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The loss was by skirmishing at long shots along the whole of the line.
Laban was for trying a long shot at him, but father stopped him, saying that it was evident the whites had not made up their minds what they were going to do with us, and that a shot at Lee might hurry them into making up their minds the wrong way.
He wasn't asleep, and I made a dandy long shot.
"I'm not a dead one by a long shot," she said, kindling with what was probably her desire to excite him.
"Camp" laborers are not "pioneers;" not by a long shot!
It was a long, a very long shot, but the hare perceptibly winced.
Once a warrior, perhaps a hunter, fired a long shot at them, but as his bullet missed they paid no attention to him, but, increasing their speed, fled southward at a pace no ordinary man could overtake.
Seeing the horses plunging, Juan calmly went to their heads and held them quiet by main strength, one in each hand, while Sam sprang from the wagon and by a long shot from his heavy rifle knocked down a good fat cow.
Harriet is a long shot too lenient.
The next morning in a mood of desperation, he took a long shot at a flying grouse and missed it.
With the second barrel I took a long shot at the man sitting amazed, astride of the rail above.
No matter how small the chance, their money would inevitably be laid on the side of their wishes, never against them, as if the wagering of a long shot was proof of their confidence and might in some way exercise a favorable influence on the outcome.
Then Mr Rogers tried again and again with the boys; but they had worse luck than the Zulu, for they never got near enough for anything but very doubtful long shots at many hundred yards, with the sole result of making the birds more shy.
It looks as though this idol wasn't all the blackguard things you've been calling it, by a long shot.
I'd rather have her for a daughter-in-law than a wife, by a long shot.
"Not when the man is murdered," Greg said hotly, "not by a long shot."
Wiley wanted to add clinching verisimilitude to the document and took a long shot.
This was not Jim's idea of making haste by a long shot, but he was enough of a traveler to recognize that the ways of men and nations differed and that nothing was to be gained by going against the grain of a national characteristic.
The long shot kicked up a lot of spray around the fleet American vessel, but it was of no use.
"Yes, there the beast is; I will risk a long shot," and he sighted the carbine.
Clifford was about to dismount to risk a long shot, the beast took to its heels in earnest.
He must realize that all bunkers are not of necessity to be carried with long shots.
"Not by a long shot," exclaimed Marcy indignantly.
The boast was perhaps exaggerated; but like many a long shot, it struck the gold.
It'll be the first marriage in the regiment, but not the first one that is ardently desired, by a long shot.
This was an immensely long shot to produce so immediate an effect so reloading quickly I stepped the distance.
Giving the little gun, with one barrel still loaded, to Wallace, I took the four-ounce rifle in exchange, as I knew I could not close up with the herd before they reached the jungle, and a long shot would be my last chance.
I have frequently tried these long shots since, but I never succeeded again except once, and that was not satisfactory, as the elephant did not die upon the spot, but was found by the natives on the following day.
Early the next morning Horace by a long shot killed a deer at the riverside.
My bar bill is about to be foreclosed, and I can use a long shot.
Either the atmospheric system had gone on the blink by itself, he thought, which was a hell of a long shot and too much of a coincidence, or else the alien, experimenting, had turned it off by accident.
It took an astonishingly long shot to bring him down.
Anne Harding had told him that he was not yet so "almighty strong as he thought himself, by a long shot."
Not enough by long shot to pay those beastly notes I owe you.
Ally had decided to try a long shot and see if she could pry out any information about Kristen from the patient files.
The end of this fight came when, for perhaps twenty seconds, we flew side by side, and at the same time as Long shot down our opponent, he riddled us with bullets, and I was very lucky to get home without the machine catching fire.
I rather like your nerve, and, as you have so charmingly put it, I am the sort of man to take a long shot.
Of course, it is a long shot and the young pessimists are much too logical to wait for such miraculous chances.
Takes a good long shot to carry that bunker.
And Johnson's a great jumper, and a good man at the hundred and hurdles, but he isn't up in the weights, by a long shot.
Cardigan, if you want to take a long shot, now's your chance to mark their hides.
It is studded with pillars commemorating the long shots made by the imperial archers.
You cannot follow through properly with a long shot if your eye remains fastened on the ground.
Al, though his horse, too, was beginning to show some signs of weariness, kept on until about fifty yards from the flank and rear of the herd when, not wishing to exhaust his horse, he decided to take his chance on a long shot.
Yet, withal, we overlook some pretty long shots because we flatter ourselves we are too busy to place small bets.
From the hour of his investiture as the town's chief man, thoughts which were long shots took possession of him.
Mimi made what appeared impossibly long shots rather than pass to Betsy under the goal.
And he immediately drew up at long shot and drove an arrow into the otter's side.
The stories so often told of "long shots" at deer and tigers and geese and other terrible wild beasts are for the greater part of the kind that are known as "fish stories," and Steve would have been glad if that buck had been a few rods nearer.
Presently, when Rojas came out of the cracks and ruts of lava there might be a chance of disabling him by a long shot.
They pulled hard and took a long shot as it humped its back going down.
All the eavesdropping, if you choose to call it that, was not done here, either, by a long shot, Worthington.
We gave 'em a volley, but it was a long shot, and our folks was rather much in a hurry.
Can you get a long shot down the trail to the gate, Pete, and keep skyline in the scene?
While going to retrieve the dead birds we flushed two more, both of which were bagged, one a long shot, wing-tipped, and not recovered till some time afterwards; for, ere we reached him, we had sprung a dozen, most of which were duly accounted for.
During this fight we see a long shot of Tom with an American flag and the marines coming down the street.
On both sides the cavalry skirmished by long shots.
The assailant had fled, but a long shot from the police on the hillside had toppled him over.
I'm not done yet by a long shot, and I'll down the critter if it takes all night.
A long shot had been taken of the French court, and it had been taken, according to custom, four times.
The first man of my troop touched was by one of these confounded long shots.
It was a long shot, but the scout had succeeded in making more ticklish ones in times past.
Marrying an English duke doesn't make a genuine duchess out of an American girl, not by a long shot.
"Not by a long shot," I replied hastily, and with considerable truthfulness.
And for making long shots, the wire cartridge has obviated the necessity of using long guns.
These feuds are a system of petty warfare, carried on by long shots, stealing cattle, and burning crops.
Compton once tried one of his long shots at a jay on the ground nearly eighty yards off.