I cannot help thinking of the flappers in Swift's Laputa, only they gave one a hint when to speak and another a hint to listen, whereas the popgun says unmistakably, "Shut up!
I must own that I have sometimes wished we had the popgun back, for it answered all the purpose of "the previous question" in a deliberative assembly.
But you need not think I am going to tell you every time his popgun goes off, making a Selah of him whenever I want to change the subject.
How the little monkey had learned to time his interruptions I do not know, but I have observed more than once before this, that the popgun would go off just at the moment when some one of the company was getting too energetic or prolix.
I ought to have told the reader before this that I found, as I suspected, that our innocent-looking Scheherezade was at the bottom of the popgun business.
What in the world can have become of That Boy and hispopgun while all this somewhat extended sermonizing was going on?
Uncle Lucky, and he peeked around the corner of the porch while Billy Bunny took his popgun out of his knapsack so as to be ready in case it was a burglar.
And the fretful porcupine laughed and this made Billy Bunny very angry, and he took his popgun out of his knapsack and hit the porcupine on the end of the nose with the cork bullet, and this made the prickly animal run away.
Oh, don't let him swallow me," cried the little rabbit, and he took his popgun out of his knapsack and stuck the cork in the end.
But when he saw Billy Bunny standing there, safe and sound and happy, with his popgun in his hand and a smile on his face, he began to laugh.
Miss Marcia's rifle and her toy popgun aren't going to save us, and I doubt if Charliet can swipe any more.
A popgun like that is a whole lot dangerous for fools to play with," observed this person who had interrupted.
Whatever was he doing a-pulling a popgunthat fashion?
I saw you shoot Pedro Johnson,' says I, 'and I took that little popgun away from you that you did it with.
I'm skipping over much what followed; but one afternoon when I rides up to the ranch house to get some orders about a drove of beeves that was to be shipped, I hears something like a popgungo off.
I never looked at that hombre that rode by; but I'll bet a quart of sheep dip that he's some double-dyed son of a popgun out rounding up prohibition votes.
Of course he knew him, for he knows every boy and girl in Christendom; so a popgun was added to the medley of toys.
Santa Claus gently opened the other little fist and put the popgun into it.
A Toy Popgun A toy popgun can be easily made of two blocks of hard wood, 1/2 in.
Popgun John' was at the time a low republican in the Stock Exchange, and had a house in or near Palace Yard, from which a missile had been projected.
Popgun manufactured an article which the government said was gunpowder.
If that air Popgunmade gunpowder, why didn’t somebody see him do it?
Mr. Foreman, and gentlemen of the jury, the party popularly known in this suit as Popgun is a small affair, but I do not wonder that he kicks against this attempt of the government to charge him with powder he never made.
I am quite convinced, by the testimony, that said Popgun did manufacture gunpowder, and evade the tax.
The saidPopgun denies the manufacture of gunpowder, and sets up a defence that the said articles are used by him in concocting a certain patent medicine, known as the “Medical Dead Shot.
Popgun did make gunpowder, I guess, cause he had a little shop.
Let us clear Popgun of the charges under which he labors, by applying the match of justice to his overloaded soul.
The government has charged one Peter Popgunwith an attempt to defraud the revenue of the manufacturer’s tax on gunpowder.
Whether ’tis better to let Popgunsuffer The law’s full penalty for mixing powder, Or to take arms against this awful tax, And by our verdict free him.
And then we'll find out whether this heavy old rifle that belonged to my uncle, ain't equal to a new-fangled little popgun that shoots spreader bullets.
I saw you shoot Pedro Johnson,' says I, `and I took that little popgun away from you that you did it with.
I never looked at that hombre that rode by; but I'll bet a quart of sheep dip that he's some double-dyed son of a popgun out rounding up prohibition votes.
Loadin' in hot haste, I obsarved that the ornithologist sat like a post till that b'ar was within six foot of him, when he let drive both barrels of his popgun straight into its face.
It must be all right, when the Bible says so, but the African Jungle will do for me, and a popgun is not going to scatter families.
Then I got my biggest alder popgun and started up the road toward Sarah Hood's.
And so she went, and the bad bear never came out to so much as growl, nor did the fox, so the popgun was not needed.
We'll bring the popgun with us, Uncle Wiggily, and scare the bear.
Popgun didn't appear to have any intention of stopping till the rest did.
He hit Popgun with his heels, and started up the trail, but before he was out of sight a second cavalcade, with a cowboy at the head, came thundering past.
But he woke when he heard them getting breakfast, and by the time he was dressed and breakfast was ready, Mills came up, followed by Popgun and the packhorse, both saddled.
Popgun turned, and in spite of Joe's cries and tugs at the rein, insisted on galloping with it.
Popgun came down to a trot obediently--and also suddenly, very nearly sending Joe out over his head.
Popgun looked mildly around, to see what the change meant, and then trotted obediently off.
I seePopgun looks fat, and you've been groomin' him, too.
He waved his hand to Alice and Lucy, who watched him from the doorway, and rode off behind Mills, dropped his dunnage bag at the camp, and took Popgun to the Ranger's cabin.
He gave Popgun a jab in the ribs, and rode past his three charges, getting in front of them, and then pulled Popgundown to a walk.
I'll have old Popgun eating out of my hand yet," Joe answered.
Mihugalbut ang luthang dihang gikalit ug hulbut ang bakíta, The popgun popped when the plunger was suddenly pulled out.
A; a] {1} shoot with a native popgun or bamboo cannon.
He'll be waiting for us with a squad of thugs and that little popgun of his.
He then mentioned it as a flute, and asked for it back; pointing out that its popgun propensities were a mere accident; its real nature was to be a flute.
This effect upon grown-ups, produced by his own popgun, had given him a sense of power which was limitless; until the sudden forcible confiscation of the popgun had set thereto an unexpected limit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "popgun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
