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Updated: June 3, 2025
It's the same thing in a political convention sometimes. The reason for it is: the crowd is ripe and the head steer gives the right bellow and off they go!" Colonel Dodd grabbed his nephew by the elbow and rushed him off the stage and into an anteroom. "Is that matter on the hair-trigger, Richard?" he demanded. "It's ready to be snapped any minute."
So delicately is it geared, set on such a hair-trigger, as it were, that it not only beats faster when work is done anywhere in the body, but begins to hurry in anticipation of work to be done anywhere.
The long-dormant spirit of combat kindled in his eye. "Better still, sir," he grinned, "let's drive a screw into any one who comes up in the lift." "But how?" "By tying your pistol firmly to the dresser, putting it on a hair-trigger I know how to do that, of course an' letting it plug a bullet into the right place when the panel is half open."
It did not take him long to conclude that he really had his spoils. Folding them up carefully, he thrust them into his coat and stored them, displaying, however, less triumph than I had thought he would. The truth was that he looked preoccupied, and I wondered why. For the first time in all the hair-trigger situations that I had seen him face I sensed a strain in him. "So much for that. Now, Mr.
He picked it all to pieces, and turned the ruin over and over under his glass; and then he said there appeared to be something the matter with the hair-trigger. He fixed it, and gave it a fresh start. It did well now, except that always at ten minutes to ten the hands would shut together like a pair of scissors, and from that time forth they would travel together.
How often have troops spent with exhaustion responded to the call of such simple phrases as "The Flag," "Our Country," "Liberty," or such songs as "The Marseillaise," "God Save the King," "Dixie"! These phrases are but the signs of ideas, yet the sounding of these phrases has summoned these ideas into consciousness, and the summoning of these ideas into consciousness has placed undreamed-of and immeasurable foot-pounds of energy on the hair-trigger of action.
I supposed all Indians were just savage Indians that hunted till their bellies were full, and slept till they were empty again." "H'm," rejoined Rolf, with a gentle laugh. "I see you also have been doing some 'hair-trigger, steel-trap, cocksure jedgin'." "I wonder if he'd like to hear some of my songs?" "It's worth trying; anyway, I would," said Rolf.
"It's this way," said Mosey imperatively, and deftly weaving into his address the thin red line of puissant adjective; "You dunno what you're doin' when you're foolin' with this run. She's hair-trigger at the best o' times, an' she's on full cock this year. Best watched station on the track. It's risk whatever way you take it.
He began to wonder if his fingers would be slippery on the butt of the gun. Then he tried covertly to dry them against his shirt. But he ceased this again, knowing that he must be of hair-trigger alertness to watch for the stamp of the white horse.
He advances his foreleg, and exposes to view a small spot, denuded of hair, just behind the point of his shoulder; upon this the hunter brings the sight of his rifle to bear; lightly and delicately his finger presses upon the hair-trigger. Quick as thought the spiteful crack of the rifle responds to his slight touch, and instantly in the middle of the bare spot appears a small red dot.
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