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Trigger might continue to order food and wine, and beer and tobacco, to be supplied ad libitum, and whenever he chose. How was he to put an end to it, otherwise than by throwing up the game, and going back to London? That now would be gross ill-usage to the Conservatives of Percycross, who by such a step would be left in the lurch without a candidate.
Years ago you attempted to kill me in the Black Forest; take care you do not arouse my anger again." The vicomte, who had no weapon, recoiled: Simon, however, seized a pocket-pistol from his breast, and mockingly replied: "Oh, two can play at that game!" He pressed his hand to the trigger, but Pierre Labarre put his pistol down, and contemptuously said: "Bah! for the lackey the dog will do.
His finger was on the trigger, when Durant himself threw up the muzzle of the rifle, and sent the ball whizzing through the air, some ten feet above the heads of the fugitives. "My revenge must be fuller than that, or not at all," he said. "The ball would have killed both, and I would not have had that for the world."
The snare is carried in a basket-like case, which is often fitted with a compartment for the decoy rooster. Another type of chicken snare consists of a single noose, which rests on two elevated strips of bamboo. The other end of the cord is attached to a bent limb, held down by means of a small trigger, which slips under a cross strip. The game is led onto the trap by scattering grain.
Some one at this critical time, with the characteristic eagerness of poor human nature to "put its finger in the pie," cried out "Now!" and another shouted "Pull!" but Mr Coxwell, regardless of every one, decided for himself; and, just when the wind lulled and the sun shone bright, and the balloon stood proudly erect, he pulled the trigger and they were free. But they were more than free.
Here's to thee, good apple-tree Pockets full, hats full, great bushel-bags full! Amen, an' vire off the gun! Whereupon Nandy, always after a caution to be extry-careful, would shut his eyes, pull the trigger of his blunderbuss, and wake all the echoes of the creek in an uproar which, as Susannah never failed to remark, was fit to frighten every war-ship down in Hamoaze.
He quickly beheld three Indians and one white man, all well mounted. Wishing to give the alarm to his companions, he raised his rifle, took a steady aim at the breast of the foremost Indian, and drew the trigger. His gun had become wet on the raft, and flashed. The enemy were instantly alarmed, and dashed at him. Kenton took to his heels, and was pursued by four horsemen at full speed.
Captain emptied his six-shooter till his numbed fingers grew rigid as the trigger, and always at his back swelled the deep shouts of the sailor, who, with practised eye and mighty strokes, forced their way through the closing lanes between the jaws of the ice pack. At last, beaten and tossed, they rested disheartened and hopeless.
Suddenly it could no longer be doubted that the line was beginning to hesitate. The outlaw saw it, too. "Give it to 'em good!" he cried. Both men shot, and then again. The line wavered. "Two more shots will stop 'em!" cried the road-agent, and pulled the trigger. The hammer clicked against an empty chamber. "I'm done!" he cried, hopelessly. His cartridges were gone.
The distance was not great, to be sure, but it was enough for his purpose intending, as he did, to meet his foe, when the moment of action should come, in close conflict, and thrust the muzzle of his weapon down the said foe's throat before condescending to draw the trigger.
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