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Example sentences for "loaded pistol"

  • There would be as much temerity in facing a bottle of brandy as the barrel of a loaded pistol.

  • You pretend there is as much danger in facing a bottle of brandy as a loaded pistol; let us each take a full bottle, and see who will be the first to cry quarter.

  • Graub, "I have no loaded pistol,--and I will swear Leroy is equally unarmed!

  • Her husband was awoke instantly by her cries, and he had just time to leap from his bed and proceed in his shirt to the mantelpiece, on which he constantly kept a loaded pistol, before the four villains entered the chamber.

  • I had a loaded pistol in each pocket and a rug over me, and I sat in the corner pretending to be asleep.

  • I will carry a loaded pistol in each pocket; I will not sleep in an hotel from the time I start till I have handed the bills to Garibaldi, and will take care always to get into a carriage with several other passengers.

  • That habit of carrying a loaded pistol in your pocket has proved a valuable one, and I should advise you to continue it so long as you are here.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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