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markswoman

n. A woman skilled in shooting at a target.

Usage examples of "markswoman".

Chrysantheme is certainly an adroit markswoman, and we admire her as much as she expected.

The note had been prepared in anticipation of delivery and the markswoman was just the messenger.

She is not so infallible a markswoman, but that she might shoot at a crow and kill a pigeon.

Here Special Agent Smith is, an FBI agent, who put herself through school and is a distinguished expert markswoman and all, and she still has to take the food orders.

She was an excellent markswoman and could use any projectile weapon should the need arise.

Next day, he oversaw the beginnings of her career as a markswoman and watched her tumble down from the boughs of the forest representatives of all the furred and feathered beings it contained.

The Royal Company of Archers would have need of a good markswoman, would they not?

One of the Royal Archers, an outstanding markswoman, slew three of the shotmen attending the mangonels with swift arrows from her longbow.

Although not an expert markswoman, at a range of 30 feet she could hardly miss.

Simla were crack shots and though he had never come across a less likely markswoman than the so correct Mademoiselle Pitiot, Joe was methodical.

These were a gift from the commander to Aitia, whose skill as a markswoman rendered the gift specially pleasing and valuable.

Seems this hotshot markswoman hit him twice during the melee at Rosemary.

At the other end, markswomen were just as surely drawing bead past their own emissaries.

To her left, Maia glimpsed kneeling markswomen, firing at them, while others, armed with trepps and knives, approached cautiously, their flushed faces alive with conflicting emotionswrath versus frightened astonishment.