1.   Muskets were swung as clubs, pistols were fired point-blank, and swords flashed and clanged.

2.   Suddenly, Joyce fired his pistol and the battle had begun.

3.   Reeves said he only fired the pistol to frighten the man away.

4.   They waited for a Verey pistol to be fired, like some referee blowing a whistle before hostilities could officially commence.

5.   He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox.

6.   A pistol had been fired into the closet.

7.   Carneal had never fired a pistol before stealing the gun he used that day.

8.   Finally the mugger ran off empty-handed, and a mysterious man emerged and began firing a pistol in the general direction of the fleeing thief.

9.   Firing pistols to end football quarters.