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  • It'll take six months 'shootin'-leave in India to mend it.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 8 Huntin and shootin is the new Blog started by Justin Hinchcliffe.

    Archive 2007-01-14 Newmania 2007

  • 8 Huntin and shootin is the new Blog started by Justin Hinchcliffe.

    I Link therefore I am Newmania 2007

  • It was a face of subtle influences, and the very sight of it roused in Nehemiah a more heedful fear than the "shootin'-iron" in the bluff moonshiners hand had induced.

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • In such a coterie as this "eating humble-pie" is done only at the muzzle of a "shootin'-iron."

    The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • Two or three others were similarly armed; the advanced thinker had a hunting-knife, Job Grinnell a pistol that went by the name of "shootin'-iron."

    The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • Our nation's politics are more complicated now than they were when the whole fuckin' shootin' match split in two, and then both sides fought over it for four years.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Anne Johnson 2008

  • Our nation's politics are more complicated now than they were when the whole fuckin' shootin' match split in two, and then both sides fought over it for four years.

    Why Democracy Doesn't Work ... Again Anne Johnson 2008

  • But they's to be no killin ', an' no mo 'shootin' up houses whar they is women and chil'en.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • "After that bit o 'shootin' they'll wait a while before they push on to the top of the slope and find we're gone," said Jim as they ran.

    Jack Haydon's Quest John Finnemore

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