Sentence examples for gunslinger from inspiring English sources

Forensic experts have determined that the gun used belongs to one of them, a convicted killer a woman known as "Pepita the gunslinger".

These boxes were fiercely guarded by an armed company agent, as many stagecoach bandits discovered to their detriment; the legendary gunslinger Wyatt Earp was one such guard.

Siegel rebounded wth The Shootist (1976), an elegiac western that was the last film made by John Wayne, who played a gunslinger dying of cancer; Wayne would die from cancer-related complications in 1979.

Sundance Kid, byname of Harry Longabaugh, or Longbaugh (born 1870, Phoenixville, Pa., U.S. died 1909?, Concordia Tin Mines, near San Vicente, Bolivia?), American outlaw, reputed to be the best shot and fastest gunslinger of the Wild Bunch, a group of robbers and rustlers who ranged through the Rocky Mountains and plateau desert regions of the West in the 1880s and '90s.

A revenge-driven cowboy (Arthur Kennedy) wangles an invitation to the hideout from a gunslinger (Mel Ferrer), leading to romance and then violence.

After appearing on the series Medic (1954 56), he was cast as Paladin, a onetime army officer who becomes a San Francisco-based professional gunslinger during the 1870s, in the classic television western Have Gun Will Travel.

He attended the University of Texas in Austin, and while there he performed onstage and learned to ride horses, a talent that would come into play in his later gunslinger roles.

He evinced a disciplinarian principal in Lean on Me (1989), a hard-hearted Civil War soldier in Glory (1989), and an aging gunslinger in Unforgiven (1992).

This incident added to his fame as a gunslinger, which skyrocketed when journalist and later explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley reported as fact in the New York Herald in 1867 Hickok's exaggerated claim that he had killed 100 men.

Some are already writing the political obituary of heavyweight gunslinger Lord Patten, ahead of his appearance before the Public Accounts Committee, chaired by Margaret Hodge, to answer questions about what he did and didn't know about the corporation's severance payment scandal.

Jeff Bridges is not as large of girth as Wayne, and his dialogue delivery verges on the inaudible but his Rooster Cogburn is still wonderful: part Falstaff, part the Dude and part one-eyed gunslinger.