mitrailleuse
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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
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 2nd Infantry Division: General Lacretelle. 1st Brigade: General Bernier Maligny. 14th, 20th, and 30th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Marquisan. 3rd and 4th marching regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
And, best of all, thus far no missile from that popping mitrailleuse of the German had done serious damage to the vitals of his plane.
From Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines The German Spy's Secret by Charles Amory Beach
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 4th Infantry Division: General Levassor-Sorval. 1st Brigade: General de Marguenat. 25th and 26th Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General de Chanaleilles. 28th and 70th Line regiments.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
Two 4-pounder, one mitrailleuse battery. 3rd Infantry Division: General Dumont. 1st Brigade: General Bordas. 52nd and 72nd Line regiments. 2nd Brigade: General Bittard des Portes. 82nd and 83rd Line regiments.
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
A portion consisted of donkeys with all the paraphernalia of a soldier strapped to their backs, together with rapid firing mitrailleuses.
From A Journey Through France in War Time by Joseph G. (Joseph Green) Butler
Here they had erected formidable works, and were reported to be hard at work mounting guns and mitrailleuses there.
From A Girl of the Commune by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
At two in the morning all was ready; the long train began to move; the cannon of 7 and the mitrailleuses of Commandant Pothier took the lead.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere
This was accompanied by successive explosions, resembling the discharge of a battery of mitrailleuses.
From The Secret of the Island by William Henry Giles Kingston
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