miss fire
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“You reckon she’ll miss fire till he’s well again?”
From The Coming of the Law by Charles Alden Seltzer
"That's just where you'll miss fire," the other rejoined.
From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford
If the truth be told, has not our generation had enough of duels, hair-breadth escapes, post-chaises, and highwaymen, mysterious strangers muffled in great-coats, and pistols which always miss fire when they shouldn’t?
From The Bibliotaph and Other People by Leon H. (Leon Henry) Vincent
Jack and his shipmates, in the meantime, were busily employed in re-sharpening their hangers, and looking to their pistols and ammunition, putting in fresh flints, and seeing that they were not likely to miss fire.
From John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston
The dangers through which he had passed seemed to 53 embolden him, though he knew his plight would indeed be unpleasant should he attempt to shoot bruin and by some cause miss fire.
From Rodney, the Ranger With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield by John Goss
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