"Firing off" Quotes from Famous Books
... the steamer at Fort Garry (Winnipeg) was celebrated with great rejoicing. Indians ran along the river-bank firing off rifles in welcome, and opposite the flats where the fort gate opened, on what is now Main Street, the company's men came out and fired a royal salute. The people bound for Cariboo camped on the flats outside Fort Garry. Here was a strange world indeed. ... — The Cariboo Trail - A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia • Agnes C. Laut
... poured out the tea, which afforded Saul Arthur Mann an opportunity of firing off fifty facts about Geneva in ... — The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace |