But a scurry of moccasins and loud cries, rounded off with a pistol-shot, interrupted the discussion. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Also, he was assisted by a thick leather belt, three inches wide and a yard in length, with which he always rode and which, on occasion, could come down on the naked back of a stooping coolie with a report like a pistol-shot. ❋ Unknown (2010)
That diabolical thing cut through the air with a noise like a steam whistle, so fast that you couldn't see it; there was a crack like a pistol-shot, a fearful, choked scream of agony, and then the Cossack was snaking it back for another blow. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)
They had not proceeded a pistol-shot from the place where they parted, when a short turning brought them in front of an old mouldering gateway, whose heavy pinnacles were decorated in the style of the seventeenth century, with clumsy architectural ornaments; several of which had fallen down from decay, and lay scattered about, no further care having been taken than just to remove them out of the direct approach to the avenue. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I bent down and was all too aware of the pistol-shot cracking of my joints. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2008)
This was especially the case where three or four of them stretched their arms over a deep gully, through which winded the horse-path to Shaws – Castle, at a point about a pistol-shot distant from the Buck-stane. ❋ Unknown (2008)
At last, he had grown impatient, and, sure that there was a nest there, sure of being in “luck,” having recognized many of the ruffians who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting for the pistol-shot. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Darsie started in his saddle, as if he had received a pistol-shot. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Ay, ay, sir!” and on they went, closing fast with the Spaniard, till within a pistol-shot. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The first sight of you went to her heart like a pistol-shot, Florine has gone to her dressing-room to bring the girl to reason. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Apoplexy is a pistol-shot that does not miscalculate. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The good and the bad in her alike impel her to have done with it all; and a pistol-shot ends what is surely one of the most poignant character-tragedies in literature. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There was a rush forward, the horn of the car sounded, everything swayed violently to the right for perhaps ten yards or so, and there was a report like a pistol-shot. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Then from far away behind the enclosure I heard a pistol-shot. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
From somewhere among the trees a pistol-shot cracked into the air. ❋ Unknown (2005)
After he was undressed, and laid in a warm bed, a surgeon examined his body, and found a wound in his neck by a sword, and another in his right side, occasioned by a pistol-shot; so that his prognostic was very dubious. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Within pistol-shot of the very place where my grandfather had been murdered — a lonely place, an unholy spot, and I was looking at the hand that did it. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
An assault on our pockets, which in more barbarous times would have been made in the brusque form of a pistol-shot, is quite a well-bred and smiling procedure now it has become a request for a loan thrown in as an easy parenthesis between the second and third glasses of claret. ❋ Unknown (2004)
