“The hoofbeats rang through the town like pistol shots.”
“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.”
“The ladies’ fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.”
“...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.”
“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 ...”