23 Words to use with musket

This is attributed to the fact that the officers were injured by rifle-balls, being picked out by the marksmen, while the soldiers were injured by cannon- and musket-balls and shells, which inflict more deadly injuries.

His sword had already dealt with two of the foe, and was again uplifted, when a musket shot, fired at close quarters, severed an artery; and the work on earth of this gallant man was over.

One of these was a man named Lee, "a corporal and a deserter from the Tyger, who pledged himself to the enemy that he would throw two shells out of three into the Tyger, but whilst he was bringing the mortars to bear for that purpose, he was disabled by a musket bullet from the Kent's tops.

XXXIII Two days after a cab with a musket barrel protruding from either window stopped before the bookbinder's shop.

I signaled to Brightson that I was ready to return, and he opened a heavy fire upon the savages, which drove them for a moment out of musket range.

It was still as on the day of the battle, save that instead of the thousands of beating hearts, the flaunting flags, and roaring guns, there were countless ridges torn in the sod, as if a plow had run through at random, limbs and trees torn down and whirled across each other, broken wheels, musket stocks and barrels, twisted and sticking, gaunt and eloquent, in the tough, grassy fiber of the earth.

There was a gate which could be barred heavily, and loopholes were made every yard or so for musket fire.

Remembering the tactics De Meudon had taught me, I sought to organize the crowd in a kind of military formation against the troops; but a knock on the head with a musket-butt ended my labours, and I knew nothing more until I came to myself in the quarters of an old chance acquaintanceCaptain Bubbleton.

One morningit was the sixteenth of Junewe had just formed up, and General Adams had ridden up to give some order to Colonel Reynell within a musket-length of where I stood, when suddenly they both stood staring along the Brussels road.

The little toy-dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and staunch he stands; And the little toy-soldier is red with rust, And his musket moulds in his hands.

Av I only had a musket nowbut I han't.

The butt ends of four muskets rattle on the pavementthe sergeant's hand is on his shoulderthe sergeant's voice rings in his ear.

3. Pray God the enemy be not within one musket shott of us behind their hedges; for I am sure I saw an Harquebuse whip ore the way before us but even now.

The day came slow, till five o'clock, Then sprang before the hills Like hindered rubies, or the light A sudden musket spills.

He struck the butt-end of the musket thrice upon the floor.

'I am used to hard knocks,' said I, unbuttoning my tunic, and showing my two musket wounds.

he eat me at one mouth;" one mouthful he meant: however, I said no more to the boy, but bad him lie still, and I took our biggest gun, which was almost musket-bore, and loaded it with a good charge of powder, and with two slugs, and laid it down; then I loaded another gun with two bullets; and the third (for we had three pieces) I loaded with five smaller bullets.

There was a wild, blind, eager scuffling, mixed with another shot or two, oaths, whooping, screams, tramplings, and aimless blows with musket-butts.

"The old English writers call those large muskets calivers; the harquebuss was a lighter piece, that could be fired without a rest.

Several attempts to board were repelled, when an unlucky shot exploded two barrels of musket cartridges on board the Bengal.

'And in the hour of battle, when all around is darkness, lit by the lurid cannon glare and the piercing musket flashwhen the wounded strew the ground, and the dead litter your paththen remember, soldiers, that God is with you.

The spires of Richmond, late beheld Through rifts in musket-haze, Were closed from view in clouds of dust On leaf-walled ways, Where streamed our wagons in caravan; And the Seven Nights and Days Of march and fast, retreat and fight, Pinched our grimed faces to ghastly plight Does the elm wood Recall the haggard beards of blood?

"There are the musket holes," Ethel Brown pointed out.

23 Words to use with  musket