The Baker Rifle lies in the snow, still at half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

Son pulled back the hammer of his rifle to half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference

So far all you have are a series of half-cock platitudes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independence or bust?] Reference

Going off half-cock simply plays into the hands of the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

She's not a dog that goes off at half-cock, not without cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

But yet another half-cock game of hunt the boodle dragging out week after week?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The BBC Trust is dancing to the Tory tune, but the talent won't] Reference

Thus the criticism of the unthinking -- of the laymen who went off at half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference

But if we go off half-cock, and get killed or something - well, that won't get the news to Raglan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sky Writer] Reference

Reich leaped to his feet, bow ready, a featherless arrow at half-cock, and peered intently into the darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference

"Yes, but Americans're erratic, one general can go off at half-cock, and they can smash us off the face of the earth.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

I find them useless, if there must be a manual safety in place of the half-cock I guess the tang safety is a better choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best (and Worst) Shotgun Safeties] Reference

Hugh picked up the heavy revolver in his hand, pulled back the hammer on half-cock, and rolled the cylinder across his palm.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference

He could hear the Mexicans by the fire talking now, and he put his thumb over the heavy hammer and pulled it back to half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [TWO FOR TEXAS] Reference

Whatever motivated her to stab Stephen Timms existed in her mind long before 9/11 or the half-cock occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roshonara Choudhry: a sad and misguided case] Reference

I didn't take the picture, but I am very excited half cocked, really to see my Oakland neighborhood represent in the half-cock picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [BSNYC Friday Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune!] Reference

I heard the hammer of one revolver click to half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim]

"I've waited too long for this, to go off at half-cock now.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of the Primitive] Reference

The hammer can be set to safety on the half-cock by means of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain] Reference

He saw Stacy not thirty yards before him with his rifle at half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Partners] Reference

He grew nervous, cocked the trigger, then put it back to half-cock again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turtles of Tasman] Reference

I would hate to have queered myself, you know, by going off at half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [August First] Reference

Because he was ashamed and hated himself, his temper was always at half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Toys] Reference

It's moor coomfortable wi 'me, and it's main dangersome to handle on the half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference

Scientists solve half-cock chicken mystery photo: Creative Commons/Pulmonary Pathology.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Bank of America to Offer Home Loan Writedowns] Reference

He lowered the trigger to half-cock and drew on his mitten to keep the trigger hand warm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morganson's Finish] Reference

He lowered the trigger to half-cock, and drew on his mitten to keep the trigger-hand warm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turtles of Tasman] Reference

"I've been a fool, I admit that, but Rachael has no cause to go off at half-cock, this way!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Rachael] Reference

Sorry, as a commie, I went off a bit half-cock at what I thought was another Right-wing rant.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

Scientists solve half-cock chicken mystery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nothing To Do With Arbroath] Reference

Tennesseean's pistol stopped at half-cock.    From Wordnik.com.  [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference