miss fire
Example Sentences
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Oh, shucks! the best gun'll miss fire once in a lifetime.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
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
But the words are quoted in a hundred books and pamphlets, and are used like theological revolvers which never miss fire.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
I never knew that gun to miss fire before.
From Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
Impure gasolene does not make one cylinder miss fire regularly for many revolutions and then explode once or twice with a croupy grunt.
From The Professor's Mystery by Wells Hastings
