Accustomed to the use of firearms from their boyhood, they had quickly been turned into efficient soldiers.
An Indian is always on the watch at night in a tree near the spot, and the moment the jaguar is caught he gives the alarm, and his companions assemble and despatch it with firearms and lances.
We hurried on, hoping to get beyond the range of the firearms of our enemies before they had reached the bank; and we had completely lost sight of them when we heard a volley fired.
Firing from the obscurity into the growing light, the garrison had the best of the position; but there were firearmsamong the assailants too, and the balls whistled through the long hall and buried themselves in the panelling.
Firearms formed one of the most important objects of attention.
The savages exchanged their corn and tobacco for the rum-cask and the firearms of civilization, and a strange jumble of a new religion, whose ceremonies they grafted onto their own, with grotesque results.
At sunset a discharge of firearms takes place from all the principal houses.
You know," said he, "what progress artillery science has made during the last few years, and what a degree of perfection firearms of every kind have reached.
And immediately divers other objects, firearms and bottles, abandoned to themselves, held themselves up as by enchantment.
Furthermore, with the introduction of firearms decoy reindeer became less necessary for getting within range of the wild ones; but we see that they were still used in the sixteenth century, when the Lapps continued to shoot with the bow.
At Zlatoust there is a manufactory of firearms and sword blades that is said to be unsurpassed in the excellence of its products.
He was not molested until within forty miles of San-Sin, when the natives came out with flails, but prudently held aloof on seeing the firearms in the boat.
The guns and firearms of the Spaniards made such havoc and confusion that the terrified Indians offered no resistance.
But the firearms of the Spaniards frightened the barbarians, and when the cavalry arrived the Indians fled in terror.
The reports of the firearms disproved all this and showed beyond question that the Texans were good men, ready to defend their property and the youths with them, no matter how great the risks to themselves.
Placing my firearms before me on the saddle head, I bent forward in order to be able to see and observe better.
From the midst of their sport they were suddenly roused by a discharge of firearms and a shrill war-whoop.
A volley of firearms by the savages dispelled his doubts, but so overpowered his nerves that he was unable to get into his saddle.
The majority of shops seem to deal chiefly in American and German made agricultural implements, machinery and tools, and in firearms and knives of all sizes and shapes.
The smugglers of firearms must have made huge profits on the sale of these antiquated weapons, for firearms are among the few articles for which large sums of ready money can be obtained in Persia.
In their imaginative minds they perceived my valued firearms being lost for ever, and predicted my being detained at the police station till it pleased les terribles Cossacques to let me proceed.
Very little tea is disembarked at Lingah, but dates and firearms were landed in considerable quantities, especially in 1897.
He was extremely civil; inquired whether he could be of any assistance, which was politely declined, and showed intense interest in my firearms and scientific instruments.
Is it not he who says himself able to repair firearms (guns), and do anything with them he pleases?
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And they also think that firearms are absolutely unable to injure them.
In the meanwhile, however, the inventor became disgusted with the struggle and began manufacturing firearms for the government.
Naturally we ship a good deal of water which wets everything through and through but the crew take this as a matter of course and bale it out at intervals while the boys take care the firearms are not injured.
It is however, necessary to have firearmscleaned and oiled nearly every day whether used or not.
With the advance in the use of firearms the value of the Norman horse in the art of war rapidly diminished.
At break of day a discharge of rockets and of firearms and peals upon the bells announced the joyful morn.
The Indians of the missions were not allowed to possess firearms at this period.
Montoya then pressed the demand for license to use firearms in self-defence against the Mamelucos.
Then, too, the firearms we carried were a further