brass-locked

Updated: May 7, 2025

All were too much inflamed by passion to heed him for a time; but suddenly one man sprang forward and thrust a huge, brass-locked pistol into his own face. The boy was frightened, and strove to throw himself backward out of range; but the pistol snapped! Providentially the weapon was either unloaded, or the powder was damp. Otherwise that moment would have ended Enoch Harding's earthly career.

W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster - With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga