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Sentences starting with shot

Shot after shot was fired at him. [11]
Shot after shot was fired at him, lances were thrown, and once an Arab barred his way suddenly. [11]
Shot after shot the twelve-pounders of the Frenchman drove like dun hail at the white timbers of the yacht, and her masts and spars were flying. [11]
Shot in the leg and wounded in the shoulder. [10]
Shot and shell had made wicked havoc. [11]
Shot his own brother-- amounts to same thing, doesn't it? [11]

Sentences ending with shot

If there's anybody with you, let him keep back--if he shows himself he'll be shot. [5]
He had a wholesome respect, not to say fear, of her; for when all else had failed, it was she who had arranged his escape from Spain, and who almost saved Carvillho Gonzales from being shot. [11]
One mother said, when her son was offered the command of the first colored regiment, "If he accepts it I shall be as proud as if I had heard that he was shot. [7]
The white officers were shot. [7]
But here it was suddenly sent upon her by the shock of a rifle shot. [11]
His Secretary of War and other officials complained that they never could get deserters shot. [7]
The English never uttered a challenge nor fired a shot. [5]
Each held on to the raft by one lean, wiry arm, carrying on the other the round bucklers on which the arrows that came whistling from the boat, fell and stuck as soon as they were within shot. [10]
The question was this: "Were the doctors clear that the deceased had no disease which might soon have carried him off, if he had not been shot? [5]
At a point they separated, to come down upon the camp at different angles, in the hope of still getting a shot. [11]

Short sentences using shot

The Southerner shot up fifty. [9]
I'll have you shot! [2]
There goes a shot! [11]
Merely a finger shot off. [5]
Another shot rang out. [11]
It was a long shot. [11]
Not by a long shot! [9]
I'd a shot him. [5]
You shot him, didn't you? [9]
He was shot dead. [5]

Sentences containing shot two or more times

For an instant the little French-Canadian policeman whom the shot had missed gazed stupidly down at her.... As Janet ran along the dark pavements the sound of the shot and of the woman's shriek continued to ring in her ears. [9]
Then he fired swiftly, shot after shot, and three men fell. [11]
Yet if such shame could be, I still would have had no fear, for I should have shot you as wolves are shot that come too near the fold. [11]
It had been no passionate glinting spirit of a fearless foe, willing shot for shot, life for life, but lacking physical power. [13]
Using shot for money was a good thing for the government; the metal cost nothing, and the money couldn't be counterfeited, for I was the only person in the kingdom who knew how to manage a shot tower. [5]
I said it, and I shot the horse, and I'd have shot him--what's that? [11]

