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He was such a square-shooting white man, you see, and I was so used to thinking of him as a faithful ally and friend - well, he'd saved my hide twice - that I'd clean overlooked that he had other allegiances in the tangled web of Punjabi politics.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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Once in a while you bump into somebody that's so straight and square-shooting that you'd like to have him for a partner.
Ronicky Doone Max Brand 1918
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'Two bang-up, square-shooting gents!' cried Longstreet warmly.
The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912
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You don't necessarily have a military force coming in knocking houses over, collecting people into the middle-you know a big square-shooting into a crowd until it disperses and runs out of the city, or you know picking out men who are involved in the resistance and executing them the way that we had in 1948.
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