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It's not a high-class resort; not select enough by a long shot, to have this brand of liquor in its cellar.
And at the same moment, he saw the man with the unmistakable ginger beard kneel down on the ground, level his gun, and coolly take his time for the long shot.
They laughed at the unexpected eruption of apples, and clapped their hands in applause of the long shot by the man with the ginger beard.
Very few were interested in him, and they were the certain, definite percentage of a gambling crowd that plays long shots.
He was wonderfully patient in stalking an animal or waiting for its near approach, as he never ventured on a long shot, and did not understand our objection to pot-shooting.
It was a long shot, and the first bullet threw up a cloud of dust fifty feet short of the Airedales.
I've learned a few things myself this year, and I am not so cock sure in my views as I was by a long shot.
No, I'm not through, by a long shot, but it's all I have time for now, for I came on a different matter.
"Good long shot, little man," said the sergeant, "and you may have the choice of cuts, just so I get a rib."
People may talk and write about "dry farming" all they please, but I wish to observe that from Dry-Farming to Success is a long shot, with many limbs in the way.
It was rather a long shot, but it reached him, as we afterwards ascertained, making an ugly wound in the small near his tail.
He had made a long shot when he spoke so confidently of the brand on the calf being worked over.
It will be a long shot, remember, so make allowances; and the wind is with you, not against you.
It was a long shot, but not so very difficult; Old Whitehead had got his bearings and was moving steadily, straight away.
I had a long shot at a four-horned buck, but the smooth bore of my piece was not equal to the distance.
One was to pocket his adversary's ball; the other a long shot which required considerable skill.
In the meantime, the trained part of me had jerked the gun off my shoulder, pushed forward the safety catch, and prepared for one hasty long shot at the last and slowest of the ducks.
This war is not over yet by a long shot, and I should like to offer some advice to the boys who are going over from this continent.
It's a long shot, but I'm a pretty sharp guy, and I know as much about this stuff as anyone out there.
Robert was in fear lest they rush away in a panic, and so he took a long shot at the cow, bringing her down, but failing to kill her, as she rose after falling and began to make off.
Despite their losses, they still hung around the hill, and, giving up the attempt to stalk the defenders through the grass, fired long shots from the cover of the forest.
It was a long shot, yet I struck him fairly, and he rose instantly right upward, towering high!
It was not a long shot, but in his excitement he missed, and the report of the rifle did not, apparently, in any manner decrease or accelerate the bear's speed.
While they were deemed sufficient for making a long shot and striking the enemy from afar, they were of little use as battering guns because they fire a small ball.
You ask if I can paint: yes, I can paint; not as well as I want to by a long shot, but I mean to be a great painter.
The actual limit is when the star has reached the density of a neutron, and this star hasn't collapsed that far by a long shot.
We'll have to show them that because they're running loose and in a pack, they don't own the woods by a long shot.
After at least an hour and a half I succeeded in obtaining a long shot with a single rifle, which passed through the shoulder, and I secured my first and last donkey.
The beasts were fully six hundred yards off, a very long shot, and one not to be depended on when our lives hung on the results.
He stood quite still and gave me every opportunity, but whether it was the excitement or the wind, or the fact of the man being a long shot, I don't know, but this was what happened.
It was a long shot; but as the nature of the ground rendered it impossible for Dick to get nearer without being seen, he fired, and wounded the buck so badly that he came up with it in a few minutes.
Tom was beginning to regret that he had not fired a long shot at them, when he heard a crash behind him, and looking back saw a monstrous bull-elephant making a terrific charge at him.
"That's what I've been thinking myself, though of course I don't know as much about them as you do, by a long shot," Bob admitted.
His long shot had paid off and there was still a chance he could get Costa out of the trap he had let him walk into.
Wherever Garibaldi went he was accompanied by an eccentric Englishman who was an excellent long shot with the rifle, and whose delight it was to "pot" off Austrians at incredible distances.
Columbus was a great man for coming to America, but every foreigner who has come over since isn't, not by a long shot.
There will be light enough: there will (as Sir Lucius says) be very pretty small-sword light, though it will not do for a long shot.
I discovered that he wasn't dead by a long shot, although he had been hurt quite badly, and he'd bled a lot.
It is much more difficult to guide than a ball, requires greater deliberation for a long shot, and more easily stops or goes out of bounds.
That crack I got on the head was a fierce one, I admit, but it isn't going to knock me out, not by a long shot!
The action was at no time very warm, but it was durable, and our troops by the gallant exertions of our officers, were rallied frequently, but always fought at long shot.
The man who tries to place his long shot on the green may try again and again, and he will be convinced that it is next to impossible to stop there when he reaches it.
He had elevated the sight for a very long shot, regarding it as a mere chance, but the bullet struck a pony and a few moments of confusion in the band followed.
He's richer than I am now, by a long shot, but he used to say he'd do anything to prove his gratitude.
I fired a couple of long shots, which had the effect only of setting them off again over the prairie.
He was chancing a long shot, rather than taking the risk of approaching any nearer to the animals.
He moved in cautiously, camera grinding, then backed away again when he thought he had enough long shots.
Whenever the enemy saw our men collected on this height, they saluted us with long shots from a gun of enormous size.
It was a long shot probability, but it was their duty to protect against such a probability destroying what they had achieved.
