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
I pointed out to her that nothing more delicate than a mitrailleuse had yet been invented.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
By the time I reach the sidewalk they were moving off, some of the men helping the dogs with the mitrailleuse.
From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
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
"At what range is the head of yonder column?" he asked, addressing the captain in charge of the mitrailleuse section.
From The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"
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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
They usually do, as the majority of German aeronauts carry only rifles; the French now all have mitrailleuses.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
The road had been raked by their mitrailleuses the day before.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair
Altogether the total armament amounts to 40,000 rifles, 104 guns and forty-four mitrailleuses.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill