For a moment the girl was tempted to seize the blunderbuss from its leather bed and jump out into the road.
At every jolt of the lumbering thing the larger and stouter of the two seized a blunderbuss from an arm-chest, in fear of possible highwaymen.
Then I gave the Boy the Blunderbuss and ordered him to present it at the Man if he perceived him to come towards me while I was opening the Scuttle, then to shoot him.
I took the Blunderbuss and said I would shoot him down, and then he came a little way and stood still, and begged me to give him Quarter.
Resistance had been impossible, at all events must have been unavailing, but before surrendering Lyde concealed a blunderbuss and ammunition between decks among the pipes of wine.
It was in the corner of the yard that I found him, a blunderbuss in his hands and a mastiff held upon a leash by his son.
I had only the dog to fear, for the two forks and the blunderbuss were shaking about like branches in a wind.
So you might as well give him a blunderbussand slugs at once.
I've a blunderbuss here and two popps, so hold hard or I'll be forced to brain ye wi' this here kettle.
So in the end they raised the groaning man and bore him forth, followed by Anthony with the blunderbuss across his arm.
The man, for man he was, though more like a huge baboon than a human creature, levelled a blunderbuss at Devereux's head.
The blunderbuss was fired, but its shot fell harmless.
But the charts of the Missouri remained uninjured, and trunks, boxes, carriage wheels, and blunderbuss were all right.
The men paraded up from the boats, the blunderbuss was fired from the bow of the big bateau, the long reed-stemmed stone-bowled pipes were smoked in amity.
The Indians had drawn their arrows and were bending their great bows, when the black mouth of the blunderbuss wheeled toward them.
With forty-five men and a blunderbuss Fort Mandan stood impregnable to any force the northern savages could bring against it.
The blunderbuss was hid under rocks at the foot of the Falls.
A firing of guns and the blunderbuss brought Black Cat to the boats.
Tom slung hisblunderbuss by a strap over his shoulder, and began to look buxom and bold enough—as though he already sniffed a hot supper and felt the ale-mug tickling his beard.
John Gore had a hand ready for a pistol, and the man Tom began to nudge the butt of his blunderbuss against his knee.
Tom obeyed him with rather a shamefaced grin, for thirty miles south of Shirleys his blunderbuss had exploded at two in the afternoon, the road running through a wood with a stray cow pushing through the hazel-bushes.
The servant behind him on the cob kept a sharp eye cocked on the hollows of the heath and the knolls of furze, and nursed his blunderbuss for comfort, though his face looked as red and as round as the sunny side of an apple.
The blunderbuss fell to the roadway, with a clatter.
His fluency with a blunderbuss was very annoying, but in my opinion it was not so fluent as to merit death.
Up stairs he knocked out some of the diamond panes so that the muzzle of a blunderbusswould go through.
I stopped so abruptly that the rim of the on-coming blunderbuss must have printed a fine pink ring on my back.
I had no difficulty in persuading the Doctor that his services would be invaluable at another place; for the memory of the blunderbuss seemed to linger with him.
There was the blunderbussover the chimney-piece--there were the two hatchets in the corner.
Already I had enough to reload the blunderbuss three times, with my three charges of powder.
One of the conductors of this novice held a rusty blunderbuss pointed towards his ear, and the other a very ancient sabre, with which he carved imaginary offenders as he came along in a sanguinary and anatomical manner.
All were armed with loaded guns and rifles; the carbine and the blunderbuss remained to guard the house.
The blunderbuss had not exploded; it always made that grand, booming, rattling, diffusive sort of a report.
The Captain reported that Sylvanus had a shotgun (single-barrelled), and that he had brought the blunderbuss with which he fired salutes off the Susan Thomas.
Unfortnitly I'd left the salutin' blunderbuss here at home, and hadn't but one pike-pole aboard.
Wilson of Montego bay--the man with the blunderbussat Kingston.
And away the old blunderbuss blazed again, until the salute was complete.
One such soldier is known under the name of Razor; another carries a blunderbuss and rides with the sharp-shooters; there are likewise two grenadiers named Dobrzynski in the chasseur regiment.
The wealthy villager rarely ventures to the market-town without his trabuco, and, perhaps, a servant on foot with a blunderbuss on his shoulder; and the most petty journey is undertaken with the preparation of a warlike enterprise.
Bruce stepped one pace backward, and dropped the burnoose behind him, holding a small blunderbuss in his hand, without taking it off the belt.
He was dressed as a mail guard, with a wig on his head and most enormous cuffs to his coat, and had a lantern in one hand, and a huge blunderbuss in the other, which he was going to stow away in his little arm-chest.
His blunderbuss he snapped several times, but unfortunately it missed fire; he then secured his fusee, which he discharged on some who were breaking through the windows, and obliged them to flee.
General Wadsworth was provided with a pair of pistols, a blunderbuss and a fusee, which he employed with great dexterity, being determined to defend himself to the last moment.
They advanced upon him And began to fire, But Christian with his blunderbuss Soon made them retire.
Then the minister laid down his blunderbuss and, facing the company, raised his arms in prayer, invoking the "God of Armies" as though he addressed his supplication before a vast armed host.
In two or three minutes the servants, headed by the butler, who had armed himself with a blunderbuss that always hung in his room ready for action, came downstairs.
Just at this moment a big man with a shock of red hair and a huge beard leveled a blunderbuss at him.
A moment later there was a roar as the blunderbuss went off, the contents lodging in the ceiling.
I shall make arrangements for the gardener to sleep in the house in future, and you will hand that blunderbuss over to him.
The soldier who was alive was the one who had received the charge of the blunderbuss in his legs; he was terribly injured below the knee, and Ralph had little doubt that amputation would be necessary.
The room was full of smoke, the blunderbuss on the floor just discharged, the door closed, and no human being but himself discoverable in the apartment!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blunderbuss" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
