fusil
Example Sentences
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I took my fusil and pouch, according to my custom of never travelling without them.
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 Mayne Reid
This hesitation vanished, and, placing my tomahawk and fusil upon the ground, I prepared to leap.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
As for the difference between the lozenge and fusil, I could multiply opinions and examples, but hope those given will be sufficient.
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
The Zeg-zeg troops had one French fusil, and the Kano force forty-one muskets.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
