole body.
I've stood for hours peeking out a knot-hole in the wall, with that same old shotgun Donny got hold of, ready to shoot the first Injun that stuck his nose from behind a rock.
I was armed with my shotgun and a brace of old pistols made in Marseilles, France, that Lieut.
The State of Mississippi was saved from utter ruin by what the North called "the shotgun policy.
He had fallen into a doze, and, awakening with a start at my touch he dropped his shotgun from the platform.
Standing in plain view with the heavily-loaded shotgun ready, he awaited the charge, and at close quarters turned loose both barrels into the bear's chest.
And the first thing he did when he was able to travel was to load up a shotgun and hunt San Jose from one end to the other for the man who had set a silver dollar in his skull.
A rifle and shotgun leaned in a corner with a saddle beside them.
The shotgun sagged, exploded again, and the charge ripped the floor.
On the basis of the manufacturer’s statement, Eupeptic Hypophosphites must be regarded as a semisecret, unscientific, shotgun preparation, exploited through unwarranted therapeutic claims.
This formula is an unscientificshotgun combination.
Hydragogin is a shotgun mixture of semisecret composition; it is marketed under a therapeutically suggestive name, and advertised by means of unwarranted therapeutic claims.
Wheeler’s Tissue Phosphates” is an unscientific, shotgun mixture whose most active and powerful drug is the alcohol it contains.
In the light of our knowledge the administration of gland mixtures in the host of conditions enumerated in the advertising circular is irrational and on a par with the use of the shotgun mixtures once in vogue.
He pointed out that the formula is essentially a survival of the discredited shotgungonorrhea mixtures and therefore recommended that its acceptance be not continued.
Part I of the volume contains formulas, good, bad and indifferent, including the equivalents of a large number of shotgun proprietaries.
The Council declared NuTone inadmissible to New and Nonofficial Remedies because it is an irrational shotgun mixture advertised indirectly to the public with unwarranted therapeutic claims and a nondescriptive therapeutically suggestive name.
That there is a healthy tendency to use single drugs for their definite action and to discard combinations (be they shotgun proprietaries or “mixed” vaccines) is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that at the last revision of the U.
The lion leaped, and the person who had been beating it off with the shotgunwas borne down under the attack.
The empty shotgun had saved her from coming into the embrace of the angry lion, for while she fell one way, the animal went another.
The young fellow hesitated about taking the shotgun he had used in the jack-rabbit hunt.
So he left theshotgun behind and went on unarmed toward the place where Frances was even then sitting under the keen eye of Pete.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shotgun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
