Which preposition to use with muskets

in Occurrences 43%

"Open the gate," I cried, and I got my musket in the loophole.

to Occurrences 25%

I saw a figure on it, and whipped my musket to my shoulder.

of Occurrences 19%

Just outside the stockade we dug as best we could a shallow trench, while the muskets of the others kept watch over us.

on Occurrences 18%

Uncle Samuel blew the bugle call, For his boys to fall in line, And they came, yes, by the million, On the march at double time, With muskets on their shoulders They answered to the call To defend our nation's honor,

at Occurrences 18%

I fired blindly through my loophole, seized the musket at my side, and fired a second time, then emptied both my pistols out into the night.

for Occurrences 17%

For hadn't he given up the glory of graduation and the delights of "commencement" to take up his musket for the Union?

with Occurrences 15%

While Virginia was flattering herself that she had repelled the savages, and the Rappahannock men were notching their muskets with the tale of the dead, a wave was gathering to sweep down the Pamunkey or the James, and break on the walls of James Town.

from Occurrences 12%

The bowmen rushed into the glade, and five muskets from our side took toll of them.

into Occurrences 8%

Among other things, each soldier (this is, I believe, the French practice on such occasions) fired his musket into the grave, so that the coffins were covered with cartridges.

over Occurrences 5%

So complete was the surprise, that many fled without their arms; others, in a rapid retreat, discharged their muskets over their shoulders at their pursuers; and many were killed by the loaded muskets that had been left on the ground.

against Occurrences 5%

an exclamation to which the others responded with three cheers, and by banging the buts of their muskets against the deck.

by Occurrences 4%

It is a sensible silence, disturbed only by the thousandfold rattling of muskets by which Napoleon prepares to crush the people who gave him a home when he was an exile, and by the groans of new martyrs in Sicily, Milan, Vienna, and Pesth.

across Occurrences 2%

I have never seen a braver man," and I glanced at Brightson where he sat, his musket across his knees.

beside Occurrences 2%

Taken thus in the rear, he still lay prone, staring down the slope, inactive; yet legs, body, and the bent arm that clutched a musket beside him in the grass, were stiff with some curious excitement.

during Occurrences 2%

They did not confine themselves to abuse, but fired several muskets during debate, in hopes that one shot out of the many might prove fatal; which, if it had, and any distinguished chief had been killed, or even wounded, it would have immediately thrown all into confusion.

like Occurrences 1%

If you will be satisfied with the smooth-bored muskets like the specimen forwarded to you, I will purchase them.

between Occurrences 1%

Here he directed them to spread their blankets, and lie down with the locks of their muskets between their knees, and the muzzle protected by a wooden stopper kept for the purpose.

behind Occurrences 1%

The English marines and seamen, waiting with cutlass and musket behind the silent guns, saw with amazement the dark masses thinning and shredding away.

out Occurrences 1%

A little way off, a private of the 88th, whose arm had been carried away, besought the searchers to fill and light his pipe for him, and to take the musket out of the hand of a wounded Russian near, who, he said, had three times tried to get it up to fire at him as he lay.

before Occurrences 1%

The caciques set out accordingly with their warriors, headed by Heredia, who went firing his musket before them.

per Occurrences 1%

The captives were duly sent to their fate in Sydney, and the services of the New Zealanders gratefully requited by a payment at the rate of a musket per convict.

than Occurrences 1%

However, before all the preparations could be made to carry their intentions into effect, they received certain information that the people of Hokianga were even better supplied with muskets than those of the Bay of Islands.

through Occurrences 1%

Up the steps they came, yelling like devils fresh from hell, and brought the log crashing against the door, while others thrust their muskets through the loopholes and fired into the hallway.

as Occurrences 1%

Heredia had served in the wars of Italy, and was ordered by Cortes to proceed only to the river, where he was to fire a musket as a signal, meaning only to try how far the credulity of the Indians would carry them.

under Occurrences 1%

We came, at last, to the post-house, where I was taken into a room; the Cossack placed himself with his musket under the open door, so as to keep his eye continually on me; and the other man, who, from his dark-green velvet facings, I supposed to be one of the Emperor's officers, remained some time in the room.

Which preposition to use with  muskets