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  • One might think, how terrible to cheer a mankilling, no matter the circumstances.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • “Gunny, I will drink to your mankilling ways and my own, and to all the snipers, and we will have ourselves a toot!”

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • One might think, how terrible to cheer a mankilling, no matter the circumstances.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • “Gunny, I will drink to your mankilling ways and my own, and to all the snipers, and we will have ourselves a toot!”

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • One might think, how terrible to cheer a mankilling, no matter the circumstances.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • “Gunny, I will drink to your mankilling ways and my own, and to all the snipers, and we will have ourselves a toot!”

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

  • He is as much yours as any mankilling beast who murders the innocent.

    The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995

  • It was not that a single one of them could have been bought for a mankilling at that or any other price, perhaps, but this was simply a bonus to carry them along toward what they considered an honest duty.

    Way of the Lawless Max Brand 1918

  • Making their camp in the old cabin which Smoke had discovered on his previous visit, they had learned three things: first, heavy nugget gold was carpeted thickly on the lake bottom; next, the gold could be dived for in the shallower portions, but the temperature of the water was mankilling; and, finally, the draining of the lake was too stupendous a task for two men in the shorter half of a short summer.

    Smoke Bellew - The Little Man 1911

  • There was a breed of lawmen like that once, mankilling cops, old timers who weren’t afraid of going to the gun.

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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