And my own mind is a reality from which I can judge by analogy of the realities represented by other men's brains, just as the chassepot in my hand is a reality from which I can judge by analogy of the chassepots represented in the picture.
He took our word for it that the chassepots for the new troops would be paid for, even though he knows that the Government is likely to fall into the hands of those who hate us.
Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?
The question, however, whether both cannon and Chassepots can be made in Paris is solved, as the private workshops are making daily deliveries of both to Government.
Why, sir, giving them fellow Chassepots is much like giving watches to naked savages.
Frenchmen are so accustomed to expect their Governments to do everything for them, that they cannot understand why, although there were but few Chassepots in the city, every citizen should not be given one.
Everywhere else the cannon were surprised in the same way.
I adjure you to leave the field open to the union of the mayors and deputies; your confidence will be well placed.
But the perfidious promptings of Felix Pyat had induced the Romanticists to look upon their colleagues of the minority as veritable reactionists.
The chassepots went off on all sides; by degrees the hostages fell.
Two thousandchassepots fell into the hands of the people.
The chassepots were being levelled, when a member of the Council said, "What are you doing?
As he seized the horse's head and started up the slope again, firing broke out among the thickets close at hand; the infantry swung out to the west in a long sagging line; the chassepots began banging right and left.
Here infantry were assembled, with their chassepots in readiness.
The officer commanding the troops, here, has promised us the loan of a hundred and twenty old guns, which are in store; and also of twenty chassepots for rifle practice.
The light of the candle glinted on the barrels of the chassepots as they were brought to an aim; the angry men were about to shoot him where he stood, while he, headstrong and violent, would not yield an inch.
But Beaudoin's company had seen them there once, and to their eyes they were there still; the chassepots seemed to go off of their own accord.
The chassepots of Mentana were needed to check the Garibaldians.
On they flew like hares before the hounds, till, turning the corner of the Place du Palais Royal, they were stopped by two Federals, who levelled their chassepots and bade them stand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chassepots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
