A Christmas Story (1983) - An irresistible, often hilarious 40's-era holiday tale about young Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), growing up in a loving but eccentric family, and his obsession with getting a very special air-gun for Christmas. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Born at the outbreak of World War II, Takahashi is a chubby man with a willowy gray beard who lost vision in his right eye in an air-gun accident at 14. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And while a teacher faces a 10 year sentence for firing an air-gun into the ground following a campaign of harassment by local yobs, the police are hard pressed - providing protection to gangsters. ❋ Laban (2005)
After this he wished to try his luck elsewhere, and the huntsman gave him nothing in the way of payment but an air-gun, which had, however, this property, that it hit its mark without fail whenever he shot with it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
So he took his air-gun and his knapsack, wherein all the things which he had formerly carried away with him from the castle as tokens of his truthfulness were still lying, and went into the forest, and found the hut with the sign, “To-day given, to-morrow sold.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
After this he got into a boat and rowed over the lake, and as soon as he landed, the little dog came running out, and was about to bark, but the huntsman took his air-gun and shot it dead. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"And later on my father gave me an air-gun I taught myself to shoot here." ❋ Neels, Betty (1991)
There's genius in that, for who would expect to find such a thing fired from an air-gun? ❋ Unknown (1982)
Holmes had picked up the powerful air-gun from the floor, and was examining its mechanism. ❋ Unknown (1982)
I let them handle the smooth metal: the first time many of them had seen an actual gun, even an air-gun, at close quarters. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1981)
The air-gun that I'd taken to school was little more than a toy and needed no licence or secure storage, but I also owned two Mauser 7. 62s, an Enfield No. 4 7.62 and two Ansch'tz. 22s around which all sorts of regulations bristled, and also an old Lee Enfield .303 dating back from my early days which was still as lethal as ever if one could raise the ammunition for it. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1981)
The gun I had taken to the lesson had been a simple air-gun, but I told them also how a rifle worked, and why in each case a bullet or a pellet came out fast. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1981)
I put the air-gun back in its rack, checked that everything was as it should be, and locked the doors on the familiar smell of oil. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1981)
I parked outside the closed garage doors and let myself into the house with arms full of air-gun and exercise books. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1981)
In an earlier note, relying on other authorities, I took it to mean some kind of air-gun. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
On the way home from the sheep-pasture, Mr. Spencer saw a boy by the side of the road with an air-gun in his hands. ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)
To make a boy understand the misery that his air-gun and his fishhook may cause, to show the cowardly cruelty in throwing stones and in hurting innocent and defenseless creatures -- this is what the Band of Mercy may accomplish. ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)
"What a fine shot!" he said, and fired his air-gun. ❋ Sarah J. Eddy (N/A)
