The 55 occurrences of shoot up
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"Somebody's shootin' up the ranch," he volunteered.
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"My, but you're shootin' up!" she exclaimed, admiring the girl's tall, straight figure.
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"Jane had gloom enough without my addin' to it by shootin' up the village," he said.
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what's thet shootin' up behind the ridge?"
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As near as I can make out, this war began with Germany and Austria startin' in to wipe out two little countries; Austria began shootin' up Serbia, and Germany began shootin' up Belgium.
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I ain't long on talk, but I'll agree to carry out any plan you've got, from ditchin' a limited to shootin' up a Methodist Church.
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The bed was pourin' smoke and one little blaze about six inches high was shootin' up to the top.
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No shootin' up the scenery an' the bystanders; no sech slobberin' work; but everythin' carries straight to centers.'
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You simply gets a gun an' goes trackin' 'round in her destinies, an' shootin' up her prospects like you has a personal interest.
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This shootin' up an Injun, cause he's plannin' to wed this female some, is what I shorely calls pronounced attentions.
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What's the matter of us hoppin' over an' shootin' up Red Dog?" says Dan Boggs.
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"'Technical speakin',' says Doc Peets--which Peets, he shorely is the longest-headed sharp I ever sees, an' the galiest--'shootin' up Red Dog, while it's all right as a prop'sition an' highly creditable to Boggs, is not a Thanksgivin' play.
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"The day before, Burke, who's a miner, diggin' an' projectin' 'round over in the Floridas, is in camp layin' in powder an' fuse a whole lot, with which he means to keep on shootin' up the he'pless bosoms of the hills like them locoed miner people does.
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I could see it all, jest the way he put it, the earth a-whirlin' and twirlin', and the fire and flames a-shootin' up to the sky, and rocks and stones and stuff a'b'ilin' and flyin'--" Uncle William's eye dwelt lovingly on the picture.
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"My goodness, that girl's shootin' up!
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And you can tell de Spider," went on Bat with growing ferocity, "dat next time he gits fresh and starts in to shootin' up my dance-joint, I'll bite de head off'n him.
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They was nothing that Jack wouldn't turn to real handy, from shootin' up a town to sticking up a train or a stage.
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"You've been shootin' up, you have, since I set eyes on you."
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"Yes, shootin' up."
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"Is shootin' up a feller a-goin' to undo a wrong like that?
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Thar was a family livin' on the other side o' the Ridge, not a great ways from hyeh, by the name o' Calvern, an' in some way or other--I never heard the rights of it--they took to shootin' up the Beaupoints every chance that come along.
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"Not one word do we-all wolves of Wolfville hear of the divertin' adventures of Silver Phil--shootin' up his gyards an' fetchin' himse'f free--ontil days after.
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These parties is held for divers malefactions from shootin' up a Greaser dance-hall to stealin' a cow over on the Honeymoon.
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It was the boldest piece of cheek I ever heard tell of--those two gunmen goin' into Tolleson's and shootin' up my riders.
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He's lost his hat, and he's swapped cayuses with somebody--a measly old bench--and he's shootin' up the town t' beat hell!"
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And he _is_ shootin' up the town.
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"He not only saves my property without havin' to fight for it--and that was a blamed good play itself, for I don't want you boys shootin' up anybody even in self-defense--but he disarms Brad's plug-uglies, humiliates them, makes them plumb sick of the job, and at the same time wipes out Steelman's location lock, stock, and barrel.
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Shootin' up her outfit an' dumpin' her into a snowdrift up on Labrador's mighty hard sort of courtin'.
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"That's jest the difference between _one_ fella doin' what he thinks is right and a _bunch_ of fellas shootin' up themselves.
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Es Sam Hayes said, if we shoot, we 'll be a-shootin' up Gulpin County.
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He says there 's Mrs. Allen firin' Polly at him when he goes over there for his dinner, 'n' the minister tellin' him every Sunday 'n' prayer-meetin' how 'Liza Em'ly is shootin' up.
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"Say, Pete, what-cher bin doin'?" began Buck, as the vehicle gathered way, "shootin' up ther town?"
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We had no _business_ shootin' up that town."
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"D'ye see that long streak of light shootin' up into the sky from behind that bank of cloud, sir?" responded the man.
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He nicked Pete Barras in the arm, an' has otherwise feloniously disturbed the peace of Timber City to a extent it'll cost him a hundred dollars' fine besides damages fer shootin' up, an' causin' to git shot up, the Red Front saloon."
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Even if it's shootin' up his old pals an' grabbin' off the reward."
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"You never seen me shootin' up no towns or raisin' hell when I was lit up.
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Naterally the scared oaks didn't take no interest in shootin' up, when they thought they was so soon t' be eaten, so they got the habit of crouchin' low an' dependin' on the poplars fur information.
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"Shootin' up Tcherekin," he said tersely, and Malinkoff's eyebrows rose.
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"You wouldn't want me shootin' up some o' yore friends, would you?
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But they's to be no killin', an' no mo' shootin' up houses whar they is women and chil'en.
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"A lot of Greasers rode in just now, started shootin' up promiscus like, and in the excitement Del Pinzo and his crowd managed to get out of the calaboose!
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A slender spiral of flame shootin' up through the shadows, and on Dreamland tower a rosy blush seemed to grow on its whiteness.
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That temperator wus down ther' blazin' drunk an' shootin' up the town.
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"They're chasin' Curly to lynch him for shootin' up the Kid."
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They need shootin' up like vermin, an'--" "You're goin' to do it?" inquired Sandy sarcastically.
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I'll bet you forty dollars to the price of a drink that old Bill Johnson has been shootin' up their camps.
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"I opened my eyes and here was ol' Jim Burnett with that double-barrel shotgun throwed down on me, I knew there was no use tryin' to get the play away from him, either; only a day or two before that he'd stuck up Johnny Harker and fined him a bunch of three-year-old steers for shootin' up the town.
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They'll get that out o' hand with their own glory, they'll get shootin' up creation in the name of religion by way o' pastime, and robbin' the stages an' smugglin' liquor fer the fun o' gettin' around this blamed church an' braggin' of it to the parson.
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He's wanted across the border fer shootin' up a bank manager, and gettin' off with the cash.
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"Guess it don't pay shootin' up red coats," he said, with a rough laugh.
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"Like dis is it--de high marks shootin' up so, and the long one running out scrigly scrawley like dis one; 'pears 's if I'd seen 'em afore, but 'twasn't in a bounden book, golly knows."
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Don't you know them rustlers is shootin' up the country ever' which way all around here?
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"I was low-down enough to believe what they told me about Macdonald shootin' up Chance Dalton.