pistol

While looking for the pot, McKay said, he found the Springfield pistol in Walters’ room.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

"You start with a pistol, and then you get a shotgun, then you get a machine gun," Cregger explained.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

In Boones Mill, patrons still treat Taylor, who carries a small pistol in his back pocket, as a celebrity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

After dropping the water pistol, the man was arrested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

I knew by the high-heeled, tooled-leather boots, the big white felt hat, and the pistol in a holster on his hip.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

When they finally returned, Roebuck realized he was missing four pistols from his safe.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

But the number of Luger pistols in general that were made is more like three million.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

When authorities searched Michael Abatti’s properties, they took possession of more than three dozen firearms including more than two dozen rifles, as well as shotguns, pistols and revolvers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

She was attending an event, along with her father, at a "major munitions factory" that produces new pistols and other "portable light arms", Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said.

From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026

Only ten feet away, a man had appeared, a bow and quiver over his shoulder and two old-fashioned flintlock dueling pistols in his hands.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The movie was Red River, a western version of Mutiny on the Bounty with the range as the ocean and John Wayne as a pistoled and Stetsoned Captain Bligh.

From Time Magazine Archive

While scurrying water rats squeaked from the walls, pistoled their water, and ran for more.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

They suddenly left the bridge, to disappear in the forecastle for a few moments, then to reappear—each man belted and pistoled, and one bringing an outfit to Forsythe on the bridge.

From The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

Brown as a coffee-berry, rugged, pistoled, spurred, wary, indefeasible, I saw my old friend, Deputy-Marshal Buck Caperton, stumble, with jingling rowels, into a chair in the marshal's outer office.

From Roads of Destiny by O. Henry

We have counted eighteen hundred odd From Benavente hither, pistoled thus.

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

This pistoling of Colonel Washington by the British commander skimmed a little of the cream from our great and glorious victory.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde

No body of rough, uncouth, pistolled ruffians, such as Bret Harte depicts the miners, would have formed such a group of benevolent, far-reaching and comprehensive laws.

From A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country by Thomas Dykes Beasley

That would ha’ been flat mutiny; and remember his name was on the ship’s books as first officer, and he might have pistolled us every one and had the law on his side.

From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward

"What are you pistolling, Larry?" said a familiar voice close by his elbow, and he saw his master, accompanied by a handsome young man in a cloak.

From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Kearney looked from one to the other, fairly pistolling his scrutiny.

From Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie

Even those who did not quarrel with his views sometimes, before Sir George Trevelyan's book, disliked and regretted what have been called his "pistolling ways"—the positive, hectoring "hold-your-tongue" sort of tone which dominated his productions.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

"I doubt much whether it was quite wise of you, assuming that you expected to find me here, to have come without that pistolling retinue with which you provided yourself last time."

From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle

Now when Macaulay advances with his hectoring sentences and his rough pistolling ways, we feel all the time that his pulse is as steady as that of the most practised duellist who ever ate fire.

From Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay by John Morley