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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Well, I 'll leave it to aunt if it is n't odd to see such a queer lot of stuff in one store; I 've heard about country stores, but I never saw one that would come up to that before. It is almost equal to going into a fair, to go in there. There was everything you could think of, from a grindstone to a pop-gun."
Drake's island carries but a paltry battery, just raised by the man whose name it bears; Mount Wise is a lone gentleman's house among fields; the citadel is a pop-gun fort, which a third-class steamer would shell into rubble for an afternoon's amusement. And the shipping, where are they?
Universal suffrage could scarcely more efficiently swamp the franchises of men who care a straw what becomes of Great Britain! To catch a Scot-and-lot voter by such frivolous arguments Randal Leslie might as well have tried to bring down a rhinoceros by a pop-gun charged with split peas! The young man who so firmly believed that "knowledge was power" was greatly disgusted.
Upon his bed was a large pop-gun, a football, a dormouse in a cage, a punchball on a stand, a large box of "curios," and a buckskin which was his dearest possession and had been presented to him by an uncle from South Africa. Mrs. Brown sat down weakly on a chair. "You can't possibly take any of these things," she said faintly but firmly.
Now and then I'd come across a little pop-gun pistol, just about right for plugging teeth with, which I'd throw out the window. When I finished with the collection, I dumped the pillow-case load in the middle of the aisle.
"I'd always rather fight than run away, Harry, lad at least, when it's anything like a fair match; so let's rouse up the pop-gun and have a shy at 'em." This gun was, as I think I have mentioned before, a four-pound rifled piece, which was specially made to my order by an eminent firm.
"See here, you son of an imported Malaga jackass," he said between his teeth, "I'd have you know that I'm related on my mother's side to Carbine, winner of the Melbourne Cup, and where I come from we aren't accustomed to being ridden over roughshod by any parrot-mouthed, pig-headed mule in a pop-gun pea-shooter battery. Are you ready?" "On your hind legs!" squealed Billy.
I reckon your hand ain't so active as it's been I had to pretty near stamp it off of you you would keep pullin' the trigger of that pop-gun. Do you reckon you c'n get up now, an' get on your horse?" Masten felt himself lifted; he did not resist. Then he felt the saddle under him; he made an effort and steadied himself.
Gummed on its disc, scraps of paper properly coloured will tell us of white light, decomposable into various coloured rays... "There will be the pop-gun, with its ramrod and its two plugs of tow, the hinder one expelling the foremost by the elasticity of the compressed air. Thus we get a glimpse of the ballistics of gunpowder, and the pressure of steam in engines..."
I cannot do what you ask; I am bound by pledge. Adrian is, undoubtedly, more than peculiar on certain points, and, really, I dare not, if I would, thwart him." "Oh!" cried Tanty, shooting off the ejaculation as from a pop-gun. Then, shaking herself free of Rupert's touch, she sat down abruptly in her chair again, and began fanning herself with her handkerchief.
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