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cross hairs and hear the fatal click of the firing pin
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John looks over his shoulder in the direction of the firing, takes off his wedding ring slowly, studies it sadly for a moment, digs out a small hole in the ground with his hand, buries it, puts a rock on top
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" She grunted a little as she took the MA-48’s recoil, firing with one hand and holding on to the knuckledragger’s pommel with the other
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The topside turret wasn’t firing anymore
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Allowing the other pedestrians to pass, she paused, one hand on the post of the crossing for balance, and bent over fiddling with her shoe, her senses firing off warnings … she could smell danger
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What went on? What happened?" Steve was firing questions at him left and right; and all of his fellow riders were waiting for his answer
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The men below were firing, killing them as fast as they could, but more kept emerging from the brush
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Firing off questions as they went they followed him into the cave and Sam put them all to work
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Together we lay side by side defending the roads of Athens and firing our pistols at the Nazis
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Instead of firing the poor girl, the chairman’s wife asked the maid to sew a little bag of the finest silk and fill it with ground up Puy lentils
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Heading towards the sound they came upon two Gatonen firing at what look like a small child
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of firing the poor girl, the chairman’s wife asked the maid to sew a
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Will I be back in three months, or is this simply a soft way of firing me?”
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and firing at them just annoys them
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“For firing that guy I think
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He is armed and dangerous, but the act of firing guns is one that he leaves to the boys
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He took every firing as a personal failure, when she’d started to look at it that way, her entire way of looking at life changed
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The wood chipper struggled to start, firing and then stopping, like a car
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chest and torso, like he was a bull’s-eye at the firing range
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fiddled with safety, and then began firing at Stenworth
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Then there was a bellow from their commander and, almost as one, the two hundred plus criminals charged the village, screaming and firing as they came
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He was about to get in more firing practice when he spotted other shapes moving in the crowd below
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And then the intensity of firing increased at Patrick’s wall
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"Tried to warn you," Alec said to the Death Guard before firing another round into the street
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"All those preaching peace and brotherhood on one hand and firing off anger, discontent and bomb throwing on the other
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The marine slowed to a walk, dropped the machine gun and pulled out his Colt, firing as he walked
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Yet the archers were firing, and the Thanes hacking downward with their swords, and still the wall rocked under the weight of the coming horde
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Firing a cannon in a storm is an old and honored tradition among seafaring men
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“For pity’s sake watch those fucking machine guns the little bastards have got them emplaced on the cliff tops and that’s a perfect firing position to enfilade down on us
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“Look to your front here come some more of the buggers don’t let them get the well!” I could see him aiming and firing ever so calmly with a rifle that must have belonged to poor Fred Elliot and that he must have dropped when he was hit
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He even once more felt the presence of his old body, like a yearning beyond what had once passed for proprioceptive reality: his brain telling him this was the case against any counter evidence, just the accordant neurons firing again
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“Bloody hell lads I haven’t seen a Turk or anything that looks dangerous since we started at this rate we will be able to walk into Krithia without firing a shot
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All of a sudden we heard heavy firing coming from over on our right were some of the 86th Brigade lads where but just at that moment we were moving through a gully and so couldn’t pinpoint the direction
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“Still think were going to walk into Krithia without firing a shot do you?” He looked over towards me and shook his head violently saying
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Firing appropriate thrusters the vessel turned almost on the spot to face the oncoming escort vessels which were almost twice its size
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No one could take the amount of punishment that they were and the ground under their feet looked a deeper black and I realised it was blood as we kept on firing the attack stalled and then faded away
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We could hear over on our left a lot of firing going on and see flares shoot into the sky so something was happening
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We believed it because the Turkish artillery was lashing the beaches firing down from Achi Baba but what really convinced us was that ‘Asiatic Annie’ was firing her heavy shells at both V and W Beaches
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The Elusiver ships were still firing, aiming in his direction
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However what was only minutes later but seemed like hours the final strand was cut but the tins kept rattling making us jump but eventually we made it back to our own trench without the Turks firing a shot
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He then went on to show us where they thought the sniper was firing from but the position he showed me didn’t seem a likely one
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I passed out but before I did I saw Elijah drop down and I knew he had been hit I didn’t see the stretcher bearers who came out and picked me up when the firing died down
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disk or in memory, and the third element was the killer, the harpoon, firing a few small items of trash code into those sectors and corrupting them
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While we where here on Salisbury plain the training really intensified the route marches got longer and the whole physical training side was stepped up as well as firing practice and tactical problems bayonet drill and obviously fatigues and working parties
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We walked along other communications trenches and then we heard firing very close by and a flare arced up into the sky bursting and bathing everything in its bright white light
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“A lot better than some in this sector the firing steps have been raised a bit and the parapets well earthed
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They showed us our firing and stand to positions and a couple of dugouts we could take shelter in to sleep if the weather was bad
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The noise rattled out across the landscape and then the whole front opened up with flares arcing into the sky and firing coming from all directions at once or so it seemed to me
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The morning hate had been fierce earlier with trench-mortars and artillery firing both ways just to welcome us back to the front
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At the moment though me and Bert were sat on the firing step having a chin wag and a fag when he suddenly said
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can your brother know you are here?” I replied soberly as the sound of tanks firing echoed from the
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We heard a ‘click’ that could only have been an empty firing chamber receiving a hammer
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As the Alabama sank, some twenty minutes after the firing ceased, most of her crew were rescued by the Kearsarge and by the British yacht Deerhound
