On one side of the body rode Barredo; on the other, El Senix, bearing the scimitar and arquebuse of his murdered master.
He sullenly refused to obey the call to yield, until Francesco--who now assumed command with a readiness that galled Gonzaga more and more--bade one of them go fetch an arquebuse and shoot the dog.
But since she defies us, I'll woo her with arquebuse and cannon, and seek by starvation to make her surrender to my suit.
Arquebuse à croc--a small piece of ordnance placed on a stock or club, fired by a match.
A few weeks later, the pontiff shocked even some devout Roman Catholics by allowing Cardinal Lorraine and the French ambassador to present to him Maurevel, the assassin who had fired the arquebuse shot at Admiral Coligny.
Accompanied by about a dozen gentlemen, he again sallied forth, but had not proceeded over a hundred paces when from behind a lattice an arquebuse was fired at him.
Everybody must have known that if the arquebuse shot had done its work, and Coligny had been killed on the spot, every Huguenot would have been far from the walls of Paris long before Sunday.
As it was, of the three balls with which the arquebusewas loaded, one took off a finger of his right hand, and another lodged in his left arm, making an ugly wound.
Such was the Christian hero whom his enemies represented as breathing out menaces upon the bed on which Maurevel's arquebuse had laid him, and as exclaiming: "If my arm is wounded, my head is not.
I deem it certain that, if the shooting of the arquebuse at the admiral was a thing projected a few days beforehand, and authorized by the king, all the rest was inspired by circumstances.
To avoid further peril, he ascended to the roof, from which he made his way to an adjoining house; but he had not gone far before he was seen and shot with an arquebuseby one of the Duke of Anjou's guards.
The arquebuse did its work: panic, slaughter, and a plentiful harvest of scalps.
The prudent Laudonnière set his men in array, and for a season pick and spade were dropped for arquebuse and pike.
Fourneaux, armed with steel cap and cuirass, held his arquebuse to Laudonnière's breast, and demanded leave to go on a cruise among the Spanish islands.
Each man tied his powder-flask to his morion, held his arquebuse above his head with one hand and grasped his sword with the other.
For he stood in the doorway of the wine room pointing his arquebuse toward his companions and vowing he would shoot the one who advanced.
And yet, I myself, arquebuse in hand, I hunted them to the death.
All these cloaks, gray or black, were raised behind by the point of a sword, or before by the barrel of an arquebuse or a musket.
The only precaution he had taken in coming to the archbishopric was to leave his arquebuse in the hands of a friend.
An arquebuse had been put into his hand, but he refused it, as a weapon unsuited to knightly hands, and as betraying a distrust that was not merited by the previous conduct of the natives.
This movement had been so rapid, that the ball fired at him from the arquebuseonly struck the prie-Dieu.
The one who wished to preach the League with his arquebuse on his shoulder?
Bussy turned his head to look at the man who laughed at such a time, and at the same instant an arquebuse was discharged into his breast.
He leaned his arquebuse on the balcony, and, having taken aim with the necessary leisure and coolness, fired.
Each horseman carries a footman armed with an arquebuse behind him, so that the troop is twice as numerous as it appears.
They never remain quiet, but are continually running, traversing from place to place, so that neither crossbow nor arquebuse can be aimed at them.
When the champions were within ten yards of each other, a report like the discharge of an arquebusewas heard, coming apparently from beneath the pavilion.
When the men had approached within four yards, we heard a noise back of us and turning saw four soldiers, each bearing an arquebuse pointed in our direction.
No arquebuse has been found, and a careful scrutiny has been made.
Not one hundred seconds had elapsed between the report of the arquebuse and the placing of Yolanda in my arms; but hardly had Max finished speaking when a dozen ladies crowded about us and took possession of the unconscious princess.
Just then the men who had been sent out to seek evidence concerning the shot returned, and reported that no arquebuse was to be found.
I threw aside the arquebuse and proceeded to kill the canting mendicant.
May the devil seize me," he murmured, "if that frock yonder does not cover the body of that little miscreant whom I wished them to give me for a traveling companion, and who handles his arquebuse and sword so cleverly.
On one side rode Barredo; on the other the murderer El Senix bore the scimitar and arquebuse of the dead prince.
Determined also to signalise himself, he needlessly exposed his life, and was hit by an arquebuse ball.
But before he could add any thing further, the report of an arquebuse from the front filled the forest with its roar, and Cortes, plunging the spur into his charger, was instantly borne out of sight.
They had looked for victims only, having met with no resistance at the gate, and the foremost recoiled now on finding themselves confronted by the muzzle of the arquebuse and the lighted match.
The former had a long pike; the latter levelled a heavy, bell-mouthed arquebuse across the back of a chair, and blew up his match as I entered.
They were dainty eating, and Claude's arquebuse cracked through the woods on the short winter days, as he kept the larder stocked with food--a welcome change after the salt beef which had been set ashore with the women.
When it was but twenty yards away Marguerite's arquebuse was raised, and with unflinching nerve she fired at the advancing brute.
I mounted with an arquebuseupon the saddle-bow, wound up in readiness to fire, if need were.
But the honour of firing the arquebuse which brought him down cannot be assigned to any one in particular.
Then he went away with the most pleasant words at parting, while I remained, and chose the finest and bestarquebuse I ever saw, or ever had, and took it back with me to home.
I had set spurs to my horse, and while he was galloping, had charged and got my arquebuse in readiness again; but now I turned back, burning with fury, and meaning to play my part this time in earnest.
He answered that Good Friday or the Devils Friday was all the same to him, and that if I did not take myself away, he would fell me to the ground with a spontoon which he had taken up--me and the arquebuse I had my hand on.
Though I had prepared the arquebuse for my defence, I had not yet levelled it exactly at him; indeed it was pointed too high.
He bade him order all us bombardiers to point our pieces, which were very numerous, in one mass upon the house, and to discharge them all together upon the signal of an arquebuse being fired.
What pleased the monarch even more, and perhaps not less his sons, was that she shot with an arquebuse like a sharpshooter, and could ride to hounds like a natural-born Amazon.
Forgive me, sire, I am a still better marksman with an arquebuse than a pistol," replied Maurevel, now quite reassured.
Pistol or arquebuse makes no difference," said the King; "I am sure my cousin De Guise will not cavil over the choice of methods.
The father, armed only with an unloaded arquebuse and a poniard, was calling for assistance.
I saw the arquebuse spitting flame, I heard the thump of the bullet, which sounded as if it had struck against the great bell of Notre-Dame, and I left him stretched out in the gutter with streams of blood flowing from his nose and mouth.
Then taking the arquebuse from Coconnas he blew on the tinder to make sure that it was still alight.
While this was going on, Maitre la Huriere came up and with one blow with the butt-end of his arquebusesmashed in the door.
The Swiss went and posted themselves at the other corner of the street, and La Huriere, with his arquebuse in his hand, waited till the enemy reappeared at the window.
Then, animated by a frightful ardor, Charles loaded and fired his arquebuse without cessation, uttering cries of joy every time his aim was successful.
That moment De Mouy had seen La Huriere aim his arquebuse at him; it was fired; but the young man had time to stoop, and the ball broke a window above his head.
He had arranged with Alvarado, on the evening previous, to occupy the market-place of Tlatelolco; and the discharge of an arquebuse was to be the signal for a simultaneous assault.
But the honor of firing the arquebusewhich brought him down cannot be assigned to anyone in particular.
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