They threw themselves upon the poor cats, and shot them with arquebusesas men shoot at the popinjay.
However, the admiral, Joan de Alezega, caused two pieces to be fired and a discharge of his musketry and arquebuses upon the enemy.
But if that cannot be done, care shall be taken that our artillery andarquebuses are not turned on our own ships and men.
From others it is necessary to demand the tribute with arquebuses and other weapons, and men, in order to make them give it; and most of them it is necessary to imprison to make them provide the tribute.
Many of them were seen on deck, armed witharquebuses and unsheathed cutlasses.
During the day the Moros came to look at the soldiers ashore with their arquebuses and lighted match-ropes.
In 1446 the first prize shooting with arquebuses and muskets was held; afterwards the hand-gun in its various forms always prevailed.
At this moment, with a deafening din, a hundred arquebuses were discharged close beside the smith, a dense cloud of smoke darkened the air, and when the wind dispersed it, Adam no longer beheld the standard.
The cannon roared, culverins crashed, muskets and arquebuses rattled; the boding notes of the alarm-bells and the fierce shouts of soldiers and citizens hurrying to battle mingled with the deafening thunder of the artillery.
The Captain of the launch, seeing their diligence and how quickly they went to work, fired off arquebuses to frighten them.
All the artillery, muskets, and arquebuses were fired off.
The natives then departed, and our people, to give them joy, fired their arquebuses into the air, and returned on board.
The soldiers stood with their arquebuses reversed, in accordance with usage at the funerals of Generals.
The Captain gave it to the Father, who took it into the church and fastened it to the high altar, with ringing of bells at both churches, sound of trumpets, and discharge of guns and of arquebuses and muskets by the soldiers.
It was made public that, one night, a troop of armed malcontents came to enter a house where some loyal men were watching, and after they had pointedarquebuses at their breasts, they turned back and went into a tent.
This city needs arms badly, especiallyarquebuses and muskets in case of any emergency.
When the Spaniards see this, they follow them, discharging their arquebuses at them and mercilessly killing as many as they can.
Those companies have the best arms, muskets, and arquebuses of this camp and in great quantity.
Although I charge in it that war has been made without his Majesty’s order, besides that the land is so slightly pacified that the collectors have to go in bands to ask the tribute and with guards and arquebuses to collect the tribute.
Second: Good flints and locks for the arquebuses can be had here cheaply; but the barrels must be brought from España, and should be all of one bore, so that the same bullets may be furnished for them.
At the cry of the sailor, proclaiming the trick practiced on him by the islander, several soldiers with their arquebuses were stationed to shoot the native when he should emerge from the water.
They tried to kill it with arquebuses and arrows, but it disappeared.
Thereupon the traitors unsheathed their swords, drew their arquebuses and muskets, and lighted their fuses.
Item: The royal magazines have very few muskets and arquebuses for the defense of that kingdom.
Many sell their arquebuses to the natives, which is a great evil.
Let your men with arquebuses keep watch night and day and shoot them down when they arrive.
Matches were blown, and the priming of the arquebuses looked to; then they gathered round the ropes, and listened for the tramp of horses.
Each has his sword and pike, and there are four or five arquebuses in the village.
Some tried to flee, and some sought the shelter of our arquebuses in a storehouse where the provisions were kept, where the Spaniards had retired, and where they remained fighting, because of their few number, until shortly after midday.
The captain began to fear some detention, and sent to our fort for more men, in order to negotiate with arquebuses what they were unable to compass by kindness; but these were not sent.
But if the fugitives were here exposed to a fresh peril, they escaped one to which they had hitherto been subjected, for the precipices kept the soldiers away from the river, and the firing of arquebuses ceased.
His men had their arquebuses with them, but he would not allow them to fire.
Warthy instantly directed the ferryman to make for the rock, and at the same time ordered another discharge of arquebuses to guide him, reiterating his injunctions to his men that Bourbon must be taken alive.
Those who sought to climb from the roof to the adjacent houses were picked off by the arquebuses of the besieging party.
The duke himself was approaching, and a volley from the arquebuses of his troop speedily scattered the unarmed worshippers.
Arquebuses are excellent weapons for keeping off these Arabs, as they are in great fear of the shot.
Being hard pressed, they discharged their arquebuses upon the negroes, who leapt into the water to avoid the shot.
Footnote 296: Bases and curriers must have been some small species of ordnance, capable of being used in boats; arquebuses were matchlock muskets.
Guards and soldiers now appeared on the scene, mighty with arquebuses and pikes.
If we made a sortie from the house into their torch-light, they would mow us down with muskets and arquebuses from the dark.
Indeed it was a bad place for attackers, since they could not shoot witharquebuses or arrows, but must pass in to be slaughtered like sheep at the shambles in the dim room beyond.
After this the fort did not fire again, for the gunners found no time to load their pieces, only some soldiers who were armed with arquebuses began to shoot as the boat swept past within a few yards of them.
Retreating to a large mosque near the walls, they kept up so galling a fire from it with lances, crossbows, and arquebuses that for some time the Christians dared not approach.
The royal host swept on toward the height of Albohacen: an intervening hill hid it from his sight, but loud shouts and cries, the din of drums and trumpets, and the reports of arquebuses gave note that the battle had begun.
Some of the Moors plied their crossbows and arquebuses to defend the workmen and drive the Christians from the walls, while the latter showered down stones and darts and melted pitch and flaming combustibles on the miners.
An incessant fire of crossbows and arquebuses was kept up between the rival towers, volleys of stones were discharged, and no one dared to venture upon the intermediate bridge.
The fight was hot and obstinate, for but few could contend hand to hand, yet many discharged crossbows and arquebuses from the banks.
They now opened a galling fire from their battlements and towers, approaching the breaches so as to discharge their crossbows and arquebuses into the advanced guard of the encampment.
Did you notice what beautiful cuirasses and arquebuses there were among them?
The gate was broken in two places; the second petard was lighted, and a new opening was made in the wood; but twenty arquebuses immediately passed through, vomiting balls on the soldiers and officers, and the men fell like mowed grass.
As he spoke a dozen arquebuses were fired at them; one ball struck off a plume from Henri's helmet, his horse was killed by another, and Mornay's had his leg broken.
There must have been more than five hundred arquebuses and as many of their kind of swords, and some battle-axes.
But it was not to be understood by that that thearquebuses and muskets for arming the infantry should come without powder-horns.
On such occasions the hunters rose at dawn, and with well-aimed arquebuses shot down two or more; the very fatness of the birds being such, as made them split open as they struck the earth.
On the borders of a little lake, they found some wild ducks feeding, which they approached without alarming them, and the fire of a couple of arquebuses gave them sufficient food for the day.
The Spaniards fought like lions; but they had no time to fix their arquebuses on the crutches; no room, in that narrow path, to use their pikes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arquebuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
