 | William Thomas Stead - 1901 - 742 pages
...blood where his muzzle hit the ground ; but he recovered himself, and made two or duet jumps onwards, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into...and over like a shot rabbit. Each of my first three bulléis had inflicted a mortal wound. It is not surprising that to a man accustomed to such hairbreadth... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1893 - 318 pages
...trigger; and through the hanging smoke the first thing I saw was his paw as he made a vicious side blow as me. The rush of his charge carried him past. As he...the animal being in excellent trim, and unusually bright-colored. Unfortunately, in packing it out I lost the skull, and had to supply its place with... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1893 - 550 pages
...blood where his muzzle hit the ground; but he recovered himself and made two or three jumps onwards, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into...the animal being in excellent trim, and unusually bright-colored. Unfortunately, in packing it out I lost the skull, and had to supply its place with... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1900 - 266 pages
...blood where his muzzle hit the ground ; but he recovered himself and made two or three jumps onwards, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into...the animal being in excellent trim, and unusually bright-colored. Unfortunately, in packing it out I lost the skull, and had to supply its place with... | |
 | Charles Eugene Banks, Le Roy Armstrong - 1901 - 480 pages
...jumps onward, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into the magazine, my rifle holding but four, all of which I had fired. Then he tried to pull...over and over like a shot rabbit. Each of my first two bullets had inflicted a mortal wound." It has all the thrill of an excerpt from the journal of... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pages
...he tried to pull up ; but as he did so, his muscles seemed suddenly to give way, his head dropped, and he rolled over and over like a shot rabbit. Each...first three bullets had inflicted a mortal wound." The reason why he is so successful in killing game, is he is as cool in firing at a beast as in target... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 1904 - 322 pages
...fired. Then he tried to pull up, but as he did so his muscles seemed sudio6 Hunting the Grisly denly to give way, his head drooped, and he rolled over...the animal being in excellent trim, and unusually bright-colored. Unfortunately, in packing it out I lost the skull, and had to supply its place with... | |
 | Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 540 pages
...blood where his muzzle hit the ground; but he recovered himself, and made two or three jumps onwards, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into...first three bullets had inflicted a mortal wound." That was hunting of the kind that calls for a stout heart. When I think of it, there comes to me by... | |
 | Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 544 pages
...blood where his muzzle hit the ground; but he recovered himself, and made two or three jumps onwards, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into...first three bullets had inflicted a mortal wound." That was hunting of the kind that calls for a stout heart. When I think of it, there comes to me by... | |
 | Jacob August Riis - 1904 - 526 pages
...two or three jumps onwards, while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into the magazine—my rifle holding only four, all of which I had fired....first three bullets had inflicted a mortal wound." That was hunting of the kind that calls for a stout heart. When I think of it, there comes to me by... | |
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... while I hurriedly jammed a couple of cartridges into the magazine, my rifle holding only four, all of which I had fired. Then he tried to pull up, but as he did so his muscles seemed suddenly to give way, his head drooped, and he rolled over and over... 
