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Sentences starting with shoot

Shoot the Rapids of Carillon! [11]
Shoot 'em down like hogs. [9]
Shoot him? [6]

Sentences ending with shoot

He rowed across the river when the Yankee fleet was going down, and set fire to De Soto so that they could see to shoot. [9]
At the time that this occurred, there were a great many persons on the street in the vicinity, and a number of them called out to Gumbert, when they saw him raise his gun, to "hold on," and "don't shoot! [5]
Answer, or I'll shoot! [5]
The night you ran the batteries he and some others went across to your side in skiffs--in skiffs, seh, I say--and set fire to the houses in De Soto, that we might see to shoot. [9]
Recognize the unions, or I shoot! [9]
Then I told him there was no good going to the Bois Noir, for there would be nothing to shoot. [11]
For Polly Ann had learned to shoot. [9]
Boggs throws up both of his hands and says, "O Lord, don't shoot! [5]
But thet left arm wasn't useless yet, fer he grabbed up the gun, an' with a shakin' aim thet would hev been pitiful to me--in any other man--he began to shoot. [13]

Short sentences using shoot

You could never shoot me. [11]
Don't shoot the pianist! [9]
Kin you shoot a pistol? [9]
I shoot him! [9]

Sentences containing shoot two or more times

There was nothing to shoot at but rocks--he knew quite well that there would be nothing to shoot at but rocks--and he knew that artillery and rifles have no effect upon rocks. [5]
The Emperor proposes to give all commanders of divisions the right to shoot marauders, but I much fear this will oblige one half the army to shoot the other. [2]
If you shoot Perrot or Du Lhut you will have to shoot me; and, if you carry on the matter, your excellency will not have enough gentlemen to play Tartufe. [11]
To shoot is easy; but to shoot is not all, as you shall see if you have a little patience. [11]
Should you shoot a man, according to the proclamation, the Confederates would very certainly shoot our best men in their hands in retaliation; and so, man for man, indefinitely. [7]

