Shots from cannons and blunderbusses rent the smoke of battle with long red tongues.
I gave the order for Tom Peel to saddle the four horses and get six of his men with swords and pistols and blunderbusses to act as an escort for me.
The blunderbusses were more dangerous than I supposed, and they tore up the gravel into a shower of small stones that scattered far and wide, and made many a man fall down, thinking he was shot.
Each one of them can sling a cutlass to the king's taste, and fire a pistol without winking, and there are now concealed in the hedge half a dozen blunderbusses in case they should be needed.
The old man was somewhat reassured when he saw the priest come in; but dismay and terror took hold of him when the nine men with their blunderbusses and their swords came singing around a corner of the house and drew up in front of it.
Marry, I hope you will excuse the blunderbusses for not being in readiness to salute you; but let me know your hour, and all shall be mended another time.
Three weeks behind Hunt, Lisa set out in a swift barge propelled by twenty oars, with a swivel on the bow and two blunderbusses in the cabin.
Two pieces of cannon are in position and a pair of blunderbusses on the taffrail.
The enraged Frenchman took him at his word, and threw in twenty men upon him, who began to hack and hew into his close quarters; but a discharge of blunderbusses made the invaders retreat as fast as their wounds would permit them.
In 1720 ladies going to Court were escorted by servants armed with blunderbusses "to shoot at the rogues.
Every nook and cranny about the opening was guarded by armed men; and now, when the cool stranger glanced up-wards, he found a dozen rifles, pistols or blunderbusses pointed at him.
Pistols, knives, and blunderbusses were called into requisition.
Lights were soon seen in the windows, and directly afterwards a party of men appeared at the door, armed with blunderbusses and pistols.
The noise of the blunderbusses aroused the inhabitants of several neighbouring houses, some of whom came out, while others discharged their firearms from their windows.
Moors and Christians carried large blunderbusses of ancient mode, and all day long to the sounds of indefatigable melody they paraded the town.
Then group by group, with blunderbusses banging off into the air, the Christians retreated slowly up the street, going backwards.
In 1720 ladies going to court were escorted by servants armed with blunderbusses "to shoot at the rogues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blunderbusses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
