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I have no doubt that if it were up to them, we would be hunting waterfowl with sling-shots and spears.
Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban 2009
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Every sea-chest broke open, every sea-bag turned out, and whiskey bottles, knuckle-dusters, sling-shots, bowie-knives, an 'guns chucked overside by the armful.
CHAPTER XL 2010
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I have no doubt that if it were up to them, we would be hunting waterfowl with sling-shots and spears.
Obama Administration Looks To Reinstate Assault-Weapons Ban 2009
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But even so, workers must guard those factories with sling-shots 24/7 from their government and the previous owners.
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The ten thousand swordsmen in leopard-skin caps were also armed with sling-shots, the stones from which could split a skull at fifty paces.
River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993
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It would force them into the area of enemy ground fire where even the kids fire sling-shots at you.
Thud Ridge Broughton, Jack, 1925- 1969
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Laws should be made to protect birds against the egg hunter, (except for the purpose of study, and then a license should be required), sling-shots should be prohibited, as they already are in many places.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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Bows and arrows, cross-bows sling-shots knives and hatchets were too tame for me.
Black Beaver The Trapper George Edward Lewis
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There'll be less killing of song birds with sling-shots, though of course there's never been much of that done in Green Valley.
Green Valley Katharine Reynolds
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Every sea-chest broke open, every sea-bag turned out, and whiskey bottles, knuckle-dusters, sling-shots, bowie-knives, an 'guns chucked overside by the armful.
Chapter 40 1914
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