More example sentences with the word shoot in them

I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
It's easy for you to shoot off your mouth, you've got a soft snap with Ditmar. [9]
I cannot let you shoot at men who carry the Union flag. [9]
And I believe you can ride and shoot and see with any rider of the sage. [13]
They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
If the pilgrims would take deliberate aim and shoot at a man, it would be all right and proper--because that man would not be in any danger; but these random assaults are what I object to. [5]
What's the matter with you?--you're in no danger--nobody's going to shoot at you. [5]
Here art thou with whom so long the universe travailed in labor; darest thou think meanly of thyself whom the stalwart Fate brought forth to unite his ragged sides, to shoot the gulf, to reconcile the irreconcilable? [6]
Those who fought with us but now were to shoot us at sunset, and remain here till other troops came. [11]
And he's clever with his hands he bought an old abandoned farmhouse in Silliston and made it all over himself until it looks as if one of our great-great-grandfathers had just stepped out of it to shoot an Indian only much prettier. [9]
I nursed his wife, you know--and he started in to tell me how he was coming up to Foxon Falls to shoot Mr. Pindar because he'd closed down the works rather than recognize the union. [9]
I asked Farette what he would shoot, and he said, 'Nothing good to eat. [11]
Since the doctor was too much the macaroni to ride to hounds and to shoot ducks, time began to hang exceeding heavy on his hands. [9]
Old Tom Sanger was threatening to shoot the first man that fired again, and he would have kept his word. [11]
Men say he was right to shoot him, for a woman's name must be safe up here. [11]
The next minute was one of suspense, for we saw the boat shoot beneath the archway. [11]
Just as he was lifting anchor to get away, he saw a boat shoot out from the side of the Cormorant. [11]
A Protestant heretic--he was already damned; a robber--you could put him in jail; a spy--you could shoot him or tar and feather him; a murderer--you could hang him. [11]
They can't beat us, for we can ambush here, and shoot those that come after us. [11]
Percy and Cuderington, two gentlemen, volunteered to do it; but Smith sent instead Master Wiffin and Jeffrey Abbot, to go and stab them or shoot them. [4]
I at once took command of the enterprise, saying firmly at the same time that I would shoot the first man who disobeyed my orders. [11]
This was taking too much time, so it was agreed to shoot them. [5]
He go not to the Post for drink; he sell not next year's furs for this year's rations; he shoot straight. [11]
I was going to shoot myself, too. [9]
Davy taught me to shoot long ago, afore you made up your mind to come back from Kaintuckee. [9]
There are Yankees to shoot in Kansas. [9]
For a long time, after I left him, I thought I didn't, I thought I hated him, and when I found out what had happened to me--that night I came to you--I got my father's pistol and went to the mill to shoot him. [9]
No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. [6]
The habit of thinking you would shoot somebody some time-- somebody you had injured--might become too much for you to-day, and then I should have to kill you, and for your wife's sake I don't want to do that. [11]
When thus engaged, they become so absorbed that a skilful archer may shoot nearly the whole party. [1]
Seating myself at the tiller, I declared solemnly that I would shoot the first man who dared to stop the shallop's way, to make sign, or speak a word. [11]
In that moment the sportsman is supposed to shoot the deer. [4]
To shoot, throw the spear, ride, hunt, speak the truth, and perhaps also to distinguish between the healing and noxious properties of certain plants: that is deemed a sufficient educational provision for a man's life. [10]
Perhaps that was the reason why she had failed to do what she had tried to do, to shoot Ditmar and herself! [9]
Of late years the prying student of history has been delighting himself beyond measure over a wonderful find which he has made--to wit, that Tell did not shoot the apple from his son's head. [5]
You would bore the patriarchs when you talked, and when they talked they would shoot over your head. [5]
Oldring shot through the heart, had fought and forced back death, not for a moment in which to shoot or curse, but to whisper strange words. [13]
Some inkling of the facts began to shoot through his brain, and he saw his chance. [9]
The morning and the evening sun shoot across it, and the front windows look on the great green crown of Mount Peak. [4]
I inwardly resolved that I would starve before I would make a target of myself and shoot rubbish at it with a long-handled shovel. [5]
To prove that Tell did shoot the apple from his son's head would merely prove that he had better nerve than most men and was skillful with a bow as a million others who preceded and followed him, but not one whit more so. [5]
The law also takes this view of it, and will not permit men to shoot each other in plain clothes. [4]
But now I suppose you will shoot us all. [9]
When he was strong enough to leave the sick-room and to ride and shoot once more, he abandoned himself more than ever to the pleasure of drinking, and lost every remnant of self-control. [10]
Some day you'll startle him, and then he'll shoot you as cool as he empties the pockets of Freddy Tarlton over there. [11]
He raised his single- barrelled rifle, as though he would shoot Sinnet; but, at the moment, he remembered that a shot would warn Greevy, and that he might not have time to reload. [11]
Gordineer make grand shots, better than my own; and men have said I can shoot like the devil--ha! [11]
He longed to shoot, but dared not, and while he was making up his mind what to do, the Seigneur had reached the chapel door. [11]
We could not shoot the dogs without endangering the persons they were attached to; so we had to look on, helpless, at what was perhaps the most mortifying spectacle of the civil war. [5]
