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“Lightly pull trigger until cheese extrudes from tip,” read the instructions, and you can’t help but think: “My God, what have we done?”

From The Guardian • May 17, 2017

Thus prepared, he would await the approach of the bear with perfect coolness, nor pull trigger until he was close at hand.

From The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de

He saw the big bull often, and, although he was charged by him once again, he refused to pull trigger on the old fellow.

From The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

The hunter had taken aim, and was about to pull trigger, when the canoe commenced rocking about, as if tossed upon a stormy sea!

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

"I shall pull trigger with a steadier hand, ma'am, when I think that your father's daughter is praying for me."

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton




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