From Weir I got the notion of putting up ball and powder in cartouches, and I devised a method of priming much quicker and surer than the ordinary.

For this occasion I neglected cartouches, and loaded in the old way.

" So with pistols in belt, and a supply of cartouches and some little food in our pockets, Ringan and I were enfolded in the silence of the woods.

Somehow, in the handling of me, my store of cartouches had disappeared from my pockets.

Close by, under a drooping foreground of branches, a stake upheld an oblong placard of neat symbols, like a cartouche to explain a painting.

The Schinderhannes division, the brigades of Mandrin, Cartouche, Poulailler, Trestaillon, and Tropmann appeared in the gloom, shooting down and massacring.

It was a very fine scarab of the eighteenth dynasty fashioned of lapis lazuli and engraved with the cartouche of Amenhotep III.

The last work is by some critics given a very high place in realistic fiction, but like the other three, and like Defoe's minor narratives of Jack Sheppard and Cartouche, it is a disagreeable study of vice, ending with a forced and unnatural repentance.

ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge, cartouche, fireball; villainous saltpeter

[Fr.], arabesque, fret, anthemion^; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal^, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster &c (projection) 250; bead, beading; champleve ware

Une cartouche.

Une cartouche à balle.

Une cartouche à blanc.

Une fausse cartouche.

Some of the feminine types are, however, sufficiently remarkable, dressed out in a quasi-military costume, wearing soft boots and a cartouche belt in the Circassian style.

By a fatality, for which I did not exactly know how to account, my thoughts frequently led me to the histories of celebrated robbers; and I related, from time to time, incidents and anecdotes of Cartouche, Gusman d'Alfarache, and other memorable worthies, whose career was terminated upon the gallows or the scaffold.

He began to retail some of my stories of Cartouche and Gusman d'Alfarache.

"What say you to Cartouche?" said Sk; "was he a coward?

Now, Sth; Now, the cowardly Cartouche; Now, the poltroon Rob Roy; Now, the braggart Wallace!

It was in one of these dungeons that for forty-three years lived the accomplice of Cartouche, who betrayed him to procure this commutation!

CARTOUCHE, an eighteenth century highwayman.

The pathos of the conclusion does somewhat remind one of the Irishman's despatch during the American war,"It was a bloody battle while it lasted; and the searjent of marines lost his cartouche box.

CARTOUCHE, a notorious captain of a band of thieves, born in Paris, who was broken on the wheel alive in the Place de Grève (1698-1721).

4 kegs lead slates. 200 cartouche boxes.