" "I vill take some popguns home mit me," was the composed reply.

Then Octavia fired peas out of a little popgun twice, and this was meant as a long farewell to the land.

squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, M80, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun.

It was just as I had begun to carve the beef that I observed my wife suddenly pale, and a telegram from her eyes turned mine in the direction of General Popgun, who sat at her right hand.

My sensations "can better be imagined than described" when I saw General Popgun's fork, untouched by any human hand, dancing a jig on his plate.

But such is the edifice at present, and this its foundation: and the Barrister might as rationally expect to blow up Windsor Castle by discharging a popgun in one of its cellars, as hope to demolish Calvinism by such arguments as his. Ib.

We cannot claim that it was the topmost top; Kimchinjinga might have towered within pistol-shot; popgun-shot was our extremest range of vision, except for one instant, when a kind-hearted sunbeam gave us a vanishing glimpse of a white lake and breadth of forest far in the unknown North toward Canada.

On the other side, the Federalists returned cheer for cheer,looked with true British contempt on the warlike struggles of the restless Frenchman,chuckled over the disasters which befell "his little popgun

The scheme is in the right direction, but as insufficient to overcome the difficulty as a popgun is to breach a fortified city; the only method of effectually enabling the system of colonization to be carried out, isin my humble opinionby setting apart some portion of the unoccupied territory of the Union as a negro colony.

Only he did not care so much for those little popgun affairs that a man carries in his pocket, and with which you couldn't shoot a fellow,a robber, say,without getting the muzzle under his nose.

If at any time I have her Company alone, she is a meer Sermon Popgun, repeating and discharging Texts, Proofs, and Applications so perpetually, that however weary I may go to bed, the Noise in my Head will not let me sleep till towards Morning.

What are kings and their popguns to that wrath of Nature!

Walpole has more reason to pronounce his character detestable; for which opinion he might have quoted Dr. Johnson, who, in reference to an infidel treatise which he bequeathed to Mallet for publication, called him "a scoundrel and a cowarda scoundrel who spent his life in charging a popgun against Christianity, which he had not the courage to let off, but left it to a hungry Scotchman to pull the trigger after he was dead.

5. How to make a popgun.

"Aw, puddown the popgun!