"Shoot down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that number we brought off wounded, and it is conjectured (I believe with much truth) that two thirds of both received their shot from our own cowardly Regulars, who gathered themselves into a body, contrary to orders, ten or twelve deep, would then level, fire and shoot down the ...
— George Washington • William Roscoe Thayer
... this quiet, as the Water-Gate is watched on the outside night and day by Chinese sharpshooters. It is the last gap leading to the outer world which is still left open. Tortured by the sight of these starving wretches, who moan and mutter night and day, the posts near by shoot down dogs and cows and drag them there. They say everything is devoured raw with ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... was this the case in the days of the greatest bison destruction, when a still-hunter could get "a stand" on a bunch of buffaloes quietly grazing at the edge of the great mass, and slowly and surely shoot down each animal that attempted to lead that group away from ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... can't shoot down this young fellow without making all kinds of trouble. First thing we'd lose the claims. The Administration would drop you like a hot potato if you did a thing like that. Sheba would never speak to you again. Your friends ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... than the rest of the rock, caught in his clothes, righting the boy's body, permitting him to shoot down the rest of the way, ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in Montana • Frank Gee Patchin
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