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Examples
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I can use the distraction, and hopefully his shooting-gallery aim.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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I can use the distraction, and hopefully his shooting-gallery aim.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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I can use the distraction, and hopefully his shooting-gallery aim.
Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009
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Clement was finding it hard to refuse his brother, who was anxious to go to the shooting-gallery for the first time, and who begged him to second his request to the
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Clement was finding it hard to refuse his brother, who was anxious to go to the shooting-gallery for the first time, and who begged him to second his request to the
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Imposed upon victims of the shooting-gallery Baghdad has become.
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I swear fearfully at cabmen and women; brandish my bludgeon, and perhaps knock down a little man or two with it: brag of the images which I break at the shooting-gallery, and pass amongst my friends for a whiskery fire-eater, afraid of neither man nor dragon.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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No man ever cantered a hack through the Champs Elysées with such elegant assurance; no man ever made such a massacre of dolls at the shooting-gallery; or won you a rubber at billiards with more easy grace; or thundered out a couplet out of Béranger with such a roaring melodious bass.
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Jacques Rival received the arrivals at the entrance to his apartments, then he pointed to a small staircase which led to the cellar in which were his shooting-gallery and fencing-room, saying:
Bel Ami 2003
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“I watched our men standing in a shooting-gallery line, thumping bullets into the piles of Japanese carcasses,” Tregaskis wrote.
The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003
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