 | 1858 - Počet stránok 256
...If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barn-door, about my dimensions; and if you hit that, send me word, and I shall acknowledge that, had I been in the same place, you might have also hit mo. THE PERIL OF PRAISE. What an admirable discourse... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1859 - Počet stránok 690
...advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn-door, about my dimensions. If you hit that, send me word,...acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me. JoHN FARRAGO, Late Captain, Penn. Militia. MAJOR VALENTINE JACEO, US Army.'' The... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - 1867 - Počet stránok 674
...advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn-door, about my dimensions. If you hit that, send me word,...acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me. JOHN FARRAGO, Late Captain, Penn. Militia. MAJOR VALENTINE JACKO, US Army.'1'' The... | |
 | 1886 - Počet stránok 524
...That being the case, I think it most advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn door, about my dimensions. If you hit that, send mo word, and I shall acknowledge that if I had been in the same place you might also have hit me."... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson Young - 1892 - Počet stránok 376
...distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, say a tree or any thing about my size, and if you hit that send me word and I shall acknowledge that if I had been there you might have hit me." DOUBLE-HANDED JUSTICE. At one of our Indian villages where the old habits... | |
 | Carl Holliday - 1912 - Počet stránok 334
...That being the case, I think it most advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barn door about my dimensions....acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me.' " Teague 0 'Eegan, however, was not possessed of such a supply of common-sense.... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1926 - Počet stránok 406
...being the case, I think it most advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try "your pistols, take some object, a tree, or a barn door, about my...acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me.1 /f "JOHN FARRAGO, "Late Captain, Penn. Militia. "MAJOR VALENTINE JACKO, US Army."... | |
 | Steven Watts - 1989 - Počet stránok 412
...other is, lest you should hurt me. . . . If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or barn door about my dimensions. If you hit that, send...acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me. This use of wit either to vent the steam of anger or to express it indirectly also... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - Počet stránok 276
...That being the case, I think it most advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barn door about my dimensions....acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me. 53 And so it goes throughout each chapter and in every niche of America the two travelers... | |
 | Jack Kelly - 2009 - Počet stránok 274
...having his hero answer a challenge by a British officer this way: "If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barn door about my dimensions....acknowledge that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me." Even full-scale battles could be marked by something of the formality of the dueling... | |
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If you want to try your pistols, take some object, a tree or a barn door, about my dimensions. If you hit that, send me word, and I shall acknowledge that if I had been in the same place you might also have hit me. 
