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Updated: June 9, 2025
The younger Robespierre threw himself from the window, but had not the good fortune to perish on the spot. It seemed as if even the melancholy fate of suicide, the last refuge of guilt and despair, was denied to men who had so long refused every species of mercy to their fellow-creatures. Le Bas alone had calmness enough to despatch himself with a pistol-shot.
But as he was still on middle-earth, and free to avail himself of a little polite deceit, he barely answered that he believed he had the honour of speaking to the niece of Mr. Redgauntlet. 'Surely, she replied; 'but were it not as easy for you to have said, to your own only sister? Darsie started in his saddle, as if he had received a pistol-shot. 'My sister! he exclaimed.
Another pistol-shot; then another. The sound came from that part of the cellar called the soap-room, directly under Polly's feet. She did not wait for further warning. Every moment was precious. She meant to save what lives she could, for Polly was strictly conscientious. She took the nearly frantic Dotty into the china closet, dragging her like a sack of meal, and turned the key.
Thus they remained, apparently paralysed with astonishment, until the raft was within pistol-shot, and then, unable to endure the suspense longer, they all slipped off into the sea. A few minutes later and the raft struck on the shore.
"Then bow before thy destiny; make thy ablutions; address thy prayer to Allah and to His Prophet; for thy, head is demanded. . . ." Ali did not allow him to finish. "My head," he cried with fury, "will not be surrendered like the head of a slave." These rapidly pronounced words were instantly followed by a pistol-shot which wounded Hassan in the thigh.
This will be to make a very modest allowance for human infirmities. Certain passions, which we are told destroy the dominion of the man over the heart of his wife, namely, aversion, grief, the bearing of children, will account for another twentieth. Adultery does not establish itself in the heart of a married woman with the promptness of a pistol-shot.
It was blowing fresh, so that Marline was afraid if he left the wheel the brig would broach to. Consequently only Paul and True Blue pursued the Frenchmen. One of them leaped down the fore-hatchway. As he did so a pistol-shot was heard, and Fid immediately afterwards appeared at the same place, exclaiming: "I've done for the fellow settle the other two!" Fid held a pistol in his hand.
We had taken the precaution to hang, at the top of the mast, some gun-powder and pistols, with which we had provided ourselves on board the frigate: we made signals by burning a great many charges of powder; we even fired some pistol-shot, but it seems that these fires were only an illusion of the eyesight, or perhaps they were nothing but the dashing of the breakers.
With adequate safeguards, I'd even say you could make a viable tissue-graft from a Svant to a Terran, or vice versa." "Ayesha, would the sound waves from that pistol-shot in any conceivable way have the sort of physical effect we're considering?" "Absolutely not," she said, and Luis Gofredo said: "I've been shot at and missed with pistols at closer range than that."
Thus a long time passed, and the lady wept still, and other sounds arose, and there were footsteps in the house, and whisperings, and people passing to and fro; but to all these Dacres was deaf, and they caused no more impression on his senses than if they were not. His ears and his sense of hearing existed only for these sobs and these sighs. At last a pistol-shot roused him.
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