sixshooter

He gave me the necessary authority, and I at once set to work to bring about a better state of discipline on the reservation, and to put an end to the practices of the medicine men (having also in view the recovery of my sixshooter and self-respect), by marching to the village and taking the rebellious Indians by force.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Burton, who had nothing but a sabre, fought like a demon; Speke, on his left near the entrance of the tent, did deadly execution with a pair of revolvers; Herne on his right emptied into the enemy a sixshooter, and then hammered it with the butt end.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

And holding the long blue sixshooter by its barrel, he struck the roan heavily with the butt just behind the eyes.

Winner Take All Larry Evans

I quickly pulled my old sixshooter and began to pump lead into him at the rate of about an ounce a second.

Black Beaver The Trapper George Edward Lewis

"Funny, I'd have my sixshooter out if I was home and you told me to get the hell out, sonny."

Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

Billy Byrne had heard footsteps upon the boards without and he was ready, so that as Grayson entered he found himself looking straight at the business end of a sixshooter.

The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

Speke, on his left near the entrance of the tent, did deadly execution with a pair of revolvers; Herne on his right emptied into the enemy a sixshooter, and then hammered it with the butt end.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

Mary V had once been candidly tempted to shoot him and had dallied with the temptation to the point of cocking her sixshooter and aiming it directly at him.

The Thunder Bird B. M. Bower 1905

He unlocked the door noisily; he opened it noisily; he took his sixshooter and belt from the wall quietly and closed the door, noisily again; he locked it -- from the outside.

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

He threw Foy's sixshooter aside; he pulled Foy's wrists behind him and tied them tightly with a handkerchief.

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901