fusil
Example Sentences
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Warned by what they had witnessed, the Indians had retired beyond even the range of the Serjeant’s fusil.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
Two or three more shots were fired with like effect; and the fusil of Pouchskin was next called into requisition, and brought to bear upon the nest.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist
Alexis, meanwhile, had dropped his rifle and taken up the fusil of Pouchskin.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist
On the long and narrow fusil it would be impossible.
From Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
Immediately Sir George and Guild, accompanied by a servant who was with them, started in pursuit of the intruder, and a moment afterward Dorothy heard her father's voice and the discharge of the fusil.
From Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall by Major, Charles
