"Firing off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a roll of paper for a telescope, and imagines that he is looking at the heavens. The patient near him has drawn on the wall the firing off a bomb, and a ship moored in the distance. Ireland, in his notes on "Hogarth," says it was to ridicule Whiston's project for the discovery of the longitude, which then attracted attention, and had sent some people crazy. Then there is a mad musician with his music-book on his head; ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke
... said Mr. Davies deferentially, "like as if I heard some one a-firing off at intervals, so ...
— This is "Part II" of Soldiers Three, we don't have "Part I" • Rudyard Kipling
... with the new power of firearms, would hear no warning. They did not understand his words and refused to heed Radisson's interpretation. Beating paddles on their canoes and firing off guns, they shouted derisively that the man was "a dog and a hen." All the same, they did not land to encamp that night, but slept in midstream, with their boats tied to the rushes or on the lee side of floating trees. The French lost heart. If this were ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut
... went over to spy upon the cow-punchers in their new camp, he found them so drunk that they could not stand, and before he crept away at dusk two of them were sleeping like gorged snakes and the third was firing off his revolver at random, which diversion had not a little to do ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford
... field-hands, men, women, and children, waving sticks, blowing horns, and firing off guns, to frighten the invaders away. Fires are lighted by night to scare them, for the birds travel both night and day. The Bobolinks do not stop for all this noise, though of course a great many are shot, ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
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