pistol-shot

Also, he was assisted by a thick leather belt, three inches wide and a yard in length, with which he always rode and which, on occasion, could come down on the naked back of a stooping coolie with a report like a pistol-shot.

THE CHINAGO 2010

But a scurry of moccasins and loud cries, rounded off with a pistol-shot, interrupted the discussion.

The Men of Forty-Mile 2010

But a scurry of moccasins and loud cries, rounded off with a pistol-shot, interrupted the discussion.

The Men of Forty Mile 2010

That diabolical thing cut through the air with a noise like a steam whistle, so fast that you couldn't see it; there was a crack like a pistol-shot, a fearful, choked scream of agony, and then the Cossack was snaking it back for another blow.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

They had not proceeded a pistol-shot from the place where they parted, when a short turning brought them in front of an old mouldering gateway, whose heavy pinnacles were decorated in the style of the seventeenth century, with clumsy architectural ornaments; several of which had fallen down from decay, and lay scattered about, no further care having been taken than just to remove them out of the direct approach to the avenue.

Redgauntlet 2008

I bent down and was all too aware of the pistol-shot cracking of my joints.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

This was especially the case where three or four of them stretched their arms over a deep gully, through which winded the horse-path to Shaws – Castle, at a point about a pistol-shot distant from the Buck-stane.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

At last, he had grown impatient, and, sure that there was a nest there, sure of being in “luck,” having recognized many of the ruffians who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting for the pistol-shot.

Les Miserables 2008

Darsie started in his saddle, as if he had received a pistol-shot.

Redgauntlet 2008

“Ay, ay, sir!” and on they went, closing fast with the Spaniard, till within a pistol-shot.

Westward Ho! 2007