By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

Curt was holding Jess's gun in his left hand.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

The beaming ROK was carrying a thirty-caliber machine gun ; ;

That was when the gun went off.

and I know that I, myself, was nauseated with apprehension and fear and that my hands were soaking wet where they held my gun.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

Bobby Joe took a gun from behind the door, and with a quick `` Bye now '' was gone for the day.

It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.

Then he was to co-ordinate his fire with a radar-controlled shore gun firing white tracers.

He was going to be sensible and not try to do anything rash with that gun pointed at him.

There was something phony about all this gun waving -- something not quite what it seemed in the detailed directions for finding the police.

Shayne stepped back to let him slump to the ground, and then dived over him through the open door into Harris who was cursing loudly and trying to drag a gun from a shoulder holster, somewhat impeded by the steering wheel.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

The important thing was that Burton had gone somewhere to meet a blackmailer with a gun in his pocket.

And that gun was empty.

Maybe he only intended to scare the blackmailer, whoever he was, in which case an unloaded gun would be good enough.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

So was the gun.

" He then walked calmly into the courthouse, was threatened with a gun, and turned back, " but without hastening a step ", according to Higginson.

The primary German assault gun was the Sturmgeschütz III ( StuG III ).

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

But her conscious need was to break away from constricting patterns of form, a need to let the experience shape itself.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

There was a new Pope and the Vatican was making itself heard and felt these days.

The first dilemma was the morality of nuclear warfare itself.

Another question that arose was the nature of the dialogue itself.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

He was crouched over his anvil in the courtyard getting his chisels into trim, when a splinter of steel flew into his eye and imbedded itself in his pupil.

The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

The cake was received in a stunned silence that was evidence in itself of the dearth of taste thrills Mama had been providing.

The nest itself, the structure that in some cases housed about 2,000 individuals when the season was at its peak, is now rapidly destroyed by the scavenging larvae of certain beetles and moths.

In establishing criterion measurements, it was therefore thought best to broaden the scope beyond the reading act itself.

Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.

The result was an agreement that the Lublin Government should be `` reorganized on a broader democratic basis with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from the Poles abroad '', and pledged to hold `` free and unfettered elections as soon as possible on the basis of universal suffrage and secret ballot ''.

The new Council was itself inescapably of political meaning, which was most clearly revealed in the absence of any U.N.F.P. members and the presence of several Istiqlal leaders.