pistol

I could tell right then she was like a pistol.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

They didn’t locate any weapons, but they did find a pair of detached pistol magazines.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

It was fragments from the pistol butt which enabled police to identify it as a Luger P06.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Los Angeles police officers shot at a man wielding a water pistol Monday in South Park, the department said in a news release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Then brothers John and William Garrett grabbed blankets and a pistol and spent the night in the corn house, watching the tobacco barn and waiting, listening for suspicious sounds in the night.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

When they finally returned, Roebuck realized he was missing four pistols from his safe.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

He was later charged in a military court with possession of pistols and attempting to purchase weapons abroad - accusations which he denies.

From BBC ● May 12, 2026

When authorities searched Michael Abatti’s properties, they took possession of more than three dozen firearms including more than two dozen rifles, as well as shotguns, pistols and revolvers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

Unlike military pistols that could fire up to six rounds before reloading, the Deringer could be fired just once.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kearney looked from one to the other, fairly pistolling his scrutiny.

From Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie

"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