fusil

Example Sentences

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The taste was all that he had anticipated, and melted iron could hardly have been more painful than that first torture of cold, fusil acid.

From The River Prophet by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

Of the fusil Nisbet writes: "The fusil is another Rhombular figure like the lozenge, but more long than broad, and its upper and lower points are more acute than the two side points."

From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Not a cry awoke the solitude—not the flash of a fusil lit up the darkness of the twilight.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

His only arms were a light fusil, which I had given him as a present.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne