And Carlyle was not much more civil when he described a barrister as "a loaded blunderbuss "if you bought him he blew your opponent's brains out; if your opponent bought him he blew yours out.

All had lassoes at their saddles, some had old-fashioned blunderbusses, and nearly every one had a macheta or long bladed Spanish knife.

I have no doubt that Bailey, and the 'mighty blunderbuss of law,' Jacob, wrote ten pages of their respective Dictionaries with more ease than they could have written five pages of poetry.

While halting a few minutes at lower Topechee we fell in with an Uzbeg warrior, a most formidable looking personage, armed, in addition to the usual weapons of his country, with a huge bell-mouthed blunderbuss at least three inches in diameter; the individual himself was peaceably enough disposed, and, contrary to the usual habit of Asiatics, made no objections to our examining the small cannon he carried.