pistol
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There he collected a semi-automatic pistol, a revolver and some ammunition.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
A French patrol officer at the back of the boat was seen pointing a pistol towards the sea.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
On display here is a circa 1770 officer’s holster pistol, owned by Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Toni McBride fashioned herself as a quick shot with a pistol in numerous videos, including some with celebrities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
She was plumb outta bullets and the click-click-click of the dry-firing pistol echoed ’gainst the trees ’round the cabin.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Starmer, speaking to British reporters on his flight home, said the pistols were inscribed with the name of each leader and accompanied by a box of ammunition.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
In Amarillo, a “2nd Amendment Cowboy” with a pair of big pistols at his feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
He was carrying 743 rounds of ammunition and four handguns – two 9mm Browning semi-automatic pistols and two Smith & Wesson .357 magnum revolvers.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
Today, its pistols, shotguns and other weaponry are used by militaries and hobbyists around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Twin blaster pistols were slung low on her hips in quickdraw holsters, and there was a long, curved elvish sword in a scabbard across her back.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
The movie was Red River, a western version of Mutiny on the Bounty with the range as the ocean and John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh.
From Time Magazine Archive
While scurrying water rats squeaked from the walls, pistoled their water, and ran for more.
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
They suddenly left the bridge, to disappear in the forecastle for a few moments, then to reappear—each man belted and pistoled, and one bringing an outfit to Forsythe on the bridge.
From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson
We have counted eighteen hundred odd From Benavente hither, pistoled thus.
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
Brown as a coffee-berry, rugged, pistoled, spurred, wary, indefeasible, I saw my old friend, Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton, stumble, with jingling rowels, into a chair in the marshal's outer office.
From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
This pistoling of Colonel Washington by the British commander skimmed a little of the cream from our great and glorious victory.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
That would ha’ been flat mutiny; and remember his name was on the ship’s books as first officer, and he might have pistolled us every one and had the law on his side.
From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward
No body of rough, uncouth, pistolled ruffians, such as Bret Harte depicts the miners, would have formed such a group of benevolent, far-reaching and comprehensive laws.
From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Thomas Dykes Beasley
"What are you pistolling, Larry?" said a familiar voice close by his elbow, and he saw his master, accompanied by a handsome young man in a cloak.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"I doubt much whether it was quite wise of you, assuming that you expected to find me here, to have come without that pistolling retinue with which you provided yourself last time."
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
Kearney looked from one to the other, fairly pistolling his scrutiny.
From Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie
Even those who did not quarrel with his views sometimes, before Sir George Trevelyan's book, disliked and regretted what have been called his "pistolling ways"—the positive, hectoring "hold-your-tongue" sort of tone which dominated his productions.
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
Now when Macaulay advances with his hectoring sentences and his rough pistolling ways, we feel all the time that his pulse is as steady as that of the most practised duellist who ever ate fire.
From Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay by John Morley
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