“The ladies’ fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.”
“The hoofbeats rang through the town like pistol shots.”
“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”
“Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.”
“In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.”
“I always shot scorpions with the .22 pistol.”