smoking gun

“You can imagine the sound of that gun on a Bronx street,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce says.

That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?

They were the machine gun bullets coming from the ambush when my company got hit.

Frias—who was arrested in 2013 for interfering with public duties and public intoxication—was not carrying a gun at the time.

He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.

Columbus found the natives of San Salvador smoking after this manner.

When Cortez made conquest of Mexico in 1519 smoking seemed to be a common as well as an ancient custom among the natives.

This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.

In 1629 he found the Hurons smoking the dried leaves and stalks of the Tobacco plant or petune.