blued-steel

In Reacher's day the army had wanted the same thing in the 9mm blued-steel version, but the defense department had balked at the cost, which must have been about sixteen times the price of Carmen Greer's eighty-dollar Lorcin.

Echo Burning Child, Lee 2001

The count's breath came quickly, for all that it made his ribs ache beneath his blued-steel armor.

Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

I watched the thin blued-steel needle pass across the top marker for the last time and begin its final circuit.

The Kobra Manifesto Hall, Adam 1976

He dug into a side pocket and brought out a set of very slender blued-steel cuffs and slipped them expertly on my wrists.

Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

It was a blued-steel automatic with a wooden handle.

The Case of the Dangerous Dowager Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1937

It was something to be dreamed of, with its beautiful blued-steel octagon barrel, its gleaming gold-plated locks and its polished stock.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

It takes natural aptitude and long practise, whether one is juggling gilded balls or blued-steel revolvers.

Rimrock Trail 1906

The Herr Professor unslung his telescope, set his rifle upright on the moss, and, kneeling, balanced the long spyglass alongside of the blued-steel barrel, resting it on his hand as an archer fits the arrow he is drawing on the bowstring.

Barbarians 1899

On the dresser lay a blued-steel Colt's forty-five and a tight roll of tens and twenties large enough around to belong to the spring rattlesnake-story class.

Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

Standard sights involve a simple blued-steel notch rear and blade front, both of which are drift adjustable.

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