How To Use Musket In A Sentence

The New York and Liverpool firm that your father belongs to sent on board an honest and peaceable cargo, but there was a good deal of room left in the hold, and the captain filled it up with cannon-balls, musket-bullets, and gunpowder from the English agents of no less a man than General Santa Ahead of the Army
Brent and I had seen to that when we refined her eye at musketry.
The re-enactments by members of the English Civil War Society will feature musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, with the occasional cannon shot.
At the same time three muskets were discharged; and while one ball rattled against the corslet of proof, to the strength of which our valiant Captain had been more than once indebted for his life, another penetrated the armour which covered the front of his left thigh, and stretched him on the ground. A Legend of Montrose
By the late 17th century devices were being developed to fire grenades from the muzzles of flintlock muskets.

‘Boys, do you hear that rattle of musketry and the roar of artillery? ‘he asked his soldiers.
At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him. Excerpt: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The pressed men looked very sulky and angry, and eyed the shore as if even then they longed to jump overboard and swim for it; but the sentry, with his musket, at the gangway was a strong hint that they would have other dangers besides drowning to contend with should they attempt it. True Blue
For seamen, special patterns of musket were introduced and the musketoon, or blunderbuss, became a shipboard weapon useful for discouraging both boarders and putative mutineers.
The bowsprit of the _Pique_ passing over the starboard-quarter of the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, aided by his second lieutenant and two others of his crew, was in the act of lashing the _Pique's_ bowsprit to her capstern, when he was shot by a musket-ball through the heart. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
After decades of producing small arms by hand, by 1842 the armories introduced large-scale assembly of muskets from uniform, interchangeable parts.
‘Indeed my Lady, it was taken from a French musketeer just minutes after I had killed him,’ he swung it in the air several times, watching with a boyish smile as the nuns cringed.
The redcoats inarched with unloaded muskets for the enemy was still a long way off and there was no sign of the Tippoo Sultan's infantry, nor of his feared cavalry. Sharpe's Tiger
One hand was soon cut off with a hatchet, and as he still continued to steer the boat down the stream, he was "quieted" by a musket-shot. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
Costumed residents reenact scenes from the Battle of Puebla, and smoke in the air comes from simulated musket fire. There's a skirmish at every intersection for the annual Cinco de Mayo parade in Mexico City. Costumed residents reenact scenes from the Battle of Puebla, and smoke in the air comes from simulated musket fire. © Donald W. Miles, 2009
Pikemen stood on guard with their 16 feet long weapons and musketeers cleaned their matchlock muskets ready for the later mock battles.
Still the men moved on steadily, resistlessly, until they came within musket range. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
Every confederate soldier gave a loud battle cry and with their muskets, pistols, and sabers raised, they ran toward the Union army.
Kegs of hard cider and spruce beer and perhaps more potent brews are abroach, and behind the haggling and jesting and bustle you may catch the sound of muskets or the whoop of the Indians from afar. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775
Each left his work and ran to his hut, and immediately returned armed with both musket and cartouch box: apparently all the arms in the village were mustered, and all seemed ready for immediate use. A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
This coincided with rapid improvement in firearms, with breech-loading rifles replacing the musket.
Whether or not a musket ball could penetrate armour was dependent on a number of factors, one of which is that firearms in those days did not always fire.
Whether or not a musket ball could penetrate armour was dependent on a number of factors, one of which is that firearms in those days did not always fire.
Inaccurate and dangerous, muskets are not very useful for crime or self-defense.
In mounted combat their prime weapons were bow and arrow and lance rather than the awkward and uncertain trade musket.
Providentially a small barrel of water, a cag of wine, some biscuit, and a few muskets and cartouch boxes, had been thrown into the boat. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
IV. iii.27 (` is rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike] [W: a Maurice-pike] This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unnecessarily of the _rest of a musket. _ by which he makes the hero of the speech set up the _rest_ of a _musket, _ to do exploits with a _pike. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Kirker reached for his big knife, but before he could pull it Call clubbed his arm with his musket—then he clubbed him twice more. The Lonesome Dove Series
Wisconsin patiently worked the shot clock and even led by a point with about 9: 10 remaining before the Musketeers cracked through. USATODAY.com
-- Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners, while we are not allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue. ' Waverley — Complete
Equipped with "a good Queen Anne's musket, plenty of ammunition, a tomahawk, a large cuttoe knife [French, couteau], a Dutch blanket, and no small quantity of jerked beef, The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
The introduction of muskets, as a major item of trade and barter, was the catalyst for the many conflicts which broke out.
