“In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.”
“The hoofbeats rang through the town like pistol shots.”
“I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.”
“The ladies’ fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.”
“When the High King was killed - first poisoned, several times, then shot with pistols, then his head cut off, then burned in the great palace fire ... no one really liked to talk about it ...”
“For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on top of another.”