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  • Joan had been bad enough, with her Baden-Powell and long-barrelled Colt's; but here was this newcomer also looking for adventure, and finding it in no other way than by lugging a peace - loving planter into an absurd and preposterous bush-whacking duel.

    Chapter 27 2010

  • She lifted her head with a proud air of dismissing sadness, after, the manner of a woman qualified to wear a Baden-Powell and a long-barrelled Colt's.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • There were other striking things about her -- the cowboy Stetson hat, the heavy braids of brown hair, and the long-barrelled 38 Colt's revolver that hung in its holster on her hip.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • Then on the wall he saw a Stetson hat hanging, and beneath it a full cartridge-belt and a long-barrelled 38 Colt's revolver.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • And she was taking her Stetson hat with her, along with the cartridge-belt and the long-barrelled revolver.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • And my father, like them, had a long-barrelled rifle close to hand as he drove.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • Joan was standing up in the stern-sheets, reiterating her good-byes -- a slim figure of a woman in the tight-fitting jacket she had worn ashore from the wreck, the long-barrelled Colt's revolver hanging from the loose belt around her waist, her clear-cut face like a boy's under the Stetson hat that failed to conceal the heavy masses of hair beneath.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • For the rest, he wore a faded Sapper jacket and a wideawake hat, with a black sash round his hips; when he turned I saw he had one of the new long-barrelled Remington .44 revolvers reversed through the sash over his right rump, - a gunfighter's gun, with the foresight filed away, if you please.

    Watershed 2010

  • He was naked except for a short war-bonnet and breech-clout, his face and chest glistening with ochre and vermillion, at his waist were strapped two long-barrelled Colts, a stone axe hung from his decorated saddle-blanket, and he carried a feathered lance.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • In one smooth movement, she pulled a long-barrelled pistol from her jacket.

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

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