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What business have you got at your time of life to be trying to slaughter a man fifteen years younger than you are, in the middle of civilised London, especially when he's a high-tailed gun-slick with a beltful of scalps who can shoot your ears off with his eyes shut?

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What business have you got at your time of life to be trying to slaughter a man fifteen years younger than you are, in the middle of civilised London, especially when he's a high-tailed gun-slick with a beltful of scalps who can shoot your ears off with his eyes shut?

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

"Never again will I sneer at your beltful of tools, Peabody."

The Mummy Case Peters, Elizabeth 1985

An 'we'll forget the bones, an' the poison, an 'the dust, an' with the discriminatin 'perception of a beltful of rollickin' ferments, we'll enjoy the pink, an 'the purple, an' the red.

Prairie Flowers 1921

If a man has a rifle in his hands and a beltful of cartridges, surely he should use them.

The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution Mariano Azuela 1912

The muzzles of the two-pounder pom-poms moved slowly after their target, and when the range-indicator told that it was within reach of their shells the first gun opened with a trial beltful.

Action Front Boyd Cable 1910

Quincy and Benson, each one girdled with a beltful of cartridges, each carrying a heavy revolver, each scowling wickedly, were marching up to Snelling.

The Grain Ship Morgan Robertson 1888

Then came our own Cornish giant-killer, adapted for an Italian audience, dressed to taste in a great brigand hat and a beltful of daggers and pistols.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

"Very right, sir," said the captain; and then to myself: "And see here, David, yon man has a beltful of gold, and I give you my word that you shall have your fingers in it."

Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

Indeed, had they tried to give us trouble, it is probable we should have mastered them before they could all have gained the deck, for our first act, after quieting them, was to arm ourselves each with a whole beltful of loaded pistols and the best of the swords in the felucca's armoury, after which we pitched the whole of the remaining weapons overboard.

The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Harry Collingwood 1886