Other muskets, like the caliver, were light, and could be fired without the use of a support. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted.
This accident, together with the crazy condition of the ship, which was little better than a wreck, prevented her from getting off to sea, and entangled her more and more with the land, so that the next morning at daybreak she struck on a sunken rock, and soon after bilged and grounded between two small islands at about a musket-shot from the shore. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658. D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
Interestingly the term cocking a gun comes from flintlock muskets of 17th century, the hammer was very ornate and resembled a rooster (a cock). Purplecigar Diary Entry
We had killed an antelope called a hartebeest, and, with our muskets on our shoulders, were running to secure it. Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
The series follows the life of the musketeers as they train at the musketeer's academy in order to protect France's Sun King, who became monarch at the age of five.
The Musketeers' life in Paris was often tumultuous, even if strict discipline continued to reign back at the casern.
To load and discharge a “firelock” flintlock musket required no less than twelve commands that set off eighteen distinct motions. George Washington’s First War
Percussion caps (invented in 1805 but heretofore little used) now replaced flints, but the basic weapon remained a smoothbore musket.
The soldiers formed the celebrated corps of the janissaries (Turkish Yeni cheri, ‘new troops’) These infantrymen took to the use of handguns in the form of arquebuses and, later, the more manageable early forms of musket.
Vast quantities of clothing, gunpowder, pikes, halberds, swords, and muskets poured out of the workshops of the metropolis.
Jules, who had found a sheep-pond in the dark a little lower down, gave what you might call a cinematograph reproduction o 'sporadic musketry. A Diversity of Creatures
The skelp is a piece or bar of iron, about three feet long, and four inches wide, but thicker and broader at one end than at the other; and the barrel of a musket is formed by forging out such pieces to the proper dimensions, and then folding or bending them into a cylindrical form, until the edges overlap, so that they can be welded together. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Here in Massachusetts it used to be you'd be up on charges and maybe find yourself in the stocks if you weren't in your assigned pew on Sunday. of course they'd bonk you on the head if you fell asleep during the sermon (with a special knobbed clonker!) and fine you if you didn't bring a loaded musket! Are we a Christian Nation?
The heavy guns are silent now, but the musketry is pouring on, making ghastly "music in the ear of night. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
In the 17th century, the musketeer and his relatively sophisticated weapon was protected from being ridden down by cavalry by protective screens of pikemen.
Muskets and pikes and sabers lay strewn and forgotten like cut hay.
The first mines were employed in the American Civil War when Confederate forces linked tripwires to musket trigger mechanisms to fire black powder and shrapnel charges with percussion caps.
Muskets, drunken rebels and burning torches: next month marks the bicentenary of one of our bloodiest uprisings
He was the co-writer and dialogist for several French movies, co-dialogist for the French version of ‘The Return of the Three Musketeers’ directed by Richard Lester, and script editor for three French TV series.
The days of a few weeks' drilling and musketry, then off to war, are long gone.
Instead, he saw the men walking calmly, saw them carefully scanning the terrain ahead of them, muskets ready to fire.
Labat claimed that he once subdued a shipful of Spanish desperadoes who were aiming muskets and sabers at him by flourishing a cross worn by officers of the Inquisition. A Traveler's Way With Words
An aborigine looking at a musket is interesting but irrelevant. A Sociological Phenomenon
He engaged in cloak-and-dagger operations for Louis XIII and then for Louis XIV, the Sun King, who appointed him to lead the musketeers in 1658. D'Artagnan Buried in The Netherlands?
Whiting swore, and struggled with him, but the mutineer - a big, black-moustached havildar with a Chillianwallah medal - threw him down and wrested his musket away. Fiancée
I did not slow until one of the soldiers, waving his foraging cap from the jagging bayonet of his musket, ripped me back to the moment. Confederates
Side plates are decorative additions placed on the lateral margins of flintlock muskets opposite the lock plate.
Elchies, a shrivelled atomy with a hirpling walk, leaning heavily upon a rattan, both with the sinister black tri-corne hats in their hands, and flanked by a company of musketeers. Doom Castle
Again, during our late war with Great Britain, of less than three years 'duration, _two hundred and eighty thousand muskets were lost, _ -- the average cost of which is stated at twelve dollars, -- making an aggregate loss, in muskets alone, _of three millions and three hundred and sixty thousand dollars_, during a service of about two years and a half; -- resulting mainly from that neglect and waste of public property which almost invariably attends the movements of newly-raised and inexperienced forces. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
Since they provided their own weapons, the variety was large, from carbines, fowling pieces, buccaneers, muskets and fuzees.