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“Don’t you worry my rifle barrel will be red hoe I will be firing that fast because at the moment I’m seconds away from pissing in my pants and that’s no joke
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But then all hell let loose as machine guns and rifles began firing and we began to give covering fire as the bomber s threw there bombs
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“That’s more than one machine gun firing and I say its jolly decent of them they must have ammo to burn
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Then we heard the shells whistle and moan overhead but they were firing long and hitting the German reserve trenches instead of the front line ones
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“Come on you dam Tommie’s we are ready and waiting for you”, and the whole of the German line in our sector opened up firing
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But now to make things even worse the Germans started firing shrapnel shells from their hidden batteries behind Serre
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Then I heard no their alright and the two of them are running to the next hole then it was time for the next two to go and I began firing again
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“They have made it to the first hole”, I stopped firing
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After firing two shots over her bow, the Thornton came about, and a prize crew from the Shenandoah under Lieutenant Scales was sent to board her and take charge
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The only problem with this was so could the Germans who started spraying the whole of the area in front of them with machine gun fire I yelled to Sam to get down and we both fell to the floor and pressed ourselves into the ground waiting for the flares to go out and the firing to stop and praying it wouldn’t hit us
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A safety system prevented him from actually setting off the firing sequence on a non-identified standard target
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projectile to a distance of 27 miles, after having exploded 300 pounds of black powder in the firing tube
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Said sentence shall be carried out by firing squad on the 20th of July 1916 subject to confirmation by the Commander in Chief and may god have mercy on you
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I wanted to scream Rosie at the top of my voice she was my little sister my second love and I thought that I was going to die there and then and save the firing squad a job
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I would look the firing squad in the eyes and try to show no fear and I would die like Rosie had with dignity and courage
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“I apologise Corporal of course I won’t face the firing squad I just wanted you to know that I will not only be here with you physically but mentally as well
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“Would you like a last smoke it seems the firing party are a little late?” So I replied
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Eventually the firing squad turned up and if I hadn’t been strapped to the chair I would have fallen off it for these twelve men were from my own Battalion
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I looked out and had to squint a bit but I saw that my good friend Tommy Macey was the firing squad Sergeant and his face was whiter than mine and he looked like he was going to be sick
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Regardless of how the crowd had reacted, would Ruby Tower punish him? Would he face the firing squad? Or the dark room? The thought of solitary confinement and sensory deprivation made him shudder, and he prayed that whatever Ruby Tower had in store for him, it would not be that
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San Francisco had two weeks to prepare for the game and rather than a letdown, came in to it with all cylinders firing
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firing squad, certain there’d be a reprieve even as men lined up before him with guns aimed at his
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If you had more bullets, or had your own bullets you could get away with firing shots without reporting them
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The Special Service Corps held the rear; and sick at heart and worn out, the white troops plodded homeward: the Expedition had ended without their firing a shot
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General Lawton, with the 1st and 22nd Regular Infantry, 2nd Massachusetts, and detachments of the 4th, 8th, and 25th Infantry, pushed ahead into Siboney, finding it already occupied by Cubans under General Castillo, who had attacked the rear guard of Linares, as they were firing the town
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I had a Sub Thompson with a thirty clip inserted and was about to start firing into the underbrush
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That would be by firing squad though
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It is also whispered that I ground my P38’s firing pin away until it would not shoot and thus jumped the queue and received a brand new Z88 in its place
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Grimes’ Battery had reopened, and as there was imminent risk from our own shells falling short, he sent orders to the artillery to cease firing while the troops deployed
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When General Wheeler heard the firing, he rose from his cot and journeyed to the front in an ambulance
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The penetration capability of the 9mm parabellum round is poor, especially if the lad you are shooting at is armed with an AK47, and firing at you at a distance greater than you would encounter within a room
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It was a relief to join in and pump a Winchester at the hidden enemy; but the order was soon passed down: “Cease firing! Load magazines!”
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And forgetting to load a ballistic round and firing the rifle grenade with a full metal jacket was inviting disaster and a severe fatherly talk
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But their uniforms showed through the trees as they mounted, a volley was fired into them, and despite the efforts of Major Irles and others, they wheeled and galloped into the city, losing very heavily as their rear became even more dangerous than the firing line
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To unload one you needed to load and then eject all the shells (shotgun bullets are called shells) one by one and then make very sure that it was indeed unloaded before pulling the trigger to relax the firing pin
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But as we watched the straw hats bobbing, and an occasional swarthy face, the whole cavalry division reverted from individual firing to rapid volleys, a machine gun turned loose, the infantry on our left were responding strongly, and the enemy withdrew to their first line of entrenchments with loss
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Dawn spent the next two hours firing away at the clays that Terry sent soaring into the sky above the trees
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The firing on the extreme flanks at Caney and Aguadores continued, though news soon reached the centre that Duffield had retired to Siboney, the fleet continuing the attack from the sea
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These guerilla had fired indiscriminately at wounded and litter-carriers far behind the firing line
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There was no lull in the firing all day, and one instinctively worked among the wounded, for “the harvest was plenteous, but the labourers were few
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The firing died away with the daylight, and having secured my horse, I started to ride toward Caney, hoping to aid Creelman
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Chuckles hissed softly, the synapses in its brains firing electrical impulses faster and faster until the rage had raised a fur ridge along its spine
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At daybreak on the 11th, firing was resumed; but the Spaniards replied weakly
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Shafter favoured a firing squad to end this sorry debacle, but wiser heads, of which there were plenty, prevailed and order was soon restored
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The gun’s recoil thumped the butt into Dawn’s shoulder but she hardly felt a thing, pumping a new cartridge into the chamber, training the sights on another cat and firing again
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Dunn saw him but hesitated before firing
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They got so badly defeated that their top general was executed by firing squad for his defeats