I threatened to shoot him with my walkingstick, whereat he ran nimbly along the wall in terror The workmen shouted; and this started up a couple of yellow dogs, which came to the edge of the wall and barked violently. [4]
I will not shoot him until after election. [5]
In trying to shoot her cheek (as she sat at the supper-table with her parents and brothers and sisters) in such a manner as to mar its comeliness, one of his bullets wandered a little out of the course, and she dropped dead. [5]
But one must shoot at this creature once, if he wishes to see him throw his heart into his heels, and do the best he knows how. [5]
They began to shoot at me on sight. [13]
Then I shall shoot an arrow, with the cord fastened to it, up into his window, (I never miss), tell him to fasten a weight to it and let it down again to me. [10]
Tom, ye must shoot a turkey, and I'll do my best to give 'em a good supper. [9]
The one chance seemed to be to shoot him, and there must be no bungling, lest his prostrate master suffer at the same time. [11]
It did not seem that a lightning express train could shoot along at a more hair-lifting speed. [5]
Who found the seeds of fire and made them shoot, Fed by his breath, in buds and flowers of flame? [6]
I can only say, that, if they shoot as steadily as they drink beer, there is no other corps of shooters that can stand before them. [4]
Turning in his saddle, the rustler began to shoot, and the bullets beat up little whiffs of dust. [13]
It becomes a question of casuistry with a clergyman whether he may shoot at a mark on Sunday, if none of his congregation are present. [4]
Venters was hard put to it now not to shoot, but thought it better to withhold his fire. [13]
Don't shoot the pianist, he's doing his--ahem! [9]
And she'll say, perhaps, Don't shoot your villain this time, you've shot three or four already in the last six weeks; let his mare stumble and throw him and break his neck. [6]
There were twenty people who were just going to shoot her; when the doe leaped the road fence, and went away across a marsh toward the foothills. [4]
Even now the pains shoot through my body when I think of how man after man plunged waist-deep into the icy water toward the farther branch. [9]
Instead of spears or arrows they shoot with flashing glances, and when they think they have hit their game they turn their back upon it. [10]
To the noncommissioned officer's excuse that the prisoner was ill and could not walk, the officer replied that the order was to shoot those who lagged behind. [2]
If he does not fancy you, he may quarrel with you and shoot you. [9]
Only he did not care so much for those little popgun affairs that a man carries in his pocket, and with which you could n't shoot a fellow,--a robber, say,--without getting the muzzle under his nose. [6]
He would shoot no more, he said. [11]
But there was never anything to shoot at--windows all tight and secure. [5]
For we must needs pull a mile up the stream ere we could reach the passage in which to shoot downward to the Falls. [9]
I thought to myself, "Now this disease with a human heart in it is going to shoot me. [5]
To say that Mr. Langdon had a strange sort of thrill shoot through him at the sight of this harmless little implement would be a statement not at variance with the fact of the case. [6]
They did n't mean to shoot Myrtle Hazard, did they? [6]
You may shoot me from behind a tree or a rock, but swording with you--come, come, a pretty gossip for the Court! [11]
Attend to me--the maniple will occupy the castle and shoot down on the heathen from hence; when they come carry me into the tower. [10]
You'd skin your lion and shoot him afterwards--voila! [11]
They could ride like Cossacks, they could shoot like William Tell, and they had a mind to be the swivel by which the army of Queen Victoria should swing from almost perpetual disaster, in large and small degree, to victory. [11]
They would make life a hell for me if I was poor--shoot me, perhaps, quick!--if--if I didn't shoot first. [11]
He fell at last, and in falling conquered the Pipi Valley; at the same time he was considered a fearless and liberal citizen, who could shoot as straight as he played well. [11]
I'll let you know, Brice, before I shoot him. [9]
I guess you know I'm feelin' for you, an' if I was in your place I'd shoot the man that killed Clint, if it took ten years. [11]
He's obliged to keep the little creatures shut up, for whenever they appear, the poor starving people shoot at them. [10]
One is to join the British forces--to be a lieutenant, a captain, a major, a colonel, or a general, in time; to shoot and cut and hang and quarter, and rule with a heavy rod. [11]
If she feared, it was easy to shoot the bolt and lock the door, to drop the bar across the little window, and be safe and secure. [11]
She couldn't think it might just be a low plot to come here and shoot you in the back. [13]
Austen had found it infinitely easier to shoot Mr. Blodgett than to engage in a duel with the president of the United Railroad. [9]
Now and then, in the midst of a figure, she would shoot me an arch glance, as much as to say that her pinions were strong now. [9]
As a Frenchman I should shoot him like a wolf where'er I saw him; and so I would now were I not Count Frontenac's ambassador and in your excellency's presence. [11]
Had your father his eye, his nerve, his power to shoot with one arm a bull moose at long range, so!--he would not refuse to be called a great hunter, but wear the title gladly. [11]
Hate to shoot him, but war is war. [9]
If you tell him that I have seen you, I will shoot him on sight, dead. [11]
If ever I have seemed weary it is but to keep up a mannerly appearance; verily I could break forth ten times a day and shoot skywards like a rocket for sheer joy in life. [10]
I never saw Harris shoot a man after that but it recalled to mind that first day in Carson. [5]
I would try hard to shoot all round them--make a halo of bullets for the head of every one, draw them in silhouettes of solid lead on the wall. [11]
None found a hand to fight: they could not shoot Nor dared they hurl the spear but fled at his coming Headlong into the river. [10]
Somebody'll shoot that guy, and I wouldn't blame 'em. [9]

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