air gun

Historical Examples of air gun

• (firing off the last word as if it were a ball from an air-gun).

  Little Dorrit

  Charles Dickens

• "Here's your fishing-rod," she said, when I had released them and she had passed me my air-gun.

  Stories By English Authors: Italy

  Various

• Punch and Judy, and the man with the air-gun and conspicuous mark, are also present.

  Foot-prints of Travel

  Maturin M. Ballou

• And so it happened that when the time came for him to return to Weston, he took the air-gun with him.

  Dr. Jolliffe's Boys

  Lewis Hough

• "An air-gun would have made as much noise as a revolver," he said.

  The Master Mummer

  E. Phillips Oppenheim