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The horsemen were armed for most part with suord and pistoll, some onlie with suord.
Lay Morals 2005
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And you needn't flash that little penknife at me, I've got a pistoll You're a brave lad, Billy.
The Key to Rebecca Follett, Ken, 1949- 1980
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But I will never die till I have given D'Eurre a hundred shott with a pistoll, and to Murat a hundred blowes with a sword. '
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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But I will never die till I have given D'Eurre a hundred shott with a pistoll, and to
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Armes given him, with which he served the French King in his warres against the Emperour Charles the Fifth, and in pursuing the enemy whom he had in chase, was wounded with the shot of a pistoll, whereof he died the day after, at Montreul.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Mr. Solomon White entered complaint in the Princess Anne County court against Rodolphus Melborne for challenging him "with sword and pistoll."
Patrician and Plebeian Or The Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922
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Each a pistoll theirs being broke, and to Humphry Walters a Cutlasses having lost is [his] Given him before, all which Arms they are to pay for.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Cartouch Box, to Marshall a pistoll and Cartouch box he having Lost his that he had found him before, to Ephraim Read and Benjn.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Jennings, also a pistoll to James Hayes, with whom the Capt.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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The horsemen were armed for most part with suord and pistoll, some onlie with suord.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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