Then they took him out and tied him to a hook in the wall, and the goat ran off the stage, and the monkeys ran to one side, and one of them pulled out a little revolver, pointed it at the dog, fired, and he dropped down as if he was dead.

I had brought with me from London a loaded revolver, warned by the Foreign Secretary that to do so would be a wise precaution; and I was ready to make use of it if necessary.

Of course they started to make objections, and the air was filled with various excited exclamations; but Frank proved as firm as adamant, and showed the automatic revolver sticking from his pocket all the while, a fact that kept the two men from venturing to do more than shout.

The answer came like the click of a cocked revolver.

Danforth, the private secretary, roused from his nap in the wicker chair, was able to produce a serviceable revolver.

To accustom a soldier to the use of the self-cocking mechanism, and also to strengthen and develop the muscles of the hand, a few minutes practice daily in holding the unloaded revolver on a mark and snapping it, using the self-cocking mechanism, is recommended.

I gathered his meaning right away, even though he uttered only guttural German and that at the top of his voice; a pointed revolver speaks with a tongue which is understood by all peoples.

He gave no sign of knowing that he had a revolver strapped to his hip ready for action.

hard"but I'll be damned, Anthony, if I'll let you stay here in Long Island wasting your time riding the wildest horses you can get and practising with an infernal revolver.

All this was done in a shorter time than it takes to tell it; and then, with our extra box of ammunition and three or four extra revolvers, which we always carried along with us, we crept under the wagon and were fully prepared to give our visitors the warmest kind of a reception.

A nightmare weakness was in his knees so that he could hardly reel to his feet and he moved with outstretched hands towards the door until his toe clicked against his fallen revolver.

The familiar revolver I rejected utterly.

He went to his suit case and brought out his favorite revolver.

Wild Bill always carried two handsome ivory-handled revolvers of the large size; he was never seen without them....

I got little sleep and no rest; I went about with a revolver handy all day, and jumped every time I heard a sound.

I backed up into a corner of the hotel piazza, laid my hand on an imaginary revolver, threatening to shoot, and was defending myself with a whirling chair, when the sheriff's posse rushed to my deliverance in the nick of time, and W was forced to hand over my money.

A cheap, inaccurate revolver was found beside him.

*** A Chicago woman has been charged with attempting to shoot her husband with a jewelled and gold-handled revolver.

At once Hetty confronted them with leveled revolver and the sight caused them to hesitate.

He held out his hand with a small silver-mounted revolver lying in the palm of it.

"If we fail?" said I. He drew a neat little revolver from his pocket, placed it for a moment against his ear, and repocketed it.

Gething's square brown hand went to his breeches pocket, settled on something that was cold as ice and drew it outthe revolver.

" With these words, and before any of the boys could stop him, he rose to his feet and sent a bullet from his ponderous revolver flying in the direction of the fleeing motor boat.

Had I fixed an earlier date for my exploit the end of it would most probably have beena battered second-lieutenant's cap and a rusty revolver hanging up in the ingle-nook at Herr Someone-or-other's country home in East Prussia.

The weapon was a large-sized revolver.