Citizens reminded each other, that when, during the rebellion, a certain PENDRAGON of the celebrated Southern Confederacy met a former religious chattel of his confronting him with a bayonet in the loyal ranks, and immediately afterwards felt a cold, tickling sensation under one of his ribs, he drew a pistol upon the member of the injured race, who subsequently died in Ohio of fever and ague.

When the waves divided us, and our voices could no longer reach each other, we made signals by firing pistols and carbines.

It was the first time I had ever seen men carrying pistols and knives, and they looked like a very dangerous crowd.

And they walked along, and after a while they came to the wood, and it was now about six o'clock, and it was very dark, and just then nine robbers jumped out from behind the trees, and they took a pistol and shot Rachel's father, and the child fainted.

Never hold a pistol to a man unless you mean to shoot.

He pointed his own pistol at the figure, there were three simultaneous reports, and the oncoming figure fell with a hoarse cry of pain.

As they rushed past us, not more than thirty yards distant, Alexis raised his pistol, fired and killed a buffalo cow.

He wheeled about and discharged his pistol, sending a bullet through the first Prussian's breast, stretching him dead upon the spot.

"There is no need to cock that pistol," I said, in a tone which I hoped sounded more confident than my state of mind.

Then I took my bearings as well as I could, re-loaded my pistols, and marched into the woods, keeping to the course of the little river.

She hesitated a moment; then she came in, and seeing the pistol, a gasp escaped her.

As the effect of that wore off he pulled out a pistol.

Renault was that general, who, at Mascara, had given his pistols to Charras.

CHAPTER XVI THE GOLD AND THE PIRATES Certain that Long Jim was dead, I turned on Petrak and presented my pistol at him.

Marveling greatly at his presence here at this hour, I tiptoed around him, got Long's pistols, and took them out to him.

Upon this, seeing his prey like to get away from him, Captain Morgan snatched a pistol out of his sling, and resting it for an instant across his arm, fired at the flying Spaniard, and that with so true an aim that, though the street was now full of people, the other went tumbling over and over all of a heap in the kennel, where he lay, after a twitch or two, as still as a log.

Knowing that discipline would be at an end if this mutiny was not quelled, and that our lives depended on vigorously upholding authority, I seized a double-barrelled pistol and darted out with such a savage aspect as to put them to precipitate flight.

Still chuckling to himself, he dropped my pistols into his shirt bosom.

And then, when that is finished Brutus shall bring two other pistols, and Lawton and I shall draw again.

Give us five minutes; more if you can!" He laid the block on a cracker-box, and, keeping pistol and eye still on the thief, took his watch in his left hand, as the Boy shot through the door.

It was proved that the prisoner had bought the pistol on the Saturday night, that he was unused to firearms, for he had to ask the man who sold it to explain the mode of using it.

Without a word the visitor produced a Browning pistol and fired point blank at the physician, putting three bullets in his body.

He held off the mob until the very last moment, and, instead of seeking refuge in the refrigerator after the "paraders" had been dispersed, he ran out of the back door, reloading his pistol as he went.

A sudden suspicion seized me, and I lifted my pistol and fired.

Alexis at first preferred to use his pistol instead of a gun.