fusil

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One of the travellers, seeing himself without any thing to do, took his fusil and followed the course of this rivulet, in hopes of killing some game.

From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz

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

Gualpi que dista del anterior un tiro de fusil, es mas grande y populoso que los dos anteriores, puede tener hasta 200 familias.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

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

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