fusil

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Two or three more shots were fired with like effect; and the fusil of Pouchskin was next called into requisition, and brought to bear upon the nest.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

Hiz natral disposishun iz a warm cross between red pepper in the pod and fusil oil, and hiz moral bias iz, “git out ov mi way.”

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

He has now completed the barrel, stock, and mounting of the officer's fusil, and is proceeding on those of the soldier's musket.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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

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