fusee

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At the very moment that he did so, the dragoons raised their fusees to their shoulders, and fired at once into the midst of the compact mass of people.

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I have only fusees," he said grandly, "but perhaps they will do.

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When Colonel Allen passed the gate, a sentinel snapped his fusee at him, and then retreated under a covered way.

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Armed with a brace of pistols, a fusee, and a blunderbuss, he fought his assailants away from his windows and the door, through which they had followed the retreating sentinel.

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For night signals not less than two torpedoes, two red fusees, and red and white lanterns.

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