McKelvie grabbed a horse-pistol from among his kegs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

One carried a bell-mouthed horse-pistol, the other a cudgel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Regiment]

YooperJack; Forget that old 1911 horse-pistol Get yourself a Glock 21 in 45ACP.    From Wordnik.com.  [David E.] Reference

We saw a fox in the wood, and Senhor Jorge tried to shoot it with the old horse-pistol, but failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton] Reference

One more man appeared at the clerk's door: he was a powerful fellow with a horse-pistol and a stone-hammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference

Then he picked up his dag his horse-pistol his sword, and his dagger, and was ready to face the Queen's enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Another had a horse-pistol, taking a rifle cartridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea's Fight for Freedom] Reference

Immediately between the silver candle-sticks lay a horse-pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthony Lyveden] Reference

He cocked his huge horse-pistol, and took aim directly from below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times] Reference

He had a stick in one hand and an old-fashioned horse-pistol in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Porter and His Rivals or, The Chums and Foes of Oak Hall] Reference

Alexander Pop, the latter carrying a horse-pistol of the old-fashioned variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover Boys in Camp or, The Rivals of Pine Island] Reference

But each grasped his rusty Queen's-arm musket and bell-mouthed horse-pistol with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

The horse-pistol was in the saddle-bag on the pack-burro that fed forward with the flock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spring o' the Year] Reference

It was the double report from a huge, old-fashioned horse-pistol that Tom Dillon carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Porter in the Gold Fields The Search for the Landslide Mine] Reference

A horse-pistol was fired three times, and these reports brought them into the encampment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference

Kelly Eyre, Horan, and I harnessed up; Grigg stood guard over the props with a horse-pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

Uhlan wheeled his horse straight through a bed of geraniums and fired his horse-pistol at me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maids of Paradise] Reference

She gave me my sabre and Keith his horse-pistol, and we are very grateful indeed for these favours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rising of the Moon]

A man gave me a huge horse-pistol, and with this I sallied forth to take part in the common defence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference

The firing of a huge horse-pistol by Harvey seemed to aggravate rather than soothe the animal's feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill] Reference

In one hand she bore a bedroom candlestick; in the other, with the steadiness of a dragoon, a horse-pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference

He could hold a musket with one hand and shoot with precision as easily as other men did with a horse-pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington]

He went to examine the holsters, and found that each of them contained a large horse-pistol with a flintlock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ahead of the Army] Reference

A few of them had pistols -- the common horse-pistol -- a weapon of little real utility under any circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I] Reference

And so the family firelocks and rusty swords, the horse-pistol and old scythes of our fathers thought terribly at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Union Speaker] Reference

She looked round her, and her eyes fell upon the old horse-pistol which rested on a couple of hooks over the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queen Hildegarde] Reference

Tammie's horse by the bridle, as the other one held his horse-pistol to my nose, and bade me stop in the King's name!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference

You keep close in the house, "he continued," and if any one disturbs you just use the old horse-pistol in the top bureau drawer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays] Reference

After line 33, 1856 reads “The Year! of These States, the weapons that year began with, scythe, pitch-fork, club, horse-pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes, 80–89] Reference

Behind them slouched Tall Tom with his rifle and Dolph and Rube, each with a huge old-fashioned horse-pistol swinging from his right hip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come] Reference

Kinney, presiding, held in his hand, in lieu of a gavel, and considered much more impressive, a Civil War relic known as a “horse-pistol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3] Reference