turn-me-out

Updated: May 7, 2025

In another moment he re-appeared in the doorway; not with any papers in his hand but, instead, a long rifle, that with its butt resting on the door-stoop, stood almost as high as himself? "Now, Mister Turn-me-out?" said he, speaking in a satirical triumphant tone, and raising the piece in front of him, "thur's my title my pre-emption right's the right o' the rifle.

Mayne Reid - The Wild Huntress: Love in the Wilderness