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

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

His only arms were a light fusil, which I had given him as a present.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

To prevent suspicion, the officer in command had orders to make every sentinel he set or relieved in the night-time fire his fusil and to beat his drum at the usual hour.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

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

From The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Hough, Emerson