It was a straight, solid, once-in-a-lifetime shot ; ;

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

He had no doubt the marine was the lead scout of a column, and while his shot had probably bred indecision, they would soon come hunting.

The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.

She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.

He has been in prison since May, 1958, when his aircraft was shot down over Moluccas.

It was not so much that the shot had stunned the audience, as that they had been stunned already.

The doctor shot down to the lavatory and turned the doorknob, but to no effect: the lavatory was occupied.

I tested it in my scoped S & W and it was good enough to allow me to hit a chuck with every shot at 100 yards if I did my part by holding the handgun steadily.

There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

After another treatment with the machine, he told her that `` her entire body was shot through with tumors and cysts ''.

Yes, she had missed it after her talk with Emile, after dinner, just before Emile was shot.

It was not even certain the shot had been fired from either hotel.

Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.

They had been with Payne when he was shot, could not therefore have shot him from above.

Willings was, presumably, a better than average shot.

The room was bathed in light at the instant Muller's second shot came.

According to the medical examiner, she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

According to the medical examiner she was shot between eleven p.m. and one a.m..

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.

Yet implicit in each movement was the death of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, perhaps you and me -- and the experts.

Almost from that day, until his death, Olgivanna was to stay at his side ; ;

The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

`` Mr. Wolfe had been in declining health for many years and death was not unexpected ''.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.

Spring was life -- and Alfred Alpert in his sickroom was death.

It was the first American war in which the death rate from disease was lower than that from battle, due to the provision of trained medical personnel ( of the 200,000 officers, 42,000 were physicians ), compulsory vaccination, rigorous camp sanitation, and adequate hospital facilities.

There can be no greater magic than to wrest from death her in whom the flesh was all, in whom beauty was entirely pure because it was entirely corruptible.

The medical examiner states that death was due to `` natural causes ''.

Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.

In my recollection, there was a long interval between the death of the officer and the appearance of the first of the retreating redcoats, and in that interval the dust cloud over the road seems to hover indefinitely.

One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.