"Marksmanship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... remain too near to me, because there was a time when I loved your employer quite as much as you do. This fact is urging me to dangerous ends. Yes, it is prompting me, even while I talk with you, to give you a lesson in marksmanship, my ...
— The Certain Hour • James Branch Cabell
... in the cornfield near their troops when they passed; that I had been on horseback and had worn a soldier's overcoat at the time. This officer was on General Polk's staff. He said both he and the general had seen me and that Polk had said to his men, "There is a Yankee; you may try your marksmanship on him if you wish," but nobody ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
... July 8 and 9 we took 881 prisoners, including 21 officers. When questioned the prisoners gave great praise to our excellent artillery marksmanship, saying: "We did not believe there could be ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various
... said so when down it came. This was too much for the robbers, who dared not measure themselves against such marksmanship. ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume VI. • Various
... Boers confessed to three killed and three or four wounded, and as our man is progressing favourably I don't think their ambush was a great success, especially as they opened fire at a hundred yards or less, a fact which does not speak highly for their marksmanship. ...
— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross
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