horse pistol造句

• The Khamti also have firearms which resemble old flint muskets and horse pistols.
• Larger pistols were called horse pistols.
• Some have claimed that it was opened in 1927 and found to contain a broken horse pistol and a lottery ticket.
• The noted duelist who had killed his opponent drew a horse pistol as his speech progressed, producing a resolution to secede 88 for 55 against.
• Dueling pistols were the size of the horse pistols of the late 1700s, around long and were usually sold in pairs along with accessories in a wooden case with compartments for each piece.
• In one instance, McDonald took an editorial battle from the printed page to the office of the " Allegheny Democrat ", where he threatened that paper's editor with a large horse pistol.
• There is a story that while walking in the garden of the High House with the King, Prince Rupert fired two shots through the tail of the weather vane of St Mary's in order to demonstrate the accuracy of a continental Horse Pistol.
• Carbines were short enough to be loaded and fired from horseback, but this was rarely donea moving horse is a very unsteady platform, and once halted, a soldier can load and fire more easily if dismounted, which also makes him a smaller target ( Napoleonic-era and earlier cavalry did fight from horseback, but they fought with sabers and large muzzle-loading " horse pistols ", so called because their large size meant they were most easily carried in a saddle holster, much like the later Colt-Walker revolver ).