fusil

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C'est donc tout simplement un très modeste fusil de munition adapté a sa taille que j'adresse à votre Majesté pour son auguste et charmant enfant le Prince de Galles, comme ma réponse à sa question.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 Volume 2, 1844-1853 by Benson, Arthur Christopher

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

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

From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

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