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Musket in sentence

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With his musket and curved saber, he cuts an imposing figure.
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.
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.
Captain Lawton teaches his men to strike with so little discretion - poor George - bless me, it is a musket bullet."
"Answer me as I put the questions, or this musket shall send you to keep the old driveler company: where is your pack?""I will tell you nothing, unless you let me go to my father," said the peddler, resolutely.
"How!" exclaimed the Skinner, starting back, and dropping his musket to the level of the other's breast; "am I betrayed, and are you my enemy?""Miscreant!" shouted Lawton, his saber ringing in its steel scabbard, as he struck the musket of the fellow from his hands, "offer but again to point your gun at me, and I'll cleave you to the middle."
He was busy with his musket, and hastening his comrades to march; when, everything being ready, they proceeded sullenly towards some rocks at no great distance, which were overhung by a deep wood.
The distance to the rocks was but small, yet the speed of the horse compelled the leader to abandon both money and musket, to effect his escape.
He was about to turn, and retrace his path to his quarters, when he was startled by a voice, bidding him,-"Stand or die!"Dunwoodie turned in amazement, and beheld the figure of a man placed at a little distance above him on a shelving rock, with a musket leveled at himself.
"No, Major Dunwoodie," said Birch, lowering his musket, "it is neither my intention to capture nor to slay.""What then would you have, mysterious being?" said Dunwoodie, hardly able to persuade himself that the form he saw was not a creature of the imagination.
The peddler discharged the musket in the air, and threw it at the feet of his astonished auditor.
A patrol was drawn to the spot by the report of the musket, and the alarm had been given to the corps.
On hearing from the major that the musket was discharged by himself, and was probably one of those dropped by the Skinners (for by this time Dunwoodie had learned the punishment inflicted by Lawton, but chose to conceal his own interview with Birch), his officers suggested the propriety of executing their prisoner before they marched.
So saying, he tore a piece of paper that had been ingeniously fastened to the small fragment of rock which had thus singularly fallen before him; and opening it, the captain read the following words, written in no very legible hand: "A musket bullet will go farther than a stone, and things more dangerous than yarbs for wounded men lie hid in the rocks of Westchester.
The former part of the request was promptly complied with, and a few moments brought the surgeon in full view of a man armed with a musket, who was crossing the road, and evidently seeking the protection of the thick wood on its opposite side.
But as if the invitation contained new terrors, the footman redoubled his efforts, nor paused even to breathe, until he had reached his goal, when, turning on his heel, he discharged his musket towards the surgeon, and was out of sight in an instant.
"Then," cried the leader, striking his musket on the ground in a rage, "the fellow is safe! - to your business at once.
you servants of King George," shouted the leader, presenting his musket to the breast of Sitgreaves, "or I will let a little tory blood from your veins."
The fellow had by this time taken such a survey of the group, as convinced him that little danger was to be apprehended from resistance, and, eager to seize his share of the plunder, he dropped his musket, and was soon busy with the assistance of his men, in arranging divers articles of plate in bags.
There! one has fired his pistol, but the distance is too great even for a musket."
Both of the fugitives were standing, listening with much anxiety, when a man, armed with a musket, was seen stealing towards them, under the shelter of the cedar bushes, that partially covered the hill.
"Sick at heart, Archibald, at the folly of our rulers, in believing that battles are to be fought and victories won, by fellows who handle a musket as they would a flail; lads who wink when they pull a trigger, and form a line like a hoop pole.
An English sergeant, who had been concealed by a rock, enraged with the audacity of the officer who thus dared their arms, stepped from behind his cover, and leveled his musket.
A soldier's musket lay near him; his hands were pressed upon his breast, and one of them contained a substance that glittered like silver.
It was very well to draw pictures of him, and sing songs about him, and make as though he were an impostor; but I can tell you that the fear of that man hung like a black shadow over all Europe, and that there was a time when the glint of a fire at night upon the coast would set every woman upon her knees and every man gripping for his musket.
So when they could go no further, it was interesting to see what they would do; for they would sit down and say their prayers, sitting on an old saddle, or their knapsacks, maybe, and then take off their boots and their stockings, and lean their chin on the barrel of their musket.
"No.""Your line of battleships would have to lie outside; but there is water enough for a forty-gun frigate right up within musket range.
"I'm not too proud to carry a musket, if you will put me in front of this Frenchman."
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