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Updated: May 22, 2025
Alone in the open area of No Man's Land, Tom Slade paused for an instant to think. What should he do? Suddenly there appeared out of a shell hole not twenty feet ahead of him a helmeted figure. It rose up grimly, uncannily, like a dragon out of the sea, and levelled a rifle straight at him. So that was the lair of the sharpshooter! Tom was not afraid.
The vigilant and devoted little governor, before effecting his entrance into the sally port, was picked off by a sharpshooter, and died the next day. This seemed the necessary fate of the commandants of Ostend, where the operations seemed more like a pitched battle lasting three years than an ordinary siege.
"Might as well make it a good one while we're at it," said he. "And five." "One thousand!" said the Sharpshooter, his smile broadening. "Pretty fair price for a trick horse, eh, Curry?" The old man paused with a generous helping of tobacco halfway to its destination. He regarded Engle with unblinking gravity.
A girl who was always laughing and who always wore a red bow on her head. He, Alaric, would go with his son as far as the cypress hedge, bordering the west side of the lake. There he would wait for the child to do his errand and return, and would himself be out of sight of that old sharpshooter, whom he feared. He had another inspiration of generosity and greed commingled. That lamb of José's.
At the former battle he was wounded by an American sharpshooter, and had an opportunity, of which he forbore taking advantage, to himself shoot an American officer of high rank, who unsuspectingly approached the place where he lay hid; he always insisted that the man he thus spared was no less a person than Washington.
The putty, from age, was as solid as cement. The whole window was a bare sixteen by twenty inches. Lad ran back, once more, a few feet; his gaze fixed appraisingly on the window and measuring his distance with the sureness of a sharpshooter. The big collie had made up his mind. His plan was formed.
There was no answer from the sharpshooter, who had gotten his horse into a steady trot and was putting the road behind him in a manner that needed all Ninian's efforts to match.
A part of Lowell's brigade, dismounted, was posted well to the front, the Michigan brigade, mounted, in its rear. While in this position, having occasion to ride up into the battery to speak to Captain Martin, a sharpshooter in Middletown took a shot at us. The bullet narrowly missed the captain and buried itself in my horse's shoulder.
Don't you wish you might be luckier than I, Mr. Ninian?" A glance flashed between the reporter and the sharpshooter, but not quite swiftly enough to escape the girl's observation; and, after a moment's pause, she exclaimed: "Why, I believe you have already seen it!" There was an awkward silence, which Mrs. Trent broke by the stern reproof she managed to throw into one word: "Jessica!"
But it does mean that any skilful handler of any machine must know how to use it; that a sharpshooter, for instance, must know how to use his machine the gun. Of course, a sharpshooter's skill is exercised in operating under very limited conditions, the conditions of shooting; and it does not include necessarily the maintenance of his gun in good condition.
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