We dashed at them Pistoling some and cutting down others; but not until half their number lay dead on the ground or desperately wounded did they attempt to escape; by which time the main body were almost up to us.
"Adventures in the Far West"
W.H.G. Kingston
For that matter, I was regarded as already ended when they tore my assailant from my body and shattered him to death with their hatchets and knives, Pistoling him again and again while he still quivered in the long grass.
"Cardigan"
Robert W. Chambers