'What name this fellow
musket?' those plenty fella white marster talk 'm along me.
Pork, powder, and biscuit was the cargo, with only a musket and a cutlass apiece for the squire and me and Redruth and the captain.
We put old Redruth in the gallery between the cabin and the forecastle, with three or four loaded muskets and a mattress for protection.
He fired a musket at them, and killed a poor German boy, only eleven years old.
Thence they marched to the Common with loaded muskets, fixed bayonets, and great pomp and parade.
One of the assailants - he who was about to fire - replied to these cries by an exclamation of surprise; and, as his companion, who wished to continue the attack, had re-seized his loaded musket, he who had cried out threw up the weapon, and the ball flew into the air.
We shall kill at least two of these scoundrels, when their muskets are empty." And, suiting the action to the word, Raoul was springing forward, followed by Athos, when a well-known voice resounded behind them, "Athos!
The butt end of the
musket hovered over his head, and he could scarcely restrain himself from closing his eyes, when with one bound Guiche reached the Spaniard and placed a pistol at his throat.
The sudden appearance of the figure from the tent had created a momentary stupor among the defendants of the rock, which might, with suitable forbearance, have been happily improved; but startled by the voice of Middleton, the surprised Phoebe discharged her
musket at the female, scarcely knowing whether she aimed at the life of a mortal or at some being which belonged to another world.
To arm these, they had eleven
muskets, five pistols, three fowling-pieces, five
muskets or fowling-pieces which were taken by me from the mutinous seamen whom I reduced, two swords, and three old halberds.
I was here in danger of losing my life by a compliment which the Portuguese paid the prince of a discharge of twelve
muskets; one being unskilfully charged too high, flew out of the soldier's hand, and falling against my leg, wounded it very much; we had no surgeon with us, so that all I could do was to bind it hard with some cloth.
Suddenly one shot after another rang out from the French, smoke appeared all along their uneven ranks, and
musket shots sounded.
Even Marmaduke forgot the morality of Leather-Stocking as it approached, and, in common with the rest, brought his
musket to a poise.
He comprehended that the
musket had not come there of itself, and that he who bore it had not concealed himself behind a hedge with any friendly intentions.
All I ever saw, besides the articles just alluded to, were the six
muskets preserved in the Ti, and three or four similar implements of warfare hung up in other houses; some small canvas bags, partly filled with bullets and powder, and half a dozen old hatchet-heads, with the edges blunted and battered to such a degree as to render them utterly worthless.
