"Let fly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... captured, the Tripolitans had loaded all her cannon so as to be ready to fire upon any vessel that might approach her. As the fire spread over her hull, the time came when the "Philadelphia" could do something for herself; and when the guns were hot enough, she let fly a broadside into the town, and then another one among the shipping. How much damage she did, we do not know; but the soul of the Bashaw ceased to swell as he heard the roar of her last broadsides, and beheld her burning fragments scattered over ...
— Stories of New Jersey • Frank Richard Stockton
... distant I raised my rifle and let fly at one of the exposed heads. My guide told me that the hippopotamus was shot and killed. In a few minutes another head appeared above the surface of the water and again taking aim I fired with the same result. The guide, who was a subject of the Chief N'Galiama, sprang upon a big boulder ...
— The Upward Path - A Reader For Colored Children • Various
... be always on hand and stay the long hours through, whereas this, that, and the other inquisitor could absent himself and rest up from his fatigues when he got worn out. And yet she showed no wear, no weariness, and but seldom let fly her temper. As a rule she put her day through calm, alert, patient, fencing with those veteran masters of scholarly sword-play and coming ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... in sorrow and partly in anger, but she let fly a few more Parthian arrows over her shoulder ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... And then let fly at his face and his chest Till I had to hold you down, While he took off his cap and his gloves and his coat, And his bag and ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various
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