Musket in example sentence

Potential army recruits were turned away if they had tooth decay or missing teeth, because they would be unable to bite open a powder cartridge for a musket or use their teeth to remove a grenade’s safety clip; they would also struggle to eat properly.

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With his musket and curved saber, he cuts an imposing figure.

They were treated, then, like convicts, forced to work by a loaded musket!

It was so rapid that there was only a stifled cry in the night, while the musket fell with the sound of old iron.

These were not unfrequently composed of men raised in the colonies, and at other times drafts were had from the regiments of the line, and the soldiers were made to lay aside the musket and bayonet, and taught to wield the saber and carbine.

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