"Draw a bead on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... without intention, though they soon found that thereby they had bettered themselves. There was one young Bavarian officer who made this miscalculation. I saw him moving near our wire in the early dawn. I called to some men to draw a bead on him but he came toward us and at the last with a run jumped down into our trench. "Good morning!" I said to him, looking down my automatic, and you never saw such a crestfallen countenance in your life. It must have been some shock, expecting to join his own ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett
... "Draw a bead on that gazabo on shore," Kent interrupted her faint faring up of sentiment toward the man she had once loved and ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower
... night," he shouted hoarsely, "but it won't do any good. Don't you come too close, Bill Jeffries, or I might draw a bead on you. We have more than one old score to settle. As for getting me out of here, you and ten like you can't do it. I have plenty of ammunition and plenty to eat, and this place will hold me as long as I want to stay. You can't take me inside of a week. I have four prisoners ...
— Canoe Boys and Campfires - Adventures on Winding Waters • William Murray Graydon
... through the circle of my peep sight, but when I moved the bead of the front sight upon him it almost covered him up. The distance was far—more than a thousand yards—over half a mile—we calculated afterward. But I tried to draw a bead on the big, wagging brown shape and fired till my rifle ...
— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey |
