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"Barn door" Quotes from Famous Books

... be found on a tag attached to the gun. If not, you can easily get the pattern yourself. The usual distance for targeting a new gun is thirty yards, and the standard circle is thirty inches. Make a circle on the barn door with a piece of chalk and string fifteen inches long. First drive a nail into the wood and fasten the string to it with the chalk on the loose end. Then describe and measure ninety feet from the target. Fire as nearly ...

— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller

... of the novelty of the scene had vanished, I descended from my perch to explore this sleepy hollow: the barn door hung suspended on a single hinge, like a bird with but one unbroken wing to soar upon. The swallows twittered their love-songs under the eaves; chipmunks scolded my intrusion and threw nuts at my head from the beams; a lone, lorn hen proclaimed her triumph over a new laid ...

— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss

... very unpleasant for Mr. Spruggins, And when the wind flung him hard against his own front door It was a relief, Although the breath was quite knocked out of him. The gas-lamp in front of the house flared up, And the keyhole was as big as a barn door; The gas-lamp flickered away to a sputtering blue star, And the keyhole went out with it. Such a stabbing, and jabbing, And sticking, and picking, And poking, and pushing, and prying With that key; And there ...

— Men, Women and Ghosts • Amy Lowell

... through the barn door and scurried into an empty stall, where he jumped into the manger and cowered down in the hay that half ...

— The Tale of Old Dog Spot • Arthur Scott Bailey

... barn door closed behind her, a sigh of relief, half stifled through fear of detection, ...

— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow

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