pistol

This appeal verdict will decide Le Pen's political future and in effect fire the starting pistol on the presidential race.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Co, the police spokesman, also revealed the other weapon used in the shooting, a .38 calibre pistol, was registered to a security agency in Cebu City.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

Unlike the arquebus shouldered by foot soldiers, the pistol was often viewed with suspicion and disapproval.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Inside Thomas’ home, investigators described finding a pistol, a hunting rifle, an AR-style rifle and several 30-round ammunition magazines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

My cap pistol was taken from me and, despite my tears, put out with the garbage.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

Starmer, speaking to British reporters on his flight home, said the pistols were inscribed with the name of each leader and accompanied by a box of ammunition.

From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026

Saul Pacheco, who turns 88 in November, is sitting in a lawn chair at the Arcadia Invitational with his friends, the starters dressed in red suits who fire pistols to begin races.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026

Spectators are being encouraged to arrive on foot or by public transport, and bring their buckets and water pistols too, of course.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

Today, its pistols, shotguns and other weaponry are used by militaries and hobbyists around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

In it were pistols, ammunition, forgery materials, my notebook, and the Führer’s most beloved treasure, the amber swan.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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