So saying, and without showing the least anxiety to pause upon his aim, Locksley stept to the appointed station, and shot his arrow as carelessly in appearance as if he had not even looked at the mark.
Thus exhorted, Hubert resumed his place, and not neglecting the caution which he had received from his adversary, he made the necessary allowance for a very light air of wind, which had just arisen, and shot so successfully that his arrow alighted in the very centre of the target.
Now, comrade, I take no flight shot, and I give you the vantage of watching my shaft."
"I scarce shot as many shafts at Brignais," growled the man of Brabant; "though I found a better mark there than a cantle of bull's hide.
"But wouldn't the shot be heard at the inn or somewhere?" asked March.
Shooting was going on all over the place all day; very likely he timed his shot so as to drown it in a number of others.
Ball after ball flew over or fell short or kicked up the sand in the enclosure, but they had to fire so high that the
shot fell dead and buried itself in the soft sand.
"But," interrupted the major, "since the weight of a
shot is proportionate to its volume, an iron ball of nine feet in diameter would be of tremendous weight."
“I would fain establish a right, Natty, to the honor of this death; and surely if the hit in the neck be mine it is enough; for the
shot in the heart was unnecessary—what we call an act of supererogation, Leather-Stocking.”
He has a scar on his forehead, caused by a blow; and one on his back, made by a
shot from a pistol.'
Good jumped at the idea, for he was longing to have a
shot at those elephants; and so, to speak the truth, did I, for it went against my conscience to let such a herd as that escape without a pull at them.
Some had
shot deer in hungry wintertime, when they could get no other food, and had been seen in the act by the foresters, but had escaped, thus saving their ears; some had been turned out of their inheritance, that their farms might be added to the King's lands in Sherwood Forest; some had been despoiled by a great baron or a rich abbot or a powerful esquire-- all, for one cause or another, had come to Sherwood to escape wrong and oppression.