I dried my face on a towel, rejoicing that the derringer blow had left little damage, and opened the door leading to the upper story.
Le Gaire stood sideways, the muzzle of his derringer covering me, his left hand supporting his elbow.
There was a moment's pause, so still I could hear my own breathing, and the slight noise Le Gaire made as he gripped his derringer stock more tightly.
Swift as the strike of a rattler Kao was on his feet, his gown thrown back, one clawing hand jerking a derringer from his silken belt.
He saw thederringer fall and Kao crumple up like a jackknife.
Suddenly he snatched theDerringer from his pocket.
Dyer caught sight of this little manoeuvre, and he goes into his tent and quickly slips a Derringer into his pocket.
Tis a small Derringer pistol, and it is not thrown out of the pocket.
Now he drops it on the ground, and, drawing another from his right side, he continues the attack, but dare not close on the Derringer still in the hands of Meacham.
The Spaniard was halted by the gleam of a derringer in Hough's hand.
He stood with his elbows stiff against his sides, a derringer in each hand.
The little derringer flew, an' Sandy McDermott wuz the mon who picked it up.
She consented somewhat unwillingly, and I saw that she had had a very narrow escape, the heavy bullet from Krause's Derringer having scored her neck pretty deeply and made a wound nearly two inches long.
After drinking heavily all night, he had started off alone in the morning, armed with a brace of revolvers and a Derringer pistol.
See," and she showed us a still bleeding score on the right side of her neck, where a Derringer bullet had cut through the flesh.
These I followed, clutching a small "pop-gun" of theDerringer variety.
Each person had a pet place for keeping his derringer secreted, but handy.
As before mentioned, the searchers on the Chapman had overlooked a small penknife and a derringer concealed on my person.
Moreover, he knew that Ernie had been carrying a small derringer ever since his experience with the hoodlums earlier in the season.
It was not the small derringer he was wont to carry.
She asked Bonacina at the same time if he knew where her derringer was, and he said it was in the trunk.
He had a derringer besides the revolver, however, and would probably have been equal to the emergency if they had gotten his revolver.
During the night, Cook rode with his derringer in his hand and sat on his other pistols that he might have them ready for use at a moment's notice.
Derringer cut into Regine's peal of laughter, and changed its note to a scream of horror.
He was to dine out that evening, and had just finished dressing when his eye fell on a small plated Derringer that lay on the table before him.
The member from Fresno, who had changed his derringer for a speech against the claimant, was among the Unfinished Business.
I congratulated her on the presence of mind she had shown in shooting the Masai with her Derringer pistol, and thereby saving her own life.
Then I remembered the Derringer pistol she carried, and saw that she had fired both barrels of it at him, thereby saving her life.
You might be carrying a derringer or something," he murmured in apology.
He emptied his derringer at the flash and changed position hurriedly.
With his left hand, despite the struggles and protesting roars of the captive, he removed a six-shooter from a shoulder holster and a derringer from a vest pocket.
You must be scared of some one," observed Billy Wingo, as the derringer followed the six-shooter to a place on the table.
He has a Derringer inside his shirt," cried one of the men, "I've seen it.
And all that was left of Aulain was found long after in a gully in the ranges, with a rusted Derringer pistol lying beside some bleaching bones.
Undoubtedly Escobar had the conjunction of the derringer and the Spanish customs in mind.
When, at last, he was seated in the hack, the position of the derringer was awkward, and carefully he shifted it.
With the derringer lying newly in his grasp, his eyes steadily on his father's slightly anxious gaze, Charles asseverated that he would faithfully attend every instruction.
He closed his bag thoughtfully, the derringer on a shelf.
Then he let the body drop, and moved away at a fast walk, the derringer still in his right hand.
He saw Cora suddenly seize Richardson's collar with his left hand, at the same time drawing a derringer with his right.
Calhoun Bennett, quick as a flash, drew a small derringer and fired; and the man went down in a heap.
I saw Caton rushing toward me, his face filled with anxiety, and then Brennan hurled his yet smoking derringer into the dirt at his feet with an oath.
I saw Caton accept the derringer handed him and test it carefully, the long, slim, blue barrel looking deadly enough as he held it up between me and the sky.
Then Moorehouse stooped and picked up the derringer the Major had thrown away.
I fired a second the first, but hisderringer was covering me.
As mysteriously as it had come, the wicked little derringer disappeared.
I thought a derringer was a kind of dish that babies ate gruel out of.
Her closed hand opened and a littlederringer clanked on the floor.
She tried to grab for thederringer on the floor with her left hand.
Little money was found on his person, but he had a large revolver, two Derringer pistols, and a large dirk concealed about him.
Both barrels of thederringer exploded in two quick roars.
Kid Wolf sent Major Stover's derringer flying with a contemptuous kick, just as the fear-crazed fat man pulled the trigger.
With his left hand he scooped up the derringer and swung it up desperately to line the barrel on Kid Wolf's heart.
Snatching open a drawer in one of the gambling tables, Hardy seized a large-bore derringer and whirled it up to shoot.
Then he slyly drew a derringer from under his pillow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "derringer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
