Then he put the revolver in the side pocket of his coat, and recklessly firing it without drawing, much less sighting or even showing it, he peppered a white blaze at twenty yards.
He took the gun quite down from his shoulder, nodded to his friend, brought it up again, and turned the bird over very handsomely, at twenty yards, or a little further.
Iron butts are expensive, especially for the large surface required by a beginner; at twenty yards, a beginner could not in my opinion safely shoot at a background less than twelve feet high and some ten in width.
Twenty yards of garden divided his cottage door from the road, and prevented the inmates from breaking their necks as they stepped over its threshold.
Zeb shook his wits together and dashed off towards the spot, twenty yards away, where Ruby stood holding the lantern high, its ray full on her face.
For the creeping barrage there was one gun to twenty yards, firing at maximum rate.
For the creeping barrage there were fourteen 18-pounder batteries, giving, as at Messines, about one gun to twenty yards.
On another morning at dawn the tracks of a big male showed that he, too, must have passed at some hour of the night within five-and-twenty yards of the snow-screen.
Twenty yards further he saw another, and then the glow of lights came through the trees.
At last he saw the shelving bank, twenty yards away, then ten, then five.
Ear guided eye, and he became sure that the sound came from a point fifteen or twenty yards in front of them, but approaching.
Two miles further we encamped at Moreau creek, a stream oftwenty yards width, on the southern side.
Its sources are in the first range of the Black mountains, and though it has now only water of twenty yards width, yet when full it occupies ninety.
Beyond Cedar island, are some others of a smaller extent, and at seven miles distance a creek fifteen or twenty yards wide, entering from the north, and known by the name of Cedar creek.
He had not gone far before, to his great delight, there came a welcome chattering in answer to his low whistle, and the busy little fellow flew up to show himself and promptly led the way, going ahead ten to twenty yards at a flight.
Twenty yards out, where increasing depth steadied him, he turned for a moment and seeing himself alone in the water called to me with eager confidence, "Come on, Baas.
They are miserable marksmen, and were even at small distances unable to strike a large object, as for instance a hat at twenty yards, although offered a handsome reward; nor can they shoot at all at long distances.
With one of these pistols I made the highest possible score at thirty yards; with another I made ten out of twelve bulls at twenty yards.
Tell him you want them for taking a full sight in daylight at twenty yards.
Twenty yards away a girl sat a grey stallion, the poise of her head suggesting that she had heard the beat of his horse's hoofs.
Twenty yards beyond, Swinton touched the major's shoulders and whispered: "I heard something behind; I feel that we are being followed.
Halting just outside the village, Harry formed his men with a front across the whole road, and directed the lines to advance, twenty yards apart.
They had already edged down within twenty yards of this ship, and slowly as they were moving through the water, in another three or four minutes the vessels grated together.
They found that it was particularly bad at two points, while between these the ground was firm for a distance of twenty yards on each side of the track.
Kendall added two more and on a wing shift Still made the distance and the ball was down on the Blue's twenty yards.
A penalty, however, set her back ten yards, and Norton punted again to Claflin's twenty yards.
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