We lashed our horses and galloped upon them. Shaw killed one with each barrel of his gun. I separated another from the herd and shot him. The small bullet of the rifled pistol, striking too far back, did not immediately take effect, and the bull ran on with unabated speed. Again and again I snapped the remaining pistol at him. I primed it afresh three or four times, and each time it missed fire, for the touch-hole was clogged up. Returning it to the holster, I began to load the empty pistol, still galloping by the side of the bull. By this time he was grown desperate.英文原著 · 《The Oregon Trail》
"I heard about the duel from a countryman, who saw it all from his cart. de Negrepelisse came over at three o'clock in the morning to be M. de Bargeton's second; he told M. de Chandour that if anything happened to his son-in-law, he should avenge him. A cavalry officer lent the pistols. de Negrepelisse tried them over and over again. du Chatelet tried to prevent them from practising with the pistols, but they referred the question to the officer; and he said that, unless they meant to behave like children, they ought to have pistols in working order. The seconds put them at twenty-five paces.英文原著 · 《Two Poets》
It fell out as he expected; the hungry troopers made a dash to save the trinkets; the prisoner seized a brace of pistols and leapt to the door. But, alas, the pistols missed fire, Harry was immediately overpowered, and on the morrow was carried, sick and sorry, before the Justice. From Dunstable he travelled his last journey to Newgate, and, being condemned at the Old Bailey, he was hanged till he was dead, and his body thereafter was carried for dissection to a surgeon's in that same Covent Garden where he first deserted his hackney cab for the pleasures of the town.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Grushnitski placed himself opposite me and, at a given signal, began to raise his pistol. His knees shook. He aimed right at my forehead. Un- utterable fury began to seethe within my breast. Suddenly he dropped the muzzle of the pistol and, pale as a sheet, turned to his second. "I cannot," he said in a hollow voice. "Coward!" answered the captain. A shot rang out.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
He came to a dead stop. Grushnitski stood with his head sunk on his breast, embarrassed and gloomy. "Let them be!" he said at length to the cap- tain, who was going to pull my pistol out of the doctor's hands. "You know yourself that they are right."
In vain the captain made various signs to him. Grushnitski would not even look. Meanwhile the doctor had loaded the pistol and handed it to me. On seeing that, the captain spat and stamped his foot. "You are a fool, then, my friend," he said: "a common fool!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
Thereafter the Wild Dog was in town every day, and he behaved well until one Saturday he got drunk again, and this time, by a peculiar chance, it was Marston again who leaped on him, wrenched his pistol away, and put him in the calaboose. Again he paid his fine, promptly visited a ``blind Tiger,'' came back to town, emptied another pistol at Marston on sight and fled for the hills.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》