Muskets spanned the transition from matchlock, through wheel lock and flintlock, to percussion.
He also downplays the quality of early muskets, but that too ignores the same reality.
What nerve it must have taken to run into the face of massed musket fire.
The phrase puts me in mind of pub engravings, of rustics in waistcoats lying full-length in rowing boats, poking at ducks with long muskets.
The musketeer-style bumfluff appeared just days after David's.
Many such muskets come with a inherent pintle mount so that they can be braced while standing; it requires a move action to set up the pintle. Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related
A steel ramrod from a musket is a wild whipping thing, and Phil is right -- it kicks like a bronco. Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
On the occasion of the arrestment of the clerk Nikola Pavičić, the musket of an ardito went off and an eye was blown out to Mr. Pavičić. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
The soldiers were hurriedly leaving the scene, their muskets over their shoulders, not even sparing a look back at the panicked crowd.
Yet for all the muskets, bombards, and cannon, Kelly appears more interested in the impact of gunpowder as a technological force driving deeper societal changes.
There are two bartizans on opposite corners of the tower which have holes for muskets.
Surgical History of the Rebellion, "and as yet have failed to find any case of wound or death reported as having occurred by an explosive or poisoned musket ball, excepting that on page 91 of volume II of said work there is a table of four thousand and two (4,002) cases of gunshot wounds of the scalp, _two_ (2) of which occurred by _explosive musket balls_. A Refutation of the Charges Made against the Confederate States of America of Having Authorized the Use of Explosive and Poisoned Musket and Rifle Balls during the Late Civil War of 1861-65
They met the same tempest of shell, grape, canister, and musketry, and recoiled.
For example, an infantryman with a rifled musket was a greater threat to artillerymen and cavalrymen.
A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree.
Old muskets, pistols and sabers were spread everywhere Billy and White Eagle rode.
The partial beard category is divided into natural, Chinese, Imperial, Musketeer, sideburns, and freestyle categories.
In 1841 he entered the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, followed by a commission in the Grenadier Guards where he developed a special interest in musketry.
Needless to state, the firelocks were all "poised" -- whatever that may be -- and, led by Allen, a rush was made, the sentry overpowered, and soon the gallant "83" were standing back to back on the parade-ground within the fort, their muskets levelled at the two barracks which, filled with sleeping soldiers, faced each other. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
The flash of guns and long lines of musket fire could be seen in bright relief against the blue and cloudless sky.
Now and then, volleys of musketry, or a repulse from the Southern batteries on the heights, filled the blue morning sky with belching scarlet flame and smoke: through all, however, the long train of army-wagons passed over the pontoon-bridge, bearing the wounded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
Ney -- the bravest of the brave -- left alone in Russia at the last with seven hundred foreign recruits, men picked from here and there, called in from the highways and hedges to share the glory of the only Marshal who came back from Moscow with a name untarnished -- Ney and Girard, musket in hand, were the last to cross the bridge, shouting defiance at their Cossack foes, who, when they had hounded the last of the French across the frontier, flung themselves down on the bloodstained snow to rest. Barlasch of the Guard
A week later, a larger party of some 200 Maori appeared, this time with spears slung over their backs, and muskets and tomahawks.
Despite common opinion, Hika was not just using the opportunity afforded by his muskets to indulge in predatory larks; he had serious duties to perform for his people.
Someone came forward at a crouching run and laid two charged muskets on the ground beside me; to my astonishment I saw it was Bella Blair - the fat babu I'd seen reading the previous night was similarly arming the riding-master, and the chap on t'other side of me had as his loader a very frail-looking old civilian in a dust-coat and cricket cap. Fiancée
Montmorin knew what was coming, but just then the forward carronade sent a shattering cask of musket balls into the Revenant's belly and belched a pall of smoke above the ship. Sharpe's Trafalgar
Velvet bellows, cushions, muskets, plates, microtonic music plus narghiles or hookahs for a post-prandial smoke of tobacco sweetened with such agents as rose essence.
Later in life he was to portray himself as the Minotaur or a musketeer.
'Bit slower with their muskets and a bit nippier on their feet, but that's all. Sharpe's Regiment
Formations of pikemen repeatedly charged each other; the battle ended when a third army appeared and scattered the others with cannon fire and musketry. Weatherwatch: Puzzling phenomena of sky battles
In that famous clash in Flanders in 1745, aristocratic officers from both the British and French armies strolled between the lines of musketeers, chivalrously inviting the other side to fire first.
