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Updated: June 3, 2025
He can sleep cat-fashion, for sixty seconds at a time, with all his wits about him in the intervals, and likes to feel in the crook of his own forefinger the hidden hair-trigger of events.
"How's that?" says he, twistin' his neck uneasy. "Notice the two gents I was just talkin' with," I goes on, "specially the savage-lookin' one with the framed lamps? Well, that was Hubby. He's got one of these hair-trigger dispositions too." "Pooh!" says Skeet. But he's listenin' close. "I'm only tellin' you," says I. "Then the big one with the wide shoulders that's Brother.
In the quarrels which take place among them, the ladies are generally the causa belli a cause which would soon lead to the depopulation of the country, were all husbands to avenge their wrongs by shedding the blood of the guilty. I would recommend this mode of conducting "affairs of honour" to honourable gentlemen using the hair-trigger, as an improvement.
True, he refrains from giving his street and number even tears the printed headings off the letter paper he employs; but that does not matter, as in a little village like New York a Texan with a hair-trigger temper has only to inquire of the first man he meets to be directed to the one he wants.
Steele and I, while balancing our lives on the hair-trigger of a gun, had certainly fallen into a tangled web of circumstances not calculated in the role of Rangers. I went back to the ranch with regret, remorse, sorrow knocking at my heart, but notwithstanding that, tingling alive to the devilish excitement of the game.
He started in hair-trigger fright. Creeping to the window, he peeped cautiously between casing and blanket. Convinced that it was nothing, he returned to his seat by the table. "It's too bad we couldn't have a fire," suggested the woman then. "I'd make us something hot." The stove was there, rusted but still serviceable; available wood was scattered around. But the man shook his bullet head.
As he talked the pallor quite left him, and the fighting fire blazed in his eyes, he stood lion-like, his feet spread apart as if to meet a shock, his tawny head thrown back, and there was about him a hair-trigger sensitiveness, in spite of his bulk, a nervousness of hand and coldness of glance which characterizes the gun-fighter.
Taking a polished gauge which hung at his watch-chain, he set the rear sight, and, cocking the piece, set the hair-trigger. Noiselessly raising the muzzle above the gunwale, he ran his eye along the sights.
At the sight a wild surge of mirth overwhelmed Hal's hair-trigger nerves. He began to laugh, with strange, quick catchings of the breath: to laugh tumultuously, rackingly, unendurably. "Stop it!" shouted Dr. Elliot, and smote him a sledge-blow between the shoulders. For the moment the hysteria was jarred out of Hal. He gasped, gurgled, and took a step toward his assistant. "Hey, Mac! Wake up!
As Pendleton handed his pistol to Hamilton he asked, "Shall I set the hair-trigger?" "Not this time," replied Hamilton. With pistols primed and cocked, the men were stationed facing each other, thirty feet apart. Both were pale, but free from any visible nervousness or excitement. Neither had partaken of stimulants.
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