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Dismissing his servants to bed, he went into his dressing-room, completely changed his attire, put on a pair of long riding-boots, and throwing a serape over his shoulders, paused a moment, took a pair of small "Derringer" pistols from a box, put them in his pockets, and then slipped cautiously down the staircase. A lack of confidence in his own domestics had invaded him for the first time.
The instant the major perceived his manoeuvre he pulled himself up to his full height, as he might have done on parade, and slipping his hand beneath the tails of his frock-coat, produced a small glittering implement, which he levelled straight at the young merchant's head. "A revolver!" Ezra gasped, staggering back. "No, a derringer," said the veteran blandly.
Which he does with a derringer. He's just givin' it a preliminary wave or two and preparin' his war song according to Hoyle when Louisiana smokes him up a plenty." "I reckon Snake starts it, then," remarked Ike. "You might say so. But rightfully speakin' he don't never actually get started, Snake don't.
Courageous and self-possessed as Captain Carroll was by nature and education, this malevolent vision, and incarnation of the thought uppermost in his mind, turned him cold. He had half drawn a derringer from his breast, when his eye fell on the grizzled locks and wrinkled face of the old man, and his hand dropped to his side.
I knowed wan iv thim gun twirlers wanst. He was a burrd pluggin' tomatty cans an' such a fair wonder he was. But wan day he starts to make a pinwheel iv his finger forninst a stranger he mistakes fer a tindherfut, an' he gets th' face iv him blowed in be a derringer from that same stranger's coat pocket." "Sure," McHale agreed. "It was comin' to him. He should have stuck to tomatter cans.
He pulled himself together and smiled upon his beloved twins. Forrest had turned to the Earl of Moray. "Was it your ancestor," he said, "who 'was a bra' gallant, and who raid at the gluve'?" "I am confident of it," said the young Englishman. "By all accounts," said Forrest, "he would have been a good hand with a derringer. Have you that gift for games?"
And pulseless and cold, with a derringer by his side and a bullet in his heart, though still calm as in life, beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat. Thomas Hardy
A despairing curse is heard. The Creole gambler snatches, with the other hand, a pistol. He springs like a lion on Philip Hardin. One step back Hardin retreats. No word comes from his closed lips. The mate of the derringer rings out loudly Charlie's death warrant. The gambler crashes to the floor. His heart's blood floods the scattered gold. The pistol is yet clenched in his stiffened left hand.
"My friend, as you call him, is simply a miner, and has nothing to do with this," interrupted Johnny emphatically. "I thank you, sir," said the spokesman, rising. The other two, who had throughout said no word, followed his example. "Do you know Danny Randall?" asked Johnny as they moved off. If he had presented his derringer under their noses, they could not have stopped more suddenly.
"I wanted to shoot long before," said Harry, "but I remembered and waited until yuh said the word. Yuh shore stopped that derringer o' Stover's." "Wheah's the guard?" "Tied up outside." "Bueno. I rode down heah slow, so yo'd have plenty o' time to get posted. I suspected treachery of some kind to-night. But it was a surprise to see the majah heah. What time is it?" "After two.
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