As a matter of fact, the only thing he could possibly do was to play a long shot; to take a one in a million chance, and pray as he had never before prayed in his life.
We worked our way amidst the trees, and eventually obtained a few long shots, and succeeded in bagging two more.
"Not by a long shot, but I guess you can star for a night anyway, Martha, even with a one-horse angel."
He thought again about the "one week of sunshine," and as a long shot checked to see if anyone had been admitted this week.
There's a long shot that Grove Pharmacy might have a new address for the prescription number.
Nothing resembled the page I'd lifted, but locating that document now appeared increasingly like a long shot anyhow.
She was as quick as Betty and with her practiced on the floor to make long shots from different angles.
I think we were a little better in our guarding, but you overcame that disadvantage by those long shots that we did not dream you could make.
We have fallen from society, I know, but we're not to be classed, not by a long shot, with those women to whose ranks you would like to reduce us.
He thought to himself, "His skin will make me a fine pouch," and immediately drew up, at long shots, and drove an arrow into his side.
The next shot is fired at a distance midway between the short shot and the long shot, and thus the correct range is found.
His famous long shot, decidedly the most remarkable given at that afternoon's exhibition of shooting, speedily became famous.
Mark gloried in the number, as it was a long shot at the duck, and they showed that he had aimed straight.
Philip, strong in the belief that some inland lake was the immediate object of its flight, had first marked its course, and then brought it down with a long shot.
Whenever they do come, let me tell you, a man will scarce have time to get up from his straw bed, before he's laid down again by a long shot of the enemy.
Then Sam said that was a very long shot, and he would like to know just what the distance was.
One of the men, in revenge, fired a long shot at a great male, who was sitting alone upon a high rock, and by chance the ball struck him in the head.
The yell went up from the long-shot players in the room who had taken a chance on Jim Conway.
Their commanders seemed to realize this too, for they once more began to try long shots at us.
He'd never have told me what he did about his long shot if I hadn't made twenty thousand for him in two days shorting steel common.
It was rare in that place, and, anxious to secure it, I fired a very long shot, for it was extremely shy.
I fired my first long shot at them as they were entering a ravine below me, and I missed, for my hands were unsteady from my laboring breath.
I know a thing or two about what you fellows are up to, and let me tell you that the union won't stand for it by a long shot!
"Kitty isn't tied up yet, by a long shot," laughed Lloyd, who found it hard to take Gay's shy confession seriously.
Since the boys had no rifles of their own and the family Winchester was in use, they had to be content with long shots with revolvers.
In the course of the day George took two long shots at ducks, and missed both times; it would have been phenomenal if he hadn't.
They made a great commotion, passing the ball fast, executing rapid turns and pivots and taking long shots at the baskets.
Nervous because he knew he was being watched, Dan tried a long shot from mid-floor, and missed the basket.
This may seem very short, but it looks a long shot on a stage; and it must be remembered that the shooting is at very small objects and no misses are allowable.
With bears and wild boar seventy yards is a long shot, from ten to forty is the usual distance.
Maloney fired again, and again Elliott, by our side, tried two more long shots with his revolver.
The other, catching the alarm, turned and fled too, but stopped to look about for the cause of alarm; so, taking advantage of this chance, I levelled Whitworth, and rolled him over, a long shot.
Davis had taken a long shot, but he saw, from the expression on the proprietor's face that it had reached the mark.
"Aside from a mere detail like that, I don't mind saying that Johnny Gamble has just bet the last hundred dollars he has in the world on an absolutely criminal long shot."
I saw two dark mouse-brown deer, but could not get at them, and, of course, for a long shot I wanted my Express rifle.
The artillery had some fair long shots, and occasionally other troops also came within reach of the enemy.
"A long shot, but I gave a little elevation, and aimed for the center of his shoulders," said Tyler to himself.
It is, to be sure, possible to hit over them, but the feat entails a carry of some two hundred yards, and even Ray admits that a long shot is wanted to get clear to the left.
I've heard folks say that they were the fastest thing that runs on the prairie, but it ain't so, by a long shot.
I stood up against the tree and took a careful aim at the man, shooting plenty high, for they were a long shot off.
Long shots were taken when it was found almost impossible to crash through the human defense walls.
I was within long shot, and about to make preparations for a more deliberate and certain aim, when he took to the water, and then to the opposite young ice, bleeding and dropping every few yards.
The temptations of the flesh were too much for me: I ventured the ice, crawled on my belly, and reached long-shot distance.
I don't know all there is to know yet by a long shot, but I know a whole heap more than I did, which is something to be thankful for.
After talking awhile we tried the "long shot" game on them and found the paper shot through the center as before.
He knew the abilities of the men under him, and he would risk no such things as long shots, for he wanted every bullet to tell.
I sneaked out of the brook willows, took a long shot at the beast who struck her, and then pulled foot.
And if you want the honest truth, Colonel, if anybody had ever told me I'd try for a crazy long shot like that, I'd have told them they were nuts from away back.
I expect that, before he dies, he will give one of us a long shot yet, in revenge for the fall of young hopeful.
Then one of the party dropped the reins on his horse's neck, and with a long shot rolled him over, dead as a rabbit.
As the beast generally went down when one was about twenty yards away, a long shot had to be taken with a very clumsy gun.