"Bull's eye" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... miserable constable took no notice of my warning. He only took me by the arm, and, turning his bull's eye and a suspicious glance upon my ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
... you got to step lively, an' not linger 'round for no sweet farewells. Now, you got your little temper with you, all right, all right! If you also got a umbrella, why, just you make a combine o' the two an'—aim for the bull's eye, though his nose will do just as good, specially if it's the bleedin' v'riety. No! P'licemen ain't what I'd reckmend, for bein' called to the resquer. In the first place, they ain't ap' to be there. An', besides, they wouldn't ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann
... the bull's eye like a man, Miss Meredith," Captain Olliver took her up promptly. "The Major never told us he was adding a crack shot to the regiment!" And he swept her a bow that ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... "A bull's eye," said Platt, "and I'd give forty acres of unirrigated Pecos County land to know how ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... the bull's eye in the very middle three times! I am a wicked man,—I have no heart,—I'm not worthy to be loved. No I'm not. I should find it ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... she sung as Vesty doos. I don' say that she pernounced the words jest regalar; but as fur as tune goes, she hit the tune right squar' in the bull's eye every time. ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... having lived in the loneliness of widowhood for thirty years on the slenderest of means, yet, we are told, "in a noble, humbly admirable, and even happy and contented manner;" and there are many such women. But Bell Thomson, the keeper of this outlying lodge of the earl's, had no chance of the bull's eye from the lantern of genius throwing her into a strong permanent light, nor had the friend who had come to be with her. Happily, the pathetic in their circumstances did not strike themselves as it might strike others, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 • Various |
