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“Lightly pull trigger until cheese extrudes from tip,” read the instructions, and you can’t help but think: “My God, what have we done?”

From The Guardian • May 17, 2017

Level at the cliff yonder, but let no man pull trigger!

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Farnol, Jeffery

The winter was their busy time, When all was snow and frost and rime, It paid best then to pull trigger, For then furs were better thicker.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James

I was about to pull trigger a second time, when suddenly there darted between me and the charging brute a human form—Umkopo.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)

The hunter had taken aim, and was about to pull trigger, when the canoe commenced rocking about, as if tossed upon a stormy sea!

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne




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