Sharpshooter's apparatus

Usage examples of scope.

Presently, amidst the groanings of his spirit, it was revealed to Louis what he should do to wipe out his guilt, and these old dreams merged suddenly into a plan of scope and grandeur befitting a king who had put his soul in jeopardy and brought anathema upon his people.

The more she exerted herself to bend his resolution, and the more scope she gave to the unstudied expression of her artless sentiments, the more inextricably was the magician caught, and the more firm and inexorable was his purpose.

But without approving the extreme doctrine which General Jackson announced with the applause of his party, it is surely not an unreasonable assumption that in the case of a statute which has had no judicial interpretation and whose meaning is not altogether clear, the President is not to be impeached for acting upon his own understanding of its scope and intent:--especially is he not to be impeached when he offers to prove that he was sustained in his opinion by every member of his Cabinet, and offers further to prove by the same honorable witnesses that he took the step in order to subject the statute in dispute to judicial interpretation.

Imagination seized on distortions and ran rampant, until quivering flesh balked at mapping the scope of an ordeal driven amok.

Miss Bloomer, having lost her mother in early life, and her father being devoted to the chase, pedestrianism, and other athletic sports congenial to most country gentlemen, the young lady, his only child, had ample scope for indulging her inclinations.

All the virtues peculiar to American technique are, almost of a certainty, effects and not causes of the scope and homogeneity of the market.

In the collection he parodies some of the naive but popular futurological scenarios, while hypothesizing on ideas whose extravagance extends beyond the scope of contemporary scientific theories.

Magic Brown and Red Nicholson had leveled in on the front gate through their Litton M92 Starlight 3-power scopes.

He peered through the Litton M921 3-power starlight scope mounted on the weapon.

Their arid soil gave little scope to the territorial magnate, who was excluded from politics by the growing absolutism of the dynasty, and the government found it well to employ at a distance forces that might be turbulent at home.

He brought the glass end of the black scope up to his right eye, shut his left, and pointed it down, squaring in on Lo Manto as he ran toward Stalli, firing off four rounds in his direction.

Bertz moved his finger along the edge of the trigger, his eye still at the scope, Lo Manto well within the kill range, the shot sure to penetrate center mass.

I pictured Messinger across the street with a bolt-action sniper rifle with a l0x scope trained so he could blow my head off the minute I stirred.

Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood, She who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together, Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather, Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.

It has full scope under the Ordinances of the Scottish Universities to train women medical students in Clinical Midwifery if it had a sufficient number of beds.