Snipe

(noun.) a gunshot from a concealed location.

(noun.) Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks.

(verb.) hunt or shoot snipe.

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• Boggley Wollah is situated in a fine, lonely, marshy, jungly district, famous for snipe-shooting, and where not unfrequently you may flush a tiger. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• What a snipe you were in that matter, Eustacia! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Hush, pray--pink eyes--fancy dress--little boy--nonsense--ensign 97th-- Honourable Wilmot Snipe--great family--Snipes--very. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Sordo looked away and down the slope at where a cavalryman was sniping from behind a boulder. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It is the work of that fellow they call Snipes, I am sure, said Jane. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• You fellows dig here, said Snipes, indicating a spot beneath the tree. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I'm Cap'n here, though, I'll have you to understand, you swab, shrieked Snipes, with a volley of frightful oaths. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• That part of it we know up to the sailing of the Arrow after the murder of Snipes, and the burial of his body above the treasure chest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• When they had a trench of ample size to bury the chest, Tarrant suggested that they enlarge it and inter Snipes' body on top of the chest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Hush, pray--pink eyes--fancy dress--little boy--nonsense--ensign 97th-- Honourable Wilmot Snipe--great family--Snipes--very. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• If for Snipes, then our ape friend is a friend indeed. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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