Sixteen thousand men were trained daily in musketry. Canada and the Great War
The rebels were not only outnumbered but outclassed in weapons, being themselves heavily dependent upon broadswords and shields while their enemies had muskets and bayonets and above all artillery.
The British were masters of open-field fighting where massed lines of infantry faced one another while using the inaccurate smooth-bore muskets.
One explained it as ` ` to prime, '' as when one primes a musket, from O.Fr. _amorce_, powder for the touchhole (Cotgrave), and the other by ` ` to bite '' (Lat. _mordere_), hence ` ` to indulge in biting, stinging or gnawing thoughts of slaughter. '' Literary Blunders
These famously include: Name one item of clothing worn by the Three Musketeers?
Men in scarlet ran in every direction, some shouldering muskets, others munitions and like paraphernalia.
As soon as they were seen they were met with deadly volleys of musketry, grape, and canister from the Southern defences. Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
It appeared that while his comrades had been attending on Giuseppe, the third Corsican (whom they called Ste, or Stephanu) had filled up his time by rifling our camp; and of all our possessions he had chosen to select our half-dozen spare muskets and a burst coffer, from which he now extracted and (for his comrade's admiration) held aloft our chiefest treasure -- the Iron Crown of Corsica. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
It looks like the Three Musketeers are slowly exiting stage left. Times, Sunday Times
endwise" by Mr. Hurley's practised fists after Hayne was struck down by the corporal's musket. The Deserter
I tried to sleep, but the echo of the musket fire woke me from my light slumber and pierced my heart with panic.
He worked with all sorts of obscure people; and above all with Mirepoix, sublieutenant of the Black Musketeers, to find out Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
The newcome Reds took all the muskets away from the gun-toters, and then led them off into the woods. He Don't Know Him
The enemy opened with musketry and cannon, but the column went on, sweeping down the _abattis_, making use of it to aid in effecting a passage of the deep ditches and to gain a footing on the berme of the earthworks. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
Early musketeers, of the late 16th and early 17th century, were noted not only for the flamboyance of their dress but also as élite foot soldiers, armed with the latest in death-dealing technology, the matchlock.
It teaches you just how long a man can carry a musket in one position without overfatigue, just how hard it is to keep awake on sentry duty after an exhausting day's march. Public Speaking
It seemed that an American retreating from the confrontation had tripped the switch on his musket.
The flintlock reigned supreme as a system throughout the 18th century and flintlock muskets, also referred to as ‘firelocks ', were the infantry's principal weapons in most European nations.
Let them touch me that daur," he cried, taking up and carefully loading the same old musket with which he had shot the dog. Stories of the Border Marches
The muskets, when carried by the men on the journey, are marked each with a label corresponding to the rack where it is to stand in the ship. Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900
The rifle kicked against his shoulder and the thundering of musket fire grew louder.
At this tempting sight, the king forgot alike perceptor, guards, and Gray Musketeers. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental
They want to dominate Europe by bureaucratic cleverness where they could not do so by muzzle-loading cannon, muskets and cavalry sabers.
She held a musket and fired several shots, each hitting their marks.
The officer commanding it stopped the ambassador and the linguister and let the soldiers go on at a round trot toward the great gate, which stood open, the bayonet on the musket of the sentry shining with an errant gleam of light like the sword of fire at the entrance of Paradise. The Frontiersmen
Aquatic habitats include freshwater (lakes, rivers, streams, muskets, and freshwater marshes) and marine (intertidal and neritic zones, estuaries, fjords and upper inlets). Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, United States
The first thing which struck me forcibly was, that each of these savages was armed with a good musket, and most of them had also a cartouch box buckled round their waists, filled with ball cartridges, and those who had fired their pieces from the canoes carefully cleaned the pans, covered the locks over with a piece of dry rag, and put them in a secure place in their canoes. A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827
France is peopled with patriots in red caps and tricoloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, sullen and suspicious, who instinctively curse all aristocrats.
Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.
The buff coat was a standard piece of clothing for both the foot soldier and and the cavalryman. It offered moderate protection against blows from swords, but was ineffective against musket fire.
For the next 50 years breech-loading muskets and rifles were made in England as sporting guns.
Outside Stromness I walked the marshes where as a boy John Rae rambled with a musket on his shoulder, and in Kirkwall I visited the explorer's memorial in St Magnus Cathedral, and his grave site behind that edifice.
