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  • With these words the Kid slowly raised his pistol-hand from his thigh, and Jesse as deliberately raised his.

    The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954

  • Then, even as Barnabas stared down wide-eyed, the rigid figure started, the deadly pistol-hand wavered, was snatched back, and

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • We struggled like two beasts, without an articulate word, I holding his pistol-hand down and keeping a grip on the other.

    The Woman in Black 1915

  • Warned by my look he clapped hand to his pocket but as he freed the weapon I was upon him, grasping his pistol-hand.

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Now, at the sight of this paper, Barrymaine fell back a step, his pistol-hand wavered, fell to his side, and sinking into a chair, he seemed to shrink into himself as he stared dully at a worn patch in the carpet.

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • His real personality, his true ego, was absolutely absorbed in the one vital, all-deciding problem of that stiffening pistol-hand.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

  • "Up to the village with it!" he commanded, waving his pistol-hand toward the causeway and the fortified gates.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

  • With the table-drawer under one arm and my pistol-hand swinging, I followed Buckhurst out into the hall.

    The Maids of Paradise 1899

  • While my own attention was completely engrossed, he had seized the colonel's pistol-hand and twisted it behind the colonel's back until his eyes bulged out as I have endeavored to describe.

    A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures 1893

  • But he knew better even than they the value of time; he pushed his horse up to the gates, and hammered them with his boot while be kept his pistol-hand towards the

    Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Stanley John Weyman 1891

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