pistol-bullet

He knew too well that a pistol-bullet could not be the be-all and the end-all here, and there was too much manliness in him for so cowardly an escape.

The Small House at Allington 2004

He touches the gland, and finds the skin sane and sound, but under the cuticle there lies a small lump like a pistol-bullet, that moves as he pushes it.

Eothen 2003

For an instant, he wondered how the small bursting-charge of a 10-mm explosive pistol-bullet could accomplish such havoc, and assumed that the native had been carrying a bomb in his belt.

Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

He succeeded in shaking off his captors and fled, a pistol-bullet being sent after him, which did not hit him.

The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 American Anti-Slavery Society

At the temperature of - 52. 2°, Mr. Kendall froze some mercury in the mould of a pistol-bullet, and fired it against a door at the distance of six paces.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 Various

Indeed, the intelligence, some pleasant morning, that a duel had just been fought, and one of the parties lamed in the sword arm, or scientifically run through the body with a small sword, or bored through the cranium with a pistol-bullet, excited little attention or remark, excepting among the friends and relatives of the parties.

Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper

For an instant, he wondered how the small bursting-charge of a 10-mm explosive pistol-bullet could accomplish such havoc, and assumed that the native had been carrying a bomb in his belt.

Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

For an instant, he wondered how the small bursting-charge of a 10-mm. explosive pistol-bullet could accomplish such havoc, and assumed that the native had been carrying a bomb in his belt.

Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

The fact of the pistol-bullet being fired through the hand, is doubtless a circumstance of importance.

Select Speeches of Daniel Webster Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 1903

'It is steel of proof,' Sir Jacob remarked; 'a pistol-bullet might glance from it.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894