being a pistol
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Well, anyway, a slingshot's a long way from being a pistol.
From The Radio Boys in the Thousand Islands by Duffield, J. W.
A very singular piece of arms, being a pistol in a shield, so contrived as to fire the pistol, and cover the body at the same time, with the shield.
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
