Though the thing wavered considerably, its end was not six feet from Brodie's head, and both hammers were back, while the ancient nervous fingers were playing as with palsy about the triggers.

Immediately on the heels of this boom Andy pulled one of the triggers of his double-barrel, so that the report seemed almost merged in with that of the other weapon.

When one tiny organism decides it is time for the reproductive cycle to begin, it triggers a mechanism through which hundreds of miles of coral reef can change colour within hours.

Half a dozen shots broke out from the spot where the light of the lantern had been suddenly quenched, and we fired twice and shifted ground the moment we pulled the triggers.

She hooked her forefinger around one of the triggers, her eagle eye glanced along the barrels straight at the head of the anti-detective, and, in a clarion voice she sang out "Go!"

" The other is Biglow's familiar verse, beginning "I du believe in Freedom's cause, Ez fur away ez Payris is," and ending: "It's wal enough agin a king To dror resolves an' triggers, But libbaty's a kind o' thing Thet don't agree with niggers.

Indeed, a great many of the cats had forgotten to load their weapons, though they kept snapping away at their triggers as if that did not matter in the slightest.

The knife of a hardly probable assassin seemed a wiser risk than the ready triggers of the Punjaub.

The boat dashed alongside, her brass cannon trained upon the brigantine, and her squad of marines with their fingers upon their triggers ready to open fire.

In a flash they were off their wheels, rifles at their shoulders and fingers on triggers.

Besides the men in sight on the train, two behind the window-blinds of the one passenger coach, and unseen, kept their fingers on the triggers of their repeating carbines.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Quick triggers.

Western triggers.

He saw them lurid and gigantic, pulling the triggers of their rifles or muskets, or working the batteries.

Five triggers were pulled.

"Odd's triggers!"

he would say, "that is, as odd as, or as strange as, triggers.