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From the girl's revolver leaped forth a sudden spurt of smoke and flame
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Dean Cornwell
(American, 1892 - 1960)
From the girl's revolver leaped forth a sudden spurt of smoke and flame
Oil on canvas
1919
36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
96.2.2
Purchased with the Museum Volunteers’ Fund, 1996
Not on view
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It came all of a sudden when it did, with a rush of feet and a roar, and then a shout from Alan
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1913
Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
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1916
Headlong he leaped on the Boaster, and, snatching his knife from its scabbard . . .
N.C. Wyeth
1920
On the Way to General Howe's
Anna Whelan Betts
ca. 1899
The Body Was Found Close to the Stable with a Bullet in His Back
Anna Whelan Betts
ca. 1899
The Termagant Throwing back her light vestment, she stretched forth her long skinny arm, in derision
N.C. Wyeth
1919
"Sitting up cross-legged, with each hand holding a gun from which came thin wisps of smoke."
N.C. Wyeth
1906
That Was the Beginning of Our Life with Uncle Jake's Folks
Harvey T. Dunn
1938
Trenton Lads Began to Behave in a Manner So Suspicious to the Girls
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The Golden Maiden
The flames died suddenly away, and out of the vessel there sprang a wonderful image--the image of a beautiful maiden.
N.C. Wyeth
1912
