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Point-blank, he fired at the nearest slinking lizard.

Archive 2008-07-01 Dave Tackett 2008

Point-blank here -- what's the biggest surprise of the afternoon, the evening, if any?

CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2008 2008

Point-blank, he fired at the nearest slinking lizard.

The Lizard - Men of Alpha Astra Dave Tackett 2008

* Point-blank* -- as used here, the point where the projectile, when fired from a level bore, first strikes the horizontal ground in front of the cannon.

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

Caliber Point-blank range Elevation Range in yards in yards

Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy

Point-blank, on your honour as a gentleman, I ask you, _Are you_ or _are you not_ engaged to be married to Miss

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

Point-blank, I asked, "Is travelling in Serbia so very dangerous then?"

Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

Point-blank grief tends rather to seal up happiness for a time than to produce that attrition which results from griefs of anticipation that move onward with the days: these may be said to furrow away the capacity for pleasure.

Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

Point-blank opinion might consign the utterer to a prison whence release is not very easy, and therefore those who dislike the President's act go very little further than speculation as to its possible results.

London: Saturday, October 18, 1862 1862

Point-blank to where your handsome husband stands.

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 Charles Dickens 1841