mitrailleuse
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This was a crack mitrailleuse company of Brussels.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
Jack fumbled for the fastenings of the airplane mitrailleuse, it being his intention to swing the gun free, so that he could turn its 135 muzzle in any quarter desired.
From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Charles Amory Beach
After which came a volley of low toned Latin phrases, rattling in the stillness like the popping of a mitrailleuse.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen Newbold La Motte
But in time of actual war its personnel was less mixed, and Chapman's letters showed him serving there contentedly as pointer of a mitrailleuse.
From Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
The two Westphalian regiments advanced steadily under the storm of shell and mitrailleuse fire till they suddenly reached the edge of a deep ravine hitherto unseen.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Jackie, my lad," he said, "no more from this good lady the day—get up the mitrailleuses.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Perraud of the same regiment, having noticed that the soldiers of a section of men upon whom his mitrailleuses were firing were wearing red trousers, ordered the firing to cease.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
The number of cannon and mitrailleuses taken was very considerable, amounting to some hundreds.
From The Insurrection in Paris by Davy (An Englishman)
And now, nearer than they could have believed, the crash of volley firing mingled with the whirring crackle of gatlings and the spattering rattle of Montigny mitrailleuses from the Guard artillery.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
