 | Arthur Grove Day - 1991 - 284 strani
...OF BAD LUCK ON THE 23D OF NOVEMBER, 1850, AND HANDED IN HIS CHECKS ON THE 7TH OF DECEMBER, I 8 50. And pulseless and cold, with a derringer by his side...and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat. AMBROSE BERCE The Secret ofMacarger's Gulch Master of the witty, cynical, and horrible, Bierce (1842-1914?)... | |
 | Frank Norris - 1996 - 670 strani
...JOHN OAK-HEARSE, who was too much of a gentleman to play a Royal-flush against a Queen-full. And so, pulseless and cold with a Derringer by his side and a bullet in his brain, though still calm as in life lay he who had been at once the pest and WRITINGS OF FRANK MORRIS... | |
 | Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 strani
...discover that Piney and the Duchess have frozen to death and Oakhurst has shot himself. The story ends: "And pulseless and cold, with a Derringer by his side...and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat. " — from "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" Oakhurst was the strongest because he sacrificed himself to... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 2000 - 516 strani
...OAKHURST, WHO STRUCK A STREAK OF BAD LUCK ON THE 23D OF NOVEMBER 1850, AND HANDED IN HIS CHECKS ON THE 7TH DECEMBER, 1850. And pulseless and cold, with a Derringer...and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat. Tennessee's Partner I do not think that we ever knew his real name. Our ignorance of it certainly never... | |
 | Jan Burke - 2003 - 465 strani
...with John Oakhurst in it?" He smiled. "Yes. John Oakhurst. He pins the deuce of clubs to a tree—'at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat.' " I didn't understand the quote and was about to ask him what it meant, but Frank was calling him to... | |
 | 1901 - 1042 strani
...OAKHURST, WHO HAD A STREAK OF BAD LUCK ON THE 230 OF NOVEMBER, 1850, AND HANDED IN His CHECKS ON THE 7TH OF DECEMBER, 1850. And pulseless and cold, with a Derringer...though still calm as in life, beneath the snow lay John Oakhurst, he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat.... | |
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And pulseless and cold, with a Derringer by his side and a bullet in his heart, though still calm as in life, beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat. 
