Lexicographical Neighbors of Deringers
Literary usage of Deringers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1889)
"It ain't to be settled by law-papers, nor shot-guns and deringers. It's suthin'
to be chawed over sociable-like, between drinks. Ef any harm hez bin done, ..."
2. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs by Joaquin Miller (1874)
"... steel across a table, or with little bull-dog deringers around a corner.
Sometimes they have a six-shooter war dance in the streets, ..."
3. Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs by Joaquin Miller (1874)
"They settled their suits with steel across a table, or with little bull-dog
deringers around a corner. Sometimes they have a six-shooter war dance in the ..."
4. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881)
"... among the car-full—though no doubt, to make up for this deficiency, there was
a liberal assortment of deadly weapons, deringers and six-shooters, ..."
5. Chronicles of the Great Rebellion: From the Beginning of the Same Until the by Allen M. Scott (1864)
"Some of the baser sort wore brass knuckles ; others carried repeaters or deringers.
Murders were committed, and assaults were made, and men's hearts failed ..."
6. A History of the New California: Its Resources and People by Leigh Hadley Irvine (1905)
"He was known by his intimate friends to be a dangerous man as a foe, and he always
went armed with a pair of deringers. The Thursday night prior to the ..."
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