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"Long shot" Quotes from Famous Books

... was like meat and drink to him. You meet men more or less like Jeremy Ross in any of earth's wild places, although you rarely meet his equal for audacity, irreverence and riotous good-fellowship. He isn't the only Australian by a long shot who upholds Australia by fist and boast and astounding gallantry, yet stays away from home. You couldn't fix Jeremy with concrete; he'd find some means ...

— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy

... Mebbe it ain't good sense. We're after Girty, you remember; and it's a long shot from here—full three ...

— The Spirit of the Border - A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley • Zane Grey

... was in the act of stepping into one of the long boats when a ranger beside Robert raised his rifle and took aim squarely at the Frenchman's heart. It was not a long shot and the ranger would not have missed, but young Lennox at that moment stumbled and fell against him, causing the muzzle of his weapon to be deflected so much that his bullet struck the uncomplaining water. Robert's heart leaped up as he saw the chevalier ...

— The Rulers of the Lakes - A Story of George and Champlain • Joseph A. Altsheler

... Charley Long butts in. Take it from me, Saxon, he ain't no gentleman. Look what he done to Mr. Moody. That was a awful beatin'. An' Mr. Moody only a quiet little man that wouldn't harm a fly. Well, he won't find Billy Roberts a sissy by a long shot." ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... The long shot of the hydro as it had been merged into a series of sectional groupings. In silence they studied it intently, using all their field lore in an attempt to spot what each one was certain must be there somewhere. ...

— Plague Ship • Andre Norton

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