Pistols

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

I remember very clearly that he threw two pistols into the river.

The only weapons I have in my home are water pistols.

A young girl was riding upon the horse, with a shining red cap on her head, and pistols in her belt.

Everything was now in an uproar, some calling for their pistols, some for their horses, and some for another flask of wine.

"But they are armed," said I. "And so shall we be, my boy. There's a brace of pistols for every mother's son of us, and if we can't carry this ship, with the crew at our back, it's time we were all sent to a young misses' boarding-school."

A dozen convicts, who descended with their pistols in search of him, found him with a match-box in his hand seated beside an open powder-barrel, which was one of a hundred carried on board, and swearing that he would blow all hands up if he were in any way molested.

"By the way," said he suddenly, "I think I'll take one of these pistols upstairs with me in case we have an alarm."

He had a sword by his side, and pistols in his belt.

This song is written with blood, and not with lead. It's not a song of a bird that's free. A people, between falling walls, sang this song with pistols in their hands.