"Revolver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Annie gave a piercing scream, and Sam Redfern got up, seizing his revolver. 'Who are you?' he cried, as ...
— The Story of the Treasure Seekers • E. Nesbit
... pointed where, not ten yards away and below, a blacker shadow seemed to move along a hemlock branch. Forgotten now, his wounds. Forgotten his loss of blood, his fever and his weakness. The sight of that creeping stealthy attack nerved him with new vigor. And, even as the girl looked, Stern drew his revolver. ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... the telephone and called the Washington police. When I heard the siren outside, I took out my service revolver and shot him in the throat. He was dead ...
— Pythias • Frederik Pohl
... for nearly five years. Brooks, with a virtuous air, explained in Congress that he had caught Sumner in a helpless attitude because if Sumner had been free to use his superior strength he, Brooks, would have had to shoot him with his revolver. It seems to be hardly an exaggeration to say that the whole South applauded Brooks and exulted. Exuberant Southerners took to challenging Northern men, knowing well that their principles compelled them to refuse duels, but that the refusal would still be humiliating to the North. Brooks ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
... It was wild, wild, like a change of the wind and tide in a storm, everything torn and confused. Then perhaps the word came to go over the top and at them. That was furious. That was fighting with men, for sure—bayonet, revolver, rifle-butt, knife, anything that would kill. Often I sickened at the blood and the horror of it. But something inside of me shouted: 'Fight on! It is for France. It is for "L'Alouette" thy farm; for thy wife, ...
— The Valley of Vision • Henry Van Dyke
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