Colt Quotes

"You will not find him dead easily. If he has been tipped out of the car, we shall find him rolling as a colt rolls in a field, kicking his legs for fun ." "Clashing his hoofs," said the Professor. "The colts do, and so did Pan ." "Pan again!" said Dr. Bull irritably. "You seem to think Pan is everything ." "So he is," said the Professor, "in Greek. He means everything." "Don't forget," said the Secretary, looking down, "that he also means Panic ."

— G. K. Chesterton, in The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), Ch. XIV : The Six Philosophers

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There was some brilliant use of polymer applied, and the result is a physically large pistol which, with magazine removed, weighs only 20.5 ounces on my scale. That’s less than the weight of a snub-nose colt Detective Special, but depending on the magazine, the Five-seveN carries ten, twenty, or even thirty rounds of 5.7mm, compared to six rounds of .38 Special in the snubbie.

— Massad Ayoob

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Pretty little baby on the cabin floorLittle hoss colt playin' 'round the doorI love the girl with golden hairAnd the Tennessee stud loves the Tennessee mare.

jimmy driftwood

— "Tennessee Stud" (1958)

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From a town known as Wheeling, West Virginia Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand And his daring life of crime made him a legend in his time East and west of the Rio Grande. Well, he started with a bank in Colorado In the pocket of his vest a colt he hid. And his age and his size took the teller by surprise, And the word spread of Billy the Kid.

Billy Joel

— The Ballad of Billy the Kid

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