Point-blank range


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the extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.


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As the mob charged past the corner, it had been swept, at right angles andpoint-blank range, by the machine-guns drawn up on the cross street.
I watched him coming with a smile which, as he got intopoint-blank range, took effect and froze his very whiskers.
"Connor managed to stab Frye in the stomach before Frye shot him frompoint-blank range," said Mr Denison.
Emad Abu Shamsiya, a Palestinian human rights worker, recorded a video footage of an Israeli soldier, identified as Elor Azraya, shooting al-Sharif in the head atpoint-blank range in plain view of the medical team after he had already been shot at least once and left motionless on the ground.
London: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head atpoint-blank range by Taliban for advocating girls' education, has become a millionaire by signing a deal for around USD 3 million to publish her memoir.
Anuj Bidve, 23, was gunned down atpoint-blank range as he walked with friends near their hotel in Salford, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of Monday.
According to Reuters, police said the gunmen tracked the soldiers and shot them with pistols atpoint-blank range while they were on foot patrol late on Thursday, providing security at the market.
Patch was left bleeding and in agony when a pellet fired atpoint-blank range destroyed his left eye and became lodged in his head on Sunday.
Juan Robles, 30, was hit atpoint-blank range as he played the game during a night of drinking.
Summary: Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani spokesman for the Iranian consulate atpoint-blank range Thursday as he set off for work in the northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.
A few minutes later Detective Constable Len Jakeman was also shot in the stomach atpoint-blank range by the robbers after he and a colleague had rammed the robbers' car and became involved in a struggle.

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