fusil
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At any hour of the day or night they are ready for battle: they tend their cattle on horseback, lance in hand, fusil in sling, and sabre in belt.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
One of the travellers, seeing himself without any thing to do, took his fusil and followed the course of this rivulet, in hopes of killing some game.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
This hesitation vanished, and, placing my tomahawk and fusil upon the ground, I prepared to leap.
From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Charles Brockden Brown
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 Charles Major
Lozenge, a four-cornered figure, differing from the fusil, being shorter and broader.
From Notes and Queries, Number 195, July 23, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell
