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  • In Reacher's day the army had wanted the same thing in the 9mm blued-steel version, but the defense department had balked at the cost, which must have been about sixteen times the price of Carmen Greer's eighty-dollar Lorcin.

    Echo Burning Child, Lee 2001

  • The count's breath came quickly, for all that it made his ribs ache beneath his blued-steel armor.

    Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

  • I watched the thin blued-steel needle pass across the top marker for the last time and begin its final circuit.

    The Kobra Manifesto Hall, Adam 1976

  • He dug into a side pocket and brought out a set of very slender blued-steel cuffs and slipped them expertly on my wrists.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

  • It was a blued-steel automatic with a wooden handle.

    The Case of the Dangerous Dowager Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1937

  • It was something to be dreamed of, with its beautiful blued-steel octagon barrel, its gleaming gold-plated locks and its polished stock.

    The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

  • It takes natural aptitude and long practise, whether one is juggling gilded balls or blued-steel revolvers.

    Rimrock Trail 1906

  • The Herr Professor unslung his telescope, set his rifle upright on the moss, and, kneeling, balanced the long spyglass alongside of the blued-steel barrel, resting it on his hand as an archer fits the arrow he is drawing on the bowstring.

    Barbarians 1899

  • On the dresser lay a blued-steel Colt's forty-five and a tight roll of tens and twenties large enough around to belong to the spring rattlesnake-story class.

    Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

  • Standard sights involve a simple blued-steel notch rear and blade front, both of which are drift adjustable.

    unknown title 2009

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