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Updated: May 24, 2025
Look to these pistols for me. Are they likely to object to hair-triggers?" A knocking at the door turned off our attention, and the next moment Baker's voice was heard. "O'Malley, you'll be close run for time; the meeting-place is full three miles from this." I seized the key and opened the door.
A bout at fisticuffs never did a man any harm that I ever heard; a man's fists are good, honest weapons supplied by a beneficent Providence far better than your unnatural swords and murderous hair-triggers; at least, so I think, being, I trust, something of a philosopher.
He must be devilish old, in spite of his looks. Why, he was at Waterloo!" "He is young enough to be a terrible rival," answered Randal, with artful truth. Frank turned pale, and began to meditate dreadful bloodthirsty thoughts, of which hair-triggers and Lord's Cricket-ground formed the staple.
Take the old German, then; see now, hold your pistol thus, no finger on the guard there, these two on the trigger. They are not hair-triggers; drop the muzzle a bit; bend your elbow a trifle more; sight your man outside your arm, outside, mind, and take him in the hip, and if anywhere higher, no matter."
Live military men had not been seen in East Patten since the Revolutionary War, three-quarters of a century before the villagers first saw Major Martt; and such soldiers as had been revealed to East Patten through the medium of print were as dangerously touchy as the hair-triggers of their favorite weapons.
Having voted for the abolition of the Irish Parliament, the Right Honorable John Toler was prepared to justify his conduct with hair-triggers or sarcasms.
Let him scorch a little; it'll do him good. It's healthy for young men. That's the reason the old man don't forbid it, I s'pose. And these fellows carry good shooting-irons with hair-triggers, and I declare I don't want to be bothered writing home to your mother, and explaining to her that you got killed in a fight with blacklegs, I declare I don't, you see.
She was a Protestant, and in his cursed folly he had made her think he was reproaching her for Bigotry. Good God! What could he do? Two emotions, hung, as it were, on hair-triggers, held the stage. In Christian, the fiend of laughter held sway, in poor Barty, the angel of tears.
If I were a rich man, I would snap my fingers at him; but how can I, with a paltry eight hundred a year, provide for that woman? Pshaw! If I could but settle it with a pair of hair-triggers and twenty paces of turf, I'd leave little work for the lawyers!" "Well, then, what is to be done?"
He must be devilish old, in spite of his looks. Why, he was at Waterloo!" "He is young enough to be a terrible rival," answered Randal, with artful truth. Frank turned pale, and began to meditate dreadful bloodthirsty thoughts, of which hair-triggers and Lord's Cricket-ground formed the staple.
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