fusil

Example Sentences

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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

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 Major, Charles

The voice went on imperturbably:   "Avec son grand fusil d'argent,   En roulant ma boule,   Visa le noir, tua le blanc,   Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant."

From The Call of the North by White, Stewart Edward

Warned by what they had witnessed, the Indians had retired beyond even the range of the Serjeant’s fusil.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

Ung petit tableau d'ivoire, � ung vieux personnaige pourtant la thoison d'or les quatres coins dudit tableau d'argent dor� et sur ung chacun ung fusil pendant � une petites chaine d'argent.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.