Why don't they shoot straight at their targets instead of using a blunderbuss?. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
I always like being able to work the word blunderbuss into a post. From Wordnik.com. [Hoisting The Jolly Roger] Reference
Treasury accused of 'blunderbuss' approach to spending cuts. From Wordnik.com. [Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The Treasury has been accused of taking a "blunderbuss" approach to public spending cuts by. From Wordnik.com. [icNewcastle] Reference
The Centre for Social Justice accuses the government of a "blunderbuss" approach to reducing spending. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
One fellow was in the act of loading an old blunderbuss. From Wordnik.com. [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference
Its strategists seem to believe in a blunderbuss approach. From Wordnik.com. [Values and virtues of lamppost literature] Reference
A moratorium is a blunderbuss that could work in unintended ways. From Wordnik.com. [Katzen Letter On Request For Regulatory Moratorium] Reference
He bought a blunderbuss, two pair of pistols, and a huge house-dog. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
As they came over the side Broadfoot met them, blunderbuss in hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
That probably is more effective than blunderbuss interest-rate cuts. From Wordnik.com. [Fed Takes on More Risk] Reference
That approach is probably more effective than blunderbuss rate cuts. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. central bank's big new role] Reference
Mr. O'Connell also showed me a brass blunderbuss once the property of. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Kittredge had once given the title of "Harding's champion blunderbuss.". From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
Even an old blunderbuss like Hoki no Kami could not shake this influence. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Unity or not, I don't want that human blunderbuss out campaigning for Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Clinton: Are Caucuses More Important Than Primaries?] Reference
"Most people in political science see this is a kind of blunderbuss approach. From Wordnik.com. [Knox] Reference
But a blunderbuss being fired after them, two of the balls ripped the belly of. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
One of them carried a lethal-looking, ancient, distinctly unofficial blunderbuss. From Wordnik.com. [Presumption of Death]
But, if Violante were once married, I should want neither blunderbuss, pistol, nor Pompey. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Arblast, arquebuse, blunderbuss, mark a humbler collateral descent in the same verbal family. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Not, Malone thought uneasily, that the blunderbuss had ever been used for space travel, but. From Wordnik.com. [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference
Being again met by four Mahometans, he threatened them with a blunderbuss, and was left unmolested. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
They don't go in for the kind of overt blunderbuss kind of stuff like the Russians, say, in Georgia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2008] Reference
I'm not reminding you of the self-winding blunderbuss you got in part payment for chopping wood, am I?. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
The legislation of Mr. Gladstone in coalition with the blunderbuss soon put an end to the pleasing delusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
"One blunderbuss, four pistols, and a house-dog called Pompey, who would have made mince-meat of Julius Cæsar!". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference
Surely some poets are ready to escape the art's strange civic silence and enter the blunderbuss of American democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Why Aren't Poets More Politically Active?] Reference
"Clinton tossed back another shot of Crown Royal, raised the blunderbuss high in the air, and shouted," From my cold, dead hands!. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton: My Dad Taught Me How To Shoot] Reference
R.M.C. i.e. Robert Macgregor Campbell, round the touch-hole; the blunderbuss of Hofer, a present to Sir Walter from his friend Sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828] Reference
Then, with a round whirl, he threw three "aces" again, rose from the table and bolted out of the room like a shot from a blunderbuss. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
After this initial shot, everybody considered himself at liberty to let off his rusty old blunderbuss, and there was a constant peppering. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
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