More example sentences with the word shot in them

A shot from your pistol brought him down as he rushed forward to enter the ruins. [11]
It is said, your Excellency, that this Moray did not fire the shot that wounded you, but one who has less reason to love you. [11]
I thought mebbe you'd heard that shot, en' I was worried some. [13]
Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
And I want you to send a copy to the man that shot my dog. [5]
Lassiter will tell you how I shot her for a rustler, saved her life--all the story. [13]
These became from year to year more common; about five years ago he shot one, and afterwards another, and now they are frequently killed. [1]
But the shot wouldn't hurt anybody, it would only drop into your hand. [5]
So the summer wore away, while we lived from hand to mouth on such scanty fare as the two of them shot and what we could venture to gather in the unkempt fields near the gates. [9]
Some of us will be shot before we finish this pilgrimage. [5]
Tinoir shot no wild animals for profit--only for food and for skins and furs to wear. [11]
The tall backwoodsman who had shot him waded across the stream, and in the twinkling of an eye seized the scalp-lock and ran it round with his knife, holding up the bleeding trophy with a shout. [9]
It was he who had fired the opportune shot that rid me of one foe. [11]
Principal Silas Peckham, who had been called from his slumbers by a message that Master Langdon was shot through the head by a highway-robber, but had learned a true version of the story by this time. [6]
There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom. [5]
Once more he whirled the lasso round and round over his head, and then shot it forth, as the rattlesnake shoots his head from the loops against which it rests. [6]
Once in a while I heard Weldon's answering shot, but I remembered my promise to Tom not to waste powder unless I were sure. [9]
Then the canister, which produced ghastly murder, chain-shot to bring down masts and spars, langrel to fire at masts and rigging, and the dismantling shot to tear off sails, were all made ready. [11]
At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
I told him what I thought of him, and he shot at me through his pocket. [9]
In the gun were two sizes--wee mustard-seed shot, and another sort that were several times larger. [5]
Both of us were successful; I crippled a nurse, and he shot off all my back hair. [5]
When the arms were bound, I felt the straps on my own; when the cap come down, I gasp for breath; when the bolt is shot, I feel the wrench and the choke, and shudder go through myself--feel the world jerk out in the dark. [11]
His warm face went pale, then shot to purple, and finally settled into a grey ruddiness. [11]
Before we left, we shot a poor howling dog that mourned for his masters, and sank him also in the dark pool. [11]
And once, as we drifted into an inlet at sunset, we caught sight of the shaggy head of a bear above the brown water, and leaping down into the cabin I primed the rifle that stood there and shot him. [9]
Above, an uncertain, watery moon flew in and out among the shifting clouds; and now and then a shot came through the mist and the half dusk, telling of some poor fugitive fighting, overtaken, or killed. [11]
We shot a water-fowl now and then that got up too early in the morning or didn't go to bed early enough in the evening. [5]
Ba su, it was the last shot he would ever fire against aught English, here or elsewhere. [11]
The Bridgwater Merchant was high in the water, and her shot at first did little damage to the Maid of Provence, which, having the advantage of the wind, came nearer and nearer. [11]
When the sixty-first was heard, there was great rejoicing, for then they knew that the duchess had borne a son; when, however, another shot followed the one hundred and first, a clever advocate suggested that perhaps there were two princesses. [10]
For our food was gone, and no game was to be shot over this watery waste. [9]
Suddenly a shot was fired, then a hoarse shout came over the desert, then there was silence again. [11]
Almost instantly there was another shot, and a blue wisp of smoke rose from the red-bud bushes, where Tom was. [9]
He shot Cynthia Ware, and what she suffered in secret Coniston never guessed. [9]
By George, you want the head shot off you awful bad! [5]
Suddenly, while we waited for murder, a tall figure shot out of the door past the widow, the pistol flew out of Tipton's hand, and Tipton swung about with something like a bellow, to face Mr. Nicholas Temple. [9]
But he went visiting with Eos, another lady of previous acquaintance, down at a place called Ortygia, and Artemis shot him dead with a shaft Apollo had given her; but she didn't marry Apollo neither. [11]
Beside this deserted village, even Calamity Pond, shallow, sedgy, with its ragged shores of stunted firs, and its melancholy shaft that marks the spot where the proprietor of the iron-works accidentally shot himself, is cheerful. [4]
Jack was a very good shot and a fair rider, and in the climate of England he might have taken first-rate rank in athletics. [4]
A shot from Venters, which missed the man but sent the dust flying over him made him run back to his horse. [13]
The priest told us that St. Sebastian lived under ground for some time while he was being hunted; he went out one day, and the soldiery discovered and shot him to death with arrows. [5]
Sometimes we ran upon them in the water, where they looked like the rough-bark pine logs from the North, and Nick would have a shot at them. [9]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]
We were fired upon by match-lockmen, and one officer was shot dead. [5]
In an assault upon a stronghold in Bavaria when he was only twenty-three years old, his right hand was shot away, but he was so interested in the fight that he did not observe it for a while. [5]
A light shot up into Hylda's eyes. [11]
A light shot up in her face. [11]
Ingolby's hand shot up above them with a gesture of command. [11]
He had shot two of the robbers. [9]
