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"I can't drop him at this distance with a revolver.
Tarvin remounted hastily, and galloped up, revolver in hand, to cover the blanched visage of Juggut Singh.
At that hour Tarvin was sitting in his room at the rest-house, with both doors open to the stifling wind of the desert, that he might command all approaches clearly, his revolver on the table in front of him, and the Naulahka in his pocket, yearning to be gone, and loathing this conquest that did not include Kate.
He stooped down and stirred the man up with the muzzle of his revolver.
Kate hastened to put on her helmet, while Tarvin amused the two princes by allowing them to inspect his revolver, and promising at some more fitting season to shoot as many coins as they should demand.
Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions."
"I will come," said I."Then get your revolver and put on your boots.
A lucky long shot of my revolver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked, and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away.
If this man were inside it I should find out from his own lips, at the point of my revolver if necessary, who he was and why he had dogged us so long.
Throwing aside my cigarette, I closed my hand upon the butt of my revolver and, walking swiftly up to the door, I looked in.
"Come out," said he, "and please be careful with the revolver."
But the next instant Holmes had emptied five barrels of his revolver into the creature's flank.
He also had been in all the battles, in the first rank, revolver in one hand, note-book in the other; grape-shot never made his pencil tremble.
Then, having lighted a lantern, taken a revolver, and placed a cutlass in his belt, he began the descent.
Herbert had, with a shot from his revolver, rescued Neb, on whose back a colpeo had sprung like a tiger cat.
At one moment he advanced so far, that by the light from a revolver he was seen surrounded by five or six large colpeos, with whom he was coping with great coolness.
Ayrton took a revolver from the rack, and assured himself that it was loaded and primed.
He fired his revolver, and two of the convicts fell, but a blow from a knife which he could not ward off made a gash in his shoulder.
Four barrels of the revolver were still undischarged.
Passing before the lantern, he smashed it with a blow from the butt of his revolver.
Had this half-naked man, who had forced the door of the powder-magazine, and with whom they had struggled, who had six times discharged his revolver at them, who had killed one and wounded two others, escaped their shot?
I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick, but I observed that Holmes took his revolver from his drawer and slipped it into his pocket.
On one occasion he actually fired his revolver at a wooden-legged man, who proved to be a harmless tradesman canvassing for orders.
He took out his revolver as he spoke, and, having loaded two of the chambers, he put it back into the right-hand pocket of his jacket.
Holmes had already drawn his revolver, and I whipped out mine at the sight of this savage, distorted creature.
A little further up the road Dawson himself was lying on his face, quite dead, with an empty revolver in his hand and four Sepoys lying across each other in front of him.
Going up to a door he closed it, then with fixed gaze and tightly clenched teeth, approached the table, took up his revolver, examined it, turned it to a loaded chamber, and pondered.
For a minute or two he stood motionless with bowed head, a strained expression of effort on his face, holding the revolver in his hand.
'Of course!' he said again when thought returned a third time to that point in the enchanted circle of memories and ideas; and placing the revolver against the left side of his chest, with a strong movement of his whole hand as if to clench the fist, he pulled the trigger.
He wished to steady himself by the table, dropped the revolver, reeled, and sat down on the floor, looking about him in astonishment.
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