the shots

• “In one thing, Mr. Povondra was mistaken: the shots exchanged at”

  The War with the Newts

• “Sharpe doubted that the cannonfire would do any damage, for he had no training in aiming such big guns, yet the shots were an expression of relief, even of joy.”

  Sharpe's Devil

• “And in order to protect those who were working at the causeway, he caused two turrets to be built, called "tortoise-towers," for there were two towers in front of the tortoises, and two outworks behind the towers, to shelter those on guard from the shots from the Turkish engines; for they had sixteen engines, all fixed.”

  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville

• “I had a glimpse of Madam Celeste being hurled aside by the burly villain, and then he and his mate were hallooing at the sight of us, the leader drawing a revolver - and Annette had a Derringer in her fist and was letting fly, once, twice, the sharp reports no louder than exploding caps, and God knows where the shots went, for he stood unharmed, covering us and roaring:”

  Flashman and the angel of the lord

• “The car the shots had been fired from had been hot, stolen an hour earlier from where it had been parked on West Fifty-sixth Street, and abandoned soon after the shooting, on Second Avenue.”

  The Black Mountain

• “Shed spotted them three nights before, riding on top of one of the new mag-lev trains, traveling at insane speeds through the factory districtso fast that all the shots Moggle had taken were too grainy and blurry to use.”

  Simon & Schuster: Extras

• “But the shots fell short, kicking up dirt; and already 3 Troop was lasing on that target at some 1500 metres, and obtained a hit with its second shot.”

  First Clash

• “When the Saracens saw this, they directed the shots from all their sixteen engines onto the causeway along which the tortoise had come; and when they saw that our men were afraid to go to the tortoise, because of the falling stones, they brought up the perronel, and flung Greek fire at the tortoise, and burnt it to the ground.”

  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville

• “Officials, mindful of the mumps vaccine scare, decided to include only measles and rubella in the shots distributed as part of the campaign.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Panic Virus

• “A certain family had just finished making a limekiln, and the shots were to celebrate the event.”

  High Albania

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