44 adjectives to describe pistol

I felt in my belt for my loaded pistols.

Somebody had opened fire with an automatic pistol....

He placed his foot on the little pistol and faced De Chauxville with glaring eyes.

Taking a double-barreled pistol which I had recently bought, I went to the head of the stairs, cocked the weapon, and waited for the ruffian to come up, determined, that the moment he set foot on the steps I would kill him.

" The sight of the cocked pistol brought the old man to his senses, and, in a deprecating tone, he muttered: "Don't kill me, sir, don't, I'll tell you all.

I could almost imagine I caught the gleam of silver-butted horse pistols and cutlasses at his waist.

And then some frolic god, en route from homicide by means of an unloaded pistol in Chicago for the demolishment of a likely ship off Palos, with the coöperancy of a defective pistonrod, stayed in his flight to bring Joe Parkinson to Lichfield.

"But we agreed to make a strike at the College and to drop a useless Browning pistol where it would be found, and in various other ways to be unrestful.

The hardware man at once opened it, displaying a pair of old-fashioned dueling pistols, with long barrels and pearl handles.

The innkeeper pressed him to take a pair of holster pistols; saying, "he might find them handy;" and after a great deal of persuasion, he agreed to take one, the publican first loading and charging it with ball.

What a gay velvet sling, hung with three silver-mounted pistols!

"Revolvers and lethal pistols!"

" The threat was backed with an oath, and he drew from his coat pocket the long holster pistol he was wont to carry, and covered his man cleverly.

Was it the barrel of that infernal pistol you shoved into my ribs just now?" "I just touched you with it," admitted the other.

Ay, you forget the head-battering bludgeon, the instantaneous pistol, or the cunning knife; none of all which would a man with a spark of courage in him use against an unarmed, defenceless traveller.

On another occasion he incurred the displeasure of the governor, General Hall, by fighting a duelfortunately as harmless as that of Moore and Jeffrey 'When Little's leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by,' as Byron says.

A leveled pistol enforced his command to stop, and the next moment he slid down a rope and into the boat.

There was a brief panic, and another attempt to push the animals, which Thurstane checked with levelled pistol.

I was especially fond of the short gun or pistol, not the bell-mouthed thing which shot a handful of slugs, and was as little precise in its aim as a hailstorm, but the light foreign pistol which, shot as true as a musket.

Many a time he had climbed up the bare wall of the banqueting-hall to where a breach revealed a secret staircase built between the walls, and followed the staircase to a long straight passage, and down another staircase, in the hope of finding matchlock pistols.

I most reluctantly took the bridle in my left hand, my revolver in my right, stood directly in front of the poor, unsuspecting, innocent creature with the murderous pistol close to, and a little above a line extending from eye to eye, and fired.

Yet, here I am, with a perfectly official pistol, loaded with official cartridges, under unofficial orders to shoot you at the first sign of disobedience.

This he had at once, the alarm being given, sent off to a farm a mile distant from the hall, and with it its saddle, bridle, and his arms, a brace of rare pistols, breast and back pieces, a steel cap with plumes, and his sword.

I felt myself suspected as though I were a rascal buying pistols to commit a murder.

"You remembermy pistol isn't loaded!" "Excuse me.

44 adjectives to describe  pistol