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  • Whitey Lockman: The toughest guy for me to hit was Curt Simmons … a cross-firing guy and he could throw hard.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Whitey Lockman: The toughest guy for me to hit was Curt Simmons … a cross-firing guy and he could throw hard.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Whitey Lockman: The toughest guy for me to hit was Curt Simmons … a cross-firing guy and he could throw hard.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • The Problems and Causes course covers stride alignment, physiological movement of the hoof, winging in, winging out, forging, scalping, cross-firing, bowed tendons, and ring bone.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • The Problems and Causes course covers stride alignment, physiological movement of the hoof, winging in, winging out, forging, scalping, cross-firing, bowed tendons, and ring bone.

    You’re Certifiable Joel Naftali Lee 1999

  • They blazed at it in batteries; they tried to find it by means of cross-firing; they lined men up on the sky-line of kopjes to draw the fire; they limbered up and galloped far out on the veldt, until the enemy's rifle fire drove them in again; but all in vain.

    Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

  • I have seen exhibitions of cross-firing not strictly in accordance with one's ideas of a gentleman.

    Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

  • Again and again came those awful volleys of musketry and artillery cross-firing on the rushing lines.

    The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905

  • We ought to do our work here without unnecessary cross-firing from our friends.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • We ought to do our work here without unnecessary cross-firing from our friends.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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