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For a time the enemy was kept at bay without the city, their old-fashioned jezails, or matchlocks, failing to produce much effect.

From John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub by Cholmeley, R. E.

They were armed with jezails and good rifles stolen from our troops, and they had some old cannon—sher bachas as they are called.

From The Broken Road by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Regardless of a heavy artillery fire they stood their ground, and so galled Pollock's troops with sharp discharges from their jezails that it became necessary to send infantry against them.

From The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Forbes, Archibald

There was a few moments’ anxious pause, and, above the hissing rush of the water, the echoing crack, crack, crack of the enemies’ jezails reached their ears, but sounding smothered and far away.

From Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills by Groome, William H. C.

It was whispered later that this unit saw breech-loading rifles for the first time, on board the Elymas, having been more familiar, hitherto, with jezails, jingals, match-locks, flintlocks, and blunderbusses. 

From Cupid in Africa by Wren, P. C.