Pourcette had shot two mountain lions, but they had seen no pumas. [11]
The enemy lost two men, both shot dead. [5]
But he half turned at the door, and shot back a look that frightened Virginia. [9]
His aim was true; the mustang gave one bound and fell lifeless, shot through the head. [6]
Evidently, they had tripped and been shot down an almost perpendicular slope of ice to a point where it joined the border of the upper glacier. [5]
Well, it was touching to see the queen blush and smile, and look embarrassed and happy, and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty. [5]
You may laugh--but to-day Paris might meet Helen with impunity, for Eros has shot his whole store of arrows into me. [10]
When, from time to time, the snow melted on the hillsides, I sometimes surprised a deer there and shot him with the heavy rifle. [9]
I know not to this day whether I shot from determination or nervousness. [9]
The Indian stood to take it like a man; but Pierre loved that kind of courage, and shot the knife into its sheath instead. [11]
Sudden he took to shiverin', and snatched me by the arm, and a mad look shot out of his handsome face. [11]
He made bold to risk a shot and light a fire, and thus we had buffalo meat for some days after. [9]
It was beginning to make its way through the upper windows, also, and presently a tongue of fire shot out and streamed upward along the side of the house. [6]
I wished not to fight, and I sprang aside; but he made a pass at me, and I drew my pistol and was about to fire, when another shot came from the hallway and struck him. [11]
The first man to desert will be shot down! [9]
I didn't stop to count, anyhow--I shinned down the tree and shot for home. [5]
He was encouraged to chance a parting shot, now, at the same target, and did it. [5]
This shot seemed to carry home. [5]
She was about to address the Bailly, but, as though a pang of pity shot, through her heart, she turned instead and looked at the Comtesse Chantavoine. [11]
There was a tilt in the glacier, and the gold-pan, suddenly swirling, again swung to the outer edge, and shot over. [11]
Once a Frenchman Tikhon was trying to capture fired a pistol at him and shot him in the fleshy part of the back. [2]
She was shot through the lungs. [11]
Rullecour fell, shot through the jaw. [11]
He shot Badeni through the arm and then walked over in the politest way and inspected his game, shook hands, expressed regret, and all that. [5]
A pain shot through my body. [9]
The thought shot through me that I was a murderer; that I had killed a man--a man who had never done me any harm. [5]
And now--now--" The thought of the bridge, of Marchand's devilish design, shot into his mind, and once more he was shaken. [11]
He therefore launched this shaft of ridicule, and got it to pass as an arrow of wisdom shot out of a popular experience in remote ages. [4]
I stood turning this problem in my mind, subconsciously aware of Cowan's movements: of his yells when he thought he had made a shot, when Polly Ann appeared at the doorway. [9]
Days upon days, they travelled with incredible labour, now portaging over a stubborn country, now, placing their lives in hazard as they shot down untravelled rapids. [11]
As soon as they let go, he placed all his feet in a bunch together, lowered his back, and then suddenly arched it upward, and shot me straight into the air a matter of three or four feet! [5]
The more ignorant they are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven't shot over their heads. [5]
Of some of these the plaster between the carved beams had been shot away, the roofs blown off, and the tiny hewn rafters were bared to the sky. [9]
When one of these looked in and passed on, I could not help thinking-- "Now this don't afford you any satisfaction--a party with his head shot off is what you need. [5]
Signal-wires run from these houses to the targets, where there are attendants who telegraph the effect of every shot. [4]
All at once there shot through Pierre's body an impulse, and his eyes lighted with excitement. [11]
But as suddenly there shot through his mind a thought which brought him to his feet with a spring. [11]
As he spoke, there shot before our eyes a steaming tug-boat, and a second look was not needed to assure me that she was the "H. Sinclair, of Far Harbor. [9]
Only now and then detached ideas and impressions from the world of reality shot unexpectedly through his mind. [2]
Manners ejaculated, and then came to an abrupt pause, while I wondered whether the shot had told. [9]
There shot into them a look of horror and relief in one, if such a thing might be. [11]
Suddenly something happened: the young officer gave a gasp and bending double sat down on the ground like a bird shot on the wing. [2]
The soldiers in the yard, hearing the shot, came into the passage asking what had happened, and expressed their readiness to punish the culprits, but the officer sternly checked them. [2]
A spark from the wood-fire was shot out, and it lit on the slope of the tent. [5]
As I took the volume from her and sat down Maude shot at me a swift look of surprise. [9]
This ass with the unpronounceable name was probably more insane than usual this week or two back, and may get back upon his bearings by and by, but he was over the sanity-border when he shot the President. [5]
I could feel the stern malice in our ranks, as we stood there and took, without returning a shot, that damnable fire. [11]
Once seated in the stern between Mr. Carvel's knees, what rapture when at last we shot out into the blue waters of the bay and I thought of the long summer of joy before me. [9]
The trimmers rigged the splinter nettings, got out spare spars and blocks and ropes against those that were sure to be shot away, and rolled up casks of water to put out the fires. [9]
At Dorogobuzh while the soldiers of the convoy, after locking the prisoners in a stable, had gone off to pillage their own stores, several of the soldier prisoners tunneled under the wall and ran away, but were recaptured by the French and shot. [2]

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