cockshot

P.M. to my Samoan lesson from Whitmee — I think I shall learn from him, he does not fool me with cockshot rules that are demolished next day, but professes ignorance like a man; the truth is, the grammar has still to be expiscated — dined with

Vailima Letters 2005

Some superstitious fools suppose that they which die of the garget are ridden with the nightmare, and therefore they hang up stones which naturally have holes in them, and must be found unlooked for; as if such a stone were an apt cockshot for the devil to run through and solace himself withal, while the cattle go scot-free and are not molested by him!

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

It’s little wonder she’d be fussy, and he after bringing bankrupt ruin on the roulette man, and the trick-o’-the-loop man, and breaking the nose of the cockshot-man, and winning all in the sports below, racing, lepping, dancing, and the Lord knows what!

Act Three John Millington 1911

Some superstitious fools suppose that they which die of the garget are ridden with the nightmare, and therefore they hang up stones which naturally have holes in them, and must be found unlooked for; as if such a stone were an apt cockshot for the devil to run through and solace himself withal, while the cattle go scotfree and are not molested by him!

Of the Air and Soil and Commodities of This Island. Chapter X. [1577, Book I., Chapter 13; 1587, Book I., Chapter 18 1909

It's little wonder she'd be fussy, and he after bringing bankrupt ruin on the roulette man, and the trick-o'-the-loop man, and breaking the nose of the cockshot-man, and winning all in the sports below, racing, lepping, dancing, and the Lord knows what!

The Playboy of the Western World; a Comedy in Three Acts 1907

They could shy stones if they could do nothing else; and was not that lordly bronze statue a quite irresistible cockshot?

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

Hope the bullpen stops throwing cockshot fastballs to mediocre hitters.

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As to me, I cannot say whether I spoke or not, but I know that my mind and my memory were clearer than I can ever remember them, and I was thinking all the time about the old folk at home, and about Cousin Edie with her saucy, dancing eyes, and de Lissac with his cat's whiskers, and all the doings at West Inch, which had ended by bringing us here on the plains of Belgium as a cockshot for two hundred and fifty cannons.

The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Erskine's craft had done terrible execution without so much as being seen until, when the last of the German Coast Defence ships had gone down with all hands in the Great Nore, off the Nore lighthouse, whence she was shelling Garrison Fort, the _Ithuriel_ had risen above the water for a few moments, and Denis Castellan had taken a cockshot with the three forward guns at a couple of _Flying Fishes_ that were circling over the town and fort and river mouth.

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881