fusil

Example Sentences

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"Le fils du roi s'en va chassant, En roulant ma boule, Avec son grand fusil d'argent, Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant."

From Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest by White, Stewart Edward

The smoke of his fusil mingling with the smoke from the chimney, averted suspicion, and with the simple-minded creatures who heard the report and witnessed its effects the whole matter remained a mystery.

From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George

The Zeg-zeg troops had one French fusil, and the Kano force forty-one muskets.

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

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