These flamboyant Turkish uniformed troops also had muskets with bayonets of this form, and a number of yataghan blade bayonets appeared for both U.S. and Confederate forces.
The horsemen had short-barrelled muskets thrust into bucket holsters on their saddles.
The actors create a relaxed chemistry together as they veer between the solidarity of the three musketeers and the dimwitted fumbling of the three stooges.
Le_Dauncer brought over a gorgeous Tokay (apparently to musket, what musket is to port …) it was so smooth and dreamy – perfect for chocolate! October 6th, 2004
He has a musket, bullets, gunpowder, carpentry tools, clothes, bedding and a Bible.
We pass her within twenty yards, and again the expected volley of musketry is wanting. Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
Inaccurate and dangerous, muskets are not very useful for crime or self-defense.
A blatter of musketry was opened on them, and they too had to give up the attempt and return. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry , the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Yet this ignoble war between barbarous tribes whom it has long been the fashion to pet, this poor scuffle between the breechloader and the Birmingham trade musket, may yet in one sense do good. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Where the sun falls aslantwise under the arch a sentinel, with musket and bayonet, paces to and fro in the entrance, and other soldiers lounge close by. Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
Some sagacious musketeers wore metal skullcaps, called ‘secrets’, beneath their hats.
Disturbed by the noise, he scared off the invaders single-handed armed with a musket and then proceeded to defuse the explosives.
I got my musket, and Tommy Staytape armed himself with the goose -- a deadly weapon, whoever may get a clour with it -- and Benjie took the poker in one hand, and the tongs in the other; and out we all marched briskly, to make the Frenchman, that was locked up from the light of day in the coal-house, surrender. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
The muskets of the marines and the half-fike of the sergeant came to the present in the beautiful movements of the prescribed drill. Hornblower And The Hotspur
IV. iii.27 (` is rest to do more exploits with his mace than a morris pike] [W: a Maurice-pike] This conjecture is very ingenious, yet the commentator talks unnecessarily of the _rest of a musket. _ by which he makes the hero of the speech set up the _rest_ of a _musket, _ to do exploits with a _pike. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Instead, Mr. Richert and his son Nicholas took the key roles in the contemporized Three Musketeers tale. Here's Lookin' At You
The boys instantly obeyed; but being closely pursued by the natives, the cockswain of the pinnace, to whom the charge of the boats was committed, fired a musket over their heads. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear. Fiancée
They met the same tempest of shell, grape, canister, and musketry, and recoiled.
It was used, by armies led by aristocrats against longbows, rifled muskets, and even by a King of Sparta, who, when shown the huge dart from then new catapult weapons exclaimed “woe to the virtuous, ... all valor is now vanquished, and cowards shall rule better men”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare, the CIA, and Charlie Savage’s NYT Article
Eliminating the match speeded up fire-drill significantly, but it also allowed the musketeers to be packed far more closely in their units.
He had hit Sharpe with the heavy brassbound butt of a musket and he was amazed that Sharpe's skull was not broken. Sharpe's Fortress
What Montaigne did not like about the musket is that is separated men from one another and distracted them from the real purpose of fighting. Armor and the Man « So Many Books
They all protect the young king, who lives vicariously through the musketeers ' exploits.
The sentry called for help and was soon joined by eight soldiers who formed a semicircle and tried to keep the crowd at bay with their loaded muskets and fixed bayonets.
In the firearms field, flintlock smoothbore muskets gave way to percussion-capped, rifled muskets.
Page 316 musket in hand until it was shattered by one of Alexander's shells, and with the fragments was Alexander Webb's crownpiece. Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,
Dumas's three musketeers are archetypal Gascons.
The cartridges fired by these early breech-loaders were lacking in power when compared to muskets.
Soon, scuffles broke out, spears were thrown, and muskets discharged.
[54] The fusee was a fire-lock musket with an immense bore, from which either slugs or balls could be shot, although not with any great degree of accuracy. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
One explained it as "to prime," as when one primes a musket, from O.Fr. amorce, powder for the touchhole (Cotgrave), and the other by "to bite" (Lat. mordere), hence "to indulge in biting, stinging or gnawing thoughts of slaughter. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
The firepower of an infantry company was increased by a third as the pikemen were phased out and issued with muskets and bayonets.
A musket, lad, and fifty-and-five others in the corner yonder and all serviceable, which is well. Martin Conisby's Vengeance
A 6-year-old girl with musket is dressed to celebrate el Cinco de Mayo in Mexico City. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
Yet I still felt muddled, as the breastwork became more defined in the clouds of smoke from the firing of muskets.
