fusil

Example Sentences

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Avec son grand fusil d’argent En roulant, ma boule!”

From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson

Of the fusil Nisbet writes: "The fusil is another Rhombular figure like the lozenge, but more long than broad, and its upper and lower points are more acute than the two side points."

From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

They were in neat uniform, and each soldier wore a leather helmet, with a crest of horsehair, and carried a fusil.

From "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale by Riker, James

To prevent suspicion, the officer in command had orders to make every sentinel he set or relieved in the night-time fire his fusil and to beat his drum at the usual hour.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

Not a cry awoke the solitude—not the flash of a fusil lit up the darkness of the twilight.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne