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Updated: June 21, 2025
This time the tension increases an hundredfold; every nerve is strained; every muscle ready. Hardly have the echoes been lost when from far up the ridges comes a deep, sudden, ugly roar that penetrates the woods like a rifle-shot. Again it comes, and nearer!
A lot of wild men, all crazy for gold. Gold that only a few could find and none could keep! ... I pray every night to live to get back home." Mrs. Durade had no reply; she gazed away over the ridges toward the east with a haunting shadow in her eyes. Just then a rifle-shot sounded from up in the ravine. The men paused in their tasks and looked at one another.
"There are two presents to be made to an enemy palla calda o ferro freddo: hot shot or cold steel." The Corsican code of honor does not require that vengeance be taken in fair fight. Rather should there be a sudden thrust of the knife, or a pistol fired point-blank into the enemy's breast, or a rifle-shot from some ambush picked in advance.
If we happen to see a deer within rifle-shot, so that we can get at him without much loss of time, we will stop, for after all fresh meat is better eating than dry." "I should think it would be, uncle," Tom said. "From the look of the stuff I should think it would be quite as tough as shoe leather and as tasteless."
Although he was within easy rifle-shot, no one essayed to fire, and he knew none would do so. Not even that skillful marksman, Sut Simpson, dared make the trial, for the painted body of the sinewy red-skin was covered by that of the boy, whom he held in front of him, and he who fired at the wretch was much more likely to kill the lad so cunningly held in his arms.
Our allies, after our first attack, had rejoined us, and waited close at hand to dash forward again, should they see a favourable opportunity. At length the Coomanches, having swept round out of rifle-shot, disappeared behind, the wood from which they had emerged. No sooner had they gone, than our allies threw themselves from their horses and dashed forward towards the bodies of the slain.
But they had prudently stopped building; and the pause continued until the day of the great silver strike at Saint's Rest. The new carbonate beds chanced to lie within easy rifle-shot of the summit of Plug Pass; in other words, they were precisely on the line of the extension survey of the narrow gauge. The discovery was a piece of sheer luck for the amateur railroad builders.
"No, thanky," said Bob; "I could manage the glass of wine, but I'm not going to spoil it with the quinine, I'm There now, what's that? If that isn't a rifle-shot I'm no man." "Then it isn't a rifle-shot," said the lieutenant, grimly. "I heard nothing." "Beg pardon, sir, I think it was a shot." "There's another!" cried Bob, excitedly. "It's our fellows somewhere."
For, though himself and the boat's crew remained untainted, and though his ship was half a rifle-shot off, and an incorruptible sea and air rolling and flowing between; yet conscientiously adhering to the timid quarantine of the land, he peremptorily refused to come into direct contact with the Pequod. But this did by no means prevent all communications.
Now and then a rifle-shot was fired, and sometimes there was a succession of shots.... "In the morning," he said, as he turned on his side and closed his eyes, "they'll be cleared out of that!..." He awoke suddenly, and sat up in bed. "Good Lord!" he exclaimed, "I've been asleep!" It was still dark, but less dark than it was when he came to bed.
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