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Example sentences for "would shoot"

  • My tyrant, in a great rage, brought a musquet out of the cabin, and loaded it before me and the crew, and swore that he would shoot me if I cried any more.

  • He went away, however, swearing; and threatened that whenever he caught me on shore he would shoot me, and pay for me afterwards.

  • I said, if they would not take me on to the next camping-place I would shoot them, and I let off my revolver in the air, but still the old native refused to take up the burden, and told the other people not to carry me.

  • Brou having told them I would shoot if they tried to molest me.

  • I ran down among some houses where my servants were talking trying to persuade the people to give me some dried grass, and said if they did not give me some I would shoot them.

  • His lordship at the same time desired that he would not suffer him to be seized, and declared, that if any one should attempt it, he would shoot him.

  • I leaped into the road; and he followed after, swearing he would shoot me if I didn't stop.

  • The negro made some reply which the master construed into insolence, and in a great rage he swore if he did not come to him immediately he would shoot him.

  • Indeed, I would shoot him as quick as I would a squirrel if I could see him.

  • My wife and seven children belong to another man who said he would shoot my brains out if I dared to come on his plantation.

  • This talk seemed to exasperate him more than ever, and regaining his revolver, he swore that he would shoot the d--d Yankee any way.

  • The truth is, he had told his girl when he left home, that he would shoot a Yankee before he returned, and was too cowardly to attempt to kill one who was armed.

  • He insisted that I start on, but I told him plainly that I would not walk a step, that I had just about as leave he would shoot me right there as to take me back into prison.

  • Except for the sin of it I wish he would shoot me, for then I should have done with all this pain.

  • That I had abused his confidence and violated his hospitality; that he would shoot me if I came near his girl.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    crying out; last expedition; reflect upon; would agree; would always; would endeavour; would fain; would guess; would haue; would here; would know; would lead; would live; would look; would marry; would otherwise; would probably; would receive; would say; would scarcely; would see; would seem; would speak; would submit; would suffice; wouldst thou