Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paris dispatch says: While handling a revolver at Ville d'Avray, yesterday, M. Gambetta shot himself in the hand. The bullet only traversed the flesh, and he is in no danger...
...fleshy part of the left thigh. The wounded youth exclaimed, "I am shot," and the professor quickly assisted him and led him back to President Folwell's, where he was kindly cared for and a doctor hastily summoned, who pronounced the wound not fatal, and probed for the bullet, but failed to find it. In the morning Paine was conveyed to his father's residence, where he now lies." At last it seems that the vexed question of student government has been settled. Admonitions, summons and suspensions are out of date, and the new and improved plan of faculty-night...
...mechanically draw his revolver from his belt. I would have stopped him, but I could not : my hands and tongue were as if tied. He raised the pistol, aimed it with shaking hand, and fired. The smoke cleared away, and Jackson fell back on me, fainting. Oh, horrors! the bullet had gone clean through the devilish shape, and through the hole the moonlight was shining. A cold shiver ran through me and the perspiration streamed down my face. The figure dilated mockingly, and the arms waved back and forth threateningly, glistening deathly white. The head bowed solemnly. Good Heavens! this...