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- verb Present participle of
pistol .
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Examples
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Anytime you can have a botched assassination attempt go completely wrong only to work in your favor such as sliding off the side of building and using “rope” a funny moment for fans who remember the importance of rope to bust through a window to then slide on your knees, double pistoling while riddling bad guys with bullets!
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‘If he was to talk of pistoling ’em all, I should be obliged to say,
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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A part of them ran to the gun room and secured the arms and ammunition, pistoling or cutting down all such as stood in their way or offered opposition; the other party burst into the great cabin at the heels of Pierre le Grand, found the captain and a party of his friends at cards, set a pistol to his breast, and demanded him to deliver up the ship.
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The last of these, at Folkestone Court, in May, was remarkable for the cold-blooded pistoling of the page, who surprised the masked and solitary burglar.
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A part of them ran to the gun room and secured the arms and ammunition, pistoling or cutting down all such as stood in their way or offered opposition; the other party burst into the great cabin at the heels of
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882
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A part of them ran to the gun room and secured the arms and ammunition, pistoling or cutting down all such as stood in their way or offered opposition; the other party burst into the great cabin at the heels of Pierre le Grand, found the captain and a party of his friends at cards, set a pistol to his breast, and demanded him to deliver up the ship.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882
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Why, truly, in the very track most proper for execution of his design, and pistoling the first of the king's subjects who ventures to question his intentions. ''
The Waverley 1877
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We dashed at them pistoling some and cutting down others; but not until half their number lay dead on the ground or desperately wounded did they attempt to escape; by which time the main body were almost up to us.
Adventures in the Far West William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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'If he was to talk of pistoling 'em all, I should be obliged to say, "Certainly -- serve 'em right."'
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841
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If I've smashed your panels, or done you any injury, I am willing to pay for repairs, and make as much apology as one man has any right to expect from another; or, if it will be a greater ease to your mind, we'll off coats, ring for Shrimp and Harry Oaklands 'boy to see fair play, and have it out on the spot, all snug and comfortable; but no pistoling work, thank ye.'
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835
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