Nevertheless the beasts quickly knew of it, and came to eat the dead body; but the poor woman, firing with the arquebuss from her cabin, saved her husband's flesh from finding such a grave.
But he had not ascended many steps when the barrel of an arquebuss was protruded over the ramparts, and the next moment the discharge was heard.
And levelling his arquebussat the noble veteran, who had fought in a hundred battles, he shot him dead--an infamous act, which doomed its perpetrator to general execration.
And kneeling down, he placed his arquebuss on the battlements and took deliberate aim at the duke.
Not an arquebuss shall be discharged till you have fired.
Such a pabesse we gave to every Indian of the Jeperis, and to others a good hatchet, and between two such Indians we placed an arquebuss shooter.
That shallow was more than an arquebuss shot and a half long, and the difficulty of passing it was very great.
Having secretly procured an arquebuss and ammunition, he now only awaited a favourable moment for the enterprise.
Instantly a wavering line of fire and smoke, followed by a sound as of thunder, broke from the walls of the palace of Axa, and the charging warriors fell like autumn leaves beneath the cannon and arquebuss balls of the Christians.
Till nightfall the Spaniards bombarded the shattered remains of the gates and the earthworks behind them, doing no great damage beyond the killing of about a score of people by cannon shot and arquebuss balls.
Would I had a crossbow or an arquebussto stop thy croaking.
Sire," replied Henry, "an arquebuss would be useless to me.
The duke unslung his arquebuss and lit the match; Henry loosened his hunting-knife in the scabbard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arquebuss" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
