shooting-match

I'd been done with the whole shooting-match, squaws and all, if you hadn't broke me off.

CHAPTER 28 2010

Until the 1840s, they had been virtually the western and south-western limits of the U.S.A.; then came the war with Mexico, and the Yankees won the whole shooting-match that they own today.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Until the 1840s, they had been virtually the western and south-western limits of the U.S.A.; then came the war with Mexico, and the Yankees won the whole shooting-match that they own today.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Until the 1840s, they had been virtually the western and south-western limits of the U.S.A.; then came the war with Mexico, and the Yankees won the whole shooting-match that they own today.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

And the whole shooting-match, she confided, bought on a sort of underground international black market.

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

So he's gone, dog, cats, and the whole shooting-match.

Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

And I know a fellow who thought he was in the heart of Africa watching the savage beasts come down to a waterhole to drink, and then getting up in the morning to discover the whole shooting-match had taken up quarters in his back yard.

Chums of the Camp Fire Lawrence J. Leslie

"Once upon a time," the great unknown being engaged in a shooting-match near his dwelling, it came to pass that all the gun-wadding was spent, so that he was obliged to fetch _paper_ instead.

Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 Various

When a folk-tribunal is called to decide which brother most deserves the princess and is unable to agree, the king proposes another test, -- a shooting-match.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

Hence, thoughtless people, when forced to act in an affair of importance, blunder through it with no more chance of doing as they should than one would have of hitting a small or distant mark at a shooting-match, if previous practice had not given the power of hitting objects that are large and near.

The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler