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Wrapping his right hand around the pistollike trigger and using the other to steady the long barrel, he settled himself on the weapon, still as a statue.

Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

Wrapping his right hand around the pistollike trig - ger and using the other to steady the long barrel, he settled himself on the weapon, still as a statue.

Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975

Wrapping his right hand around the pistollike trig - ger and using the other to steady the long barrel, he settled himself on the weapon, still as a statue.

Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975

Then, before he closed the starting switch, he drew a pistollike weapon and checked it.

Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934

They found refrigeration rooms, too, and using Martha's ice axe and the pistollike vibratool Sachiko carried on her belt, they pounded and pried one open, to find dessicated piles of what had been vegetables, and leathery chunks of meat.

Omnilingual H. Beam Piper 1934

His regalia discarded, he stood for a moment in loose trousers and a soft white shirt, with a pistollike weapon in a shoulder holster under his left arm -- no longer Ghullam the high priest of Yat-Zar, but now

Temple Trouble H. Beam Piper 1934

First, he picked up the pistollike weapon and checked it, and then he examined the many instruments on the panel in front of him.

Police Operation H. Beam Piper 1934

The gauges and dials on the panel, and the levers and switches and buttons on the desk control board, were all lettered and numbered with characters not of the Roman alphabet or the Arabic notation, and, within instant reach of the occupant of the chair, a pistollike weapon lay on the desk.

Police Operation H. Beam Piper 1934