Only two or three of the Indians, it seemed, had fire-arms.

But one of his men, who had no fire-arms, wanted my gun and pistol.

The introduction of poison-gas, which is a small thing compared with the invention of fire-arms, has given the chemist a place in the ranks of fighting-men.

" Six months before his appearance in B, Captain Jarvis had been a clerk in the counting-room of Jarvis, Baxter & Co., and had never held fire-arms of any kind in his hand, with the exception of an old blunderbuss, which had been a kind of sentinel over the iron chest for years.

It was the custom of the home-guards to meet weekly, and practice with their fire-arms, in order to be the better prepared, as they pretended, for any sudden incursion of the now dreaded Yankee.

They had some fire-arms, but made very little use of them, as they came directly to close fighting with their spears, lances, and sabres.

By this time a general rummage had commenced in the boat for fire-arms; the captain hailed the driver on the towing path, who pulled up, and the boat was moored by the canal side.

A ditch or canal about twenty-five feet wide, runs all around the wall and used to render the battering of the wall a matter of extreme difficulty before the invention of powder and the introduction of fire-arms.

Another thing we notice among the Colonies, which had no inconsiderable influence on their growth, was the use of fire-arms among all the people, to defend themselves from hostile Indians.

One door gave way: there was a stunning crash, followed by reports of fire-arms, cries of agony, and the dull sound of falling victims.

After we had dined, or rather supped, I ordered Friday to take one of the canoes, and go and fetch our muskets and other fire-arms, which, for want of time, we had left upon the place of battle: and, the next day, I ordered him to go and bury the dead bodies of the savages, which lay open to the sun, and would presently be offensive.

""Have they any fire-arms?" said I. He answered, "they had only two pieces, one of which they left in the boat."

They are excellent horsemen, expert at the sword and lance; and with fire-arms most admirable marksmen.

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The foregoing remarks appear to me conclusive evidence that the testing of fire-arms should not be left to age and experience alone.

Many useful inventions resulted from his studies, among which are the invention of "Prince's Metal," locks for fire-arms, improvements in gunpowder, &c.

"Suddenly, the man's narrative was interrupted by an explosion of fire-arms, which broke upon the clear, frosty night, and startled even Nathan.

It was the opinion of Brown, on the whole, that little was to be apprehended from Waally's fire-arms.

The men advanced in a body at a smart run; but the terrified Esquimaux, who had never heard the report of fire-arms before, did not wait for them.

Unfortunately not one of the party had brought fire-arms.

There was a brisk trade in fire-arms and gunpowder.

On entering the sitting-room Harry leaned his gun against the wall in the angle between it and the bureau, from which action alone it might have been known that he was a bachelor, and that there were no children about the house to get into danger with fire-arms.

Nearly every man had carried a gun in the early days of the expedition, hoping to kill game, and to be well armed in case of attack by Indians or enemies, but they began to find that they were useless encumbrances, and first one and then another would throw away his fire-arms as a burden too great for a weary man to bear.

The author affects classical names for modern fire-arms, naming what we have translated hand-guns balistae colubrinae.

Striving always to keep liquor and fire-arms from them, he encouraged them to farm, helped to found schools for them, and interested himself in the all-important question of their physical health, on which he consulted and corresponded with Florence Nightingale.