blunderbuss

How To Use blunderbuss In A Sentence

• To fire the blunderbuss use the large teardrop-shaped flame template to represent the spread of shot from the gun's barrel.
• Danny Mills may be a heads-down, foot-up skinheaded blunderbuss of a footballer, but he certainly knows how to give the English language a good boot up the fundament to remind it it's in a game.
• And here in Prague, looking down over my newspaper from the terrace of my choice, I seemed to see the spires of the city mass closer together and take on the form of giant jungle trees, the broad Vltava to shrink to the narrow silver thread of a mountain stream at the crossing of which Wun Thu.s sporting warriors had levelled their blunderbusses lashed to trees and warranted harmless to all but the men behind them; the paper told of another rising led by Wun Thu. Wun Thu.had lain "doggo" for many years -- at least he had done nothing to attract the attention of Central Europe -- yet here he was, a man of my age and on the downward slope, following the post-war instinct of making trouble -- for himself chiefly, as his attempt failed. From a Terrace in Prague
• Messengers would travel by stagecoach armed with pistols and blunderbusses, ready to shoot to kill any bandits or highwaymen.
• Unfortunately, it seems the benefits of such a crackdown are again to be obscured by its blunderbuss approach.
• If people can think of better places to call, please let me know, since I realize I'm taking something of a blunderbuss approach here.
• These are highly original thinkers, who have developed a new way of treating cancer by moving away from the blunderbuss cutting-burning-poisoning approach of modern medicine.
• For most of his career, the 69-year-old stage and TV actor has specialised in playing older character parts - more often than not the kind of fearsomely whiskered old coves who look like they'd be pretty handy with a blunderbuss.
• He bought a blunderbuss, two pairs of pistols, and a huge housedog. My Novel — Volume 09
• Winding through this timberland of wind catchers, Ken stops to point out the original seed, the squat "blunderbuss," a ducted turbine installed in 1926 by one Dew Oliver, who raised $12 million for his scheme, but ended up convicted of fraud, though today he would not only be absolved, but crowned a haruspex, the Benjamin Graham of energy pickers. Richard Bangs: How Green Is My Valley?