Without showing much emotion, Coligny pointed to the house from which the shots had proceeded (the arquebuswas loaded with several bullets), and tried to get the assassin arrested; but he had already fled.
It is necessary to aim an arquebus (which they fear greatly) at them in order to get the article returned.
And to induce them to leave the ships free, there is no better method than to fire the arquebus in the air, the reverberations of which cause them to hide, fear, and vanish.
He fired a few arquebus shots, but with so great mildness and moderation that it served only to frighten and not to kill them, but it was effective.
They are exercised with arquebus and crossbow in the park, and the mounted men are taught to manoeuvre and charge, so that, in case of need, we can show a good face against any body of troops of equal numbers.
Our watchman would, at once, fire an arquebus and light another beacon; which would be the signal for all within reach to come here, as quickly as possible.
He had just left the king, who was playing at tennis, and was walking homewards with two or three gentlemen, when an arquebus was fired from a house not far from his own.
Others say that this proof was made by Manco Ccapac with the staff of gold which he carried himself, and that thus they knew of the fertility of the land, when the staff sunk in the land called Huanay-pata, two shots of an arquebus from Cuzco.
At the time when Manco Ccapac settled at Ynti-cancha and seized the goods of the Sauaseras and Huallas, the Alcabisas were settled half an arquebus shot from Ynti-canchi, towards the part where Santa Clara now stands.
Filippo Strozzi made many improvements in the arquebus about 1530, and his weapons were effective up to four and five hundred paces.
Both the arquebus and the musket had a touch-hole on the right side of the barrel, with a pan for the priming, with which a lighted quick match was brought in contact by pressing a trigger.
A German arquebus of the 16th century, in the museum of Sigmaringen, is a revolver of seven barrels.
This lock was invented at Nuremberg in 1515, but was seldom applied to the arquebus and musket on account of the costliness of its mechanism and the uncertainty of its action.
Previous to the French wars in Italy, hand-gun men and even arbalisters seem to have been called arquebusiers, but in the course of these wars the arquebus or hackbut came into prominence as a distinct type of weapon.
Of the Turks who carried the musket or arquebus few could handle them with the expertness of a Christian soldier.
The Pacha had on board four hundred picked janizaries--three hundred armed with thearquebus and one hundred with the bow.
His voice was like the yelp of an arquebusin the beginning of a battle.
After much signaling a boat was lowered from her side and many men armed with arquebus and pike dropped down into her.
Then he shouldered his arquebus and settled his sword in its sheath, walking up and down again.
A soldier ran down the beach and fired an arquebus at us, but the ball went skipping along the water and did us no damage.
Presently, upon a hill, outlined clear against the sky, hisarquebus upon his shoulder and his breastpieces and helmet catching the first glint of the morning light, a soldier appeared.
Nanon, thou canst manage anarquebus as well as any man among them.
To the man from whom the rakish Spanish soldiers bent the knee and removed the covering from the head, Tahn-té felt no antagonism as he did for the men who carried the arquebus and swords.
So, seeing that the guard was good, and that each arquebus was near, and in readiness if need be for dusky visitors, the company fell asleep well content.
He carried the arquebus that had belonged to the guardsman, and his match was burning.
Take the arquebus and the match, Frojac," said I, "and come.
A quick fight was the thing to serve me best, for these men had been taken by surprise, and two of them had only halberds, one had a sword, the fourth had an arquebus but his match was out.
Chatre," said I, "the contents of an arquebus travel faster than a man can.
When his glance reached Frojac, my good man had his arquebus on a line with the governor's head, the match dangerously near the breech.
A few paces from me, my father, unhorsed by the arquebus of young Odet of Plouernel, raised himself livid, and sank again in a sitting posture, carrying his hands to his cuirass which a bullet had perforated.
His brown and threadbare coat, patched up in a score of places, was held around his waist by a cord from which hung a chaplet of arquebus balls with a small crucifix of lead.
Finally many others succeeded in reaching the Two Mills Gate at the moment that a company of Protestants, attracted by the sound of arquebus shots, sallied from the city and were hastening to the beach.
The arquebus shot of Maurevert would have rid Charles IX at once of Coligny, the Guises and the Protestants.
The Franc-Taupin polished the barrel of an arquebus just taken, tarnished and defaced, from the forge.
Their example was followed simultaneously at a score of different places, despite fresh arquebus discharges from the royalists.
It was Odelin Lebrenn, bringing back the Admiral's casque, which was sent to him to repair, it having been bent in the day before by a ball from a large arquebus while the Admiral was on a reconnoitering expedition.
The exchange of arquebusshots then ceased and a furious hand-to-hand struggle ensued with swords, cutlasses and pikes.
For arms he has a chaplet, the beads of which are arquebus balls, and a heavy iron crucifix which he uses for a mace.
They hastened upon the bridge with the cannoniers, but unable to take aim upon us at so short a distance, and from above down, they left the cannons alone and sent us through the darkness a shower of arquebus shots that struck several of us.
His son raised his light arquebus and took aim at my father, just then engaged in replacing his pistol in its holster.
The last of the three brigantines had just entered the port when the rattle of arquebus shots resounded from behind the rocks which bordered the beach to the right of where the Rochelois women were assembled.
Hardly had Colonel Plouernel uttered these words when they heard a lively rattle of arquebus fire from the lake road.
The King held a long arquebus in his hand; a page carried another of identical shape and stood behind his master ready to pass it over to him.
Suddenly the wind fell off somewhat, and now the canvas of the merchantman slapped against her masts with dull reports like the sounds of an arquebus shot off at a distance.
Just as the vessels drove apart, and the barque was lost in the mist, a stray shot from an arquebus hit me in the thigh--and I know I cannot survive.
The arquebus had a contrivance, suggested by the trigger of the cross-bow, to convey at once the burning match to the trigger.
The Good Knight Bayard did prodigies of valour, driving back a whole company of arquebusiers, but in the moment of triumph he was struck by the stone from an arquebus and received mortal injury.
Oh, sir, an Indian will pray to an arquebus not to shoot him; he sure their artillery is safe enough," said Yeo.
An arquebus was pointed at him, but, ere it was discharged, a hand from the crowd struck it away.
A'Dale joined me, armed with an arquebus which he had taken from one of the Spaniards who had been shot.
Another fired an arquebus from the altar, shouting at each discharge 'Viva Cristo!
Leonardo of Marco d'Oggionno, who had also entered, arquebus in hand, and was beginning to shut the shutters.
Amused, Leonardo listened to the howl of the mob, and when Marco would have discharged his arquebus at them, it was the Master who restrained him.
I cried out as we topped a deep ravine with a plunge that almost caused Angiola to slip from my grasp, and as I said this I heard a shot and a ball from an arquebus whistled over my head.
I borrowed an arquebus from one of my men, and the arrangement was that we were to charge out after a volley, the first shot of which I was to fire.
Nothing, signore, but an arquebus and my sword, which I have at my lodging.
A ravelin in advance of the fortress on the land side was scourged without ceasing by the arquebus fire of the Janissaries.
Succinct History of the Development of Small Arms, from the Arquebus to Our Rifle 3.
The arquebus marks then the transition from the mechanically thrown missile to the bullet.
We have noted briefly the successive improvements in fire arms, from the arquebus to the rifle.
Succinct History of the Development of Small Arms, from the Arquebus to Our Rifle The arquebus in use before the invention of powder gave the general design to fire arms.
The butt of the arquebus was perfectly straight, and placed against the breast when the gun was fired.
The arquebus is mentioned by Philip de Comines, in his account of the battle of Morat, in 1476.
The arquebus constructed in this manner was used in England in the time of Henry VIII.
In the course of this voyage in pursuit of the enemy, not a musket or arquebus shall be fired, nor a powder-box touched, until after his discovery.
Poor Moriton we got off, but he died last night, having been shot very funnily by two arquebus balls at the same moment, which must have touched each other, for they made a long wound just like a keyhole.
I bade them then fire an arquebus in return, and two minutes after another pistol-shot was heard, which at once confirmed the supposition of Moric Endem.
Reaching the cliff we climbed together nor stayed until she had brought me to a little cave where lay an arquebus together with bandoliers.
So now whiles I loaded the arquebus I told her as well as I might something of what I thought concerning her brave spirit, of my undying love for her, though in fashion very lame and halting.
Whereupon I tried a shot at them with my long-barrelled arquebus to no purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arquebus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