The Jacobites stood the fire for some time before charging, being decimated by grape and musket shot.
A blinding flash illuminated the darkness, and the terrible discharge of musketry resounded through the woods.
The Militia Act of 1792, signed by George (The Communist) Washington, mandated (unfunded) that nearly every “free able-bodied white male citizen” between 18 and 45 “provide himself with a good musket or firelock, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints, and a knapsack, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges, …” Think Progress » Romney Struggles To Distance RomneyCare From ObamaCare: Ours Was ‘Bipartisan’
How the conoidal bullet and rifled barrel, opposed at Inkermann to the antiquated Russian musket, tore through the dense columns which had forced their way to the brow of the plateau, driving the stolid Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
Recall also that the three musketeers are fallen idols, prototypes of the grizzled gunslingers found in so many Westerns.
The column, forced to retreat, remained massed in the street, unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible discharge of musketry.
Here, that's not the way, swaddy, "he continued, joining the two soldiers, who, each still holding his musket in his hand, were fumbling awkwardly with the long ladder in carrying it across the yard. The New Forest Spy
Men from the regiment gave military displays and demonstrated how to load muskets.
A soldier sitting at the foot of the bridge pushed himself upright and picked up his musket.
Thus was inaugurated that roll of musketry which is likely to remain without a parallel, at least in the length of time it lasted. Reminiscences of the Civil War
Muskets and pikes and sabers lay strewn and forgotten like cut hay.
This is a man who operates on himself, removing a musket ball, and then goes on a 10 mile trek across the rocky lengths of one of the Galapagos islands.
The musket also ended the dominance of the armored knights on horseback.
All auxiliary arrangements, such as palisades, abattis, &c., should be defended with the utmost obstinacy; the longer the enemy is held in check by these obstacles, the longer will he be exposed to the grape and musketry of the main work. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
thunder and lightning" (as they termed the musketry) drove them back. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
Melee: Pistols may be used as saps and muskets as clubs in melee combat, but they are reasonably fragile and whenever you roll a natural 1 on the attack roll the weapon is broken. Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related
For example, you use lumber for buildings and ships, iron ore for cutlasses and muskets, and sugarcane for rum.
France is peopled with patriots in red caps and tricoloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, sullen and suspicious, who instinctively curse all aristocrats.
Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute's warning.
They shouldered responsibility, faith and idealism along with muskets, carbines and courage.
A steel ramrod from a musket is a wild whipping thing, and Phil is right -- it kicks like a bronco. Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses
The Allies' superior musketry, with artillery support, eventually broke the French infantry which retreated in considerable disorder.
A blinding flash illuminated the darkness, and the terrible discharge of musketry resounded through the woods.
Providentially a small barrel of water, a cag of wine, some biscuit, and a few muskets and cartouch boxes, had been thrown into the boat. Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791
The soldiers according to custom levelled their muskets and fired; but how great was the surprise, when the cloud of smoke dispersed, and it was discovered that the zambo had vanished. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
Then suddenly, he pulled the pinchers out, and in their serrated grasp was a perfectly round lead musket ball.
I did so and on the morning of the 27th, Sunday, I was awakened about 1/2 past 3 with musketry and cannon shots close by.
Both parties obeyed the order; Amyas dropped down behind the stockade in time to let a caliver bullet whistle over his head; and the Spaniards recoiled as the narrow face of the stockade burst into one blaze of musketry and swivels, raking their long array from front to rear. Westward Ho!
The introduction of the rifled musket in the 1850s with ranges greater than canister altered the role of field artillery.
So powerful was the result that Chepstow continued in use until 1690, being finally adapted for cannon and musketry after an epic Civil War siege.
At an early hour the whole line advanced to within short musketry range, in substantially the same order as on the previous day. History of the Nineteenth Army Corps
The redcoats fell as they ran, musket fire and cannon booms sweeping out the men successfully.
Kennedy adds that the "jamb" in the French was so thick that the men could not bring down their arms or level a musket, and the Dragoons rode in the intervals between their formation, reaching forward with the stroke of their long swords, and slaying at will. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
The whole crew appeared consecutively on deck, loading old muskets and pistols, brandishing cutlasses; a few were already busy heaving the cumbersome cannons from their storage unit.
Beginning in 1795 and 1801, respectively, these armories manufactured muskets based upon a .69-caliber French 1777 design.
The firepower of an infantry company was increased by a third as the pikemen were phased out and issued with muskets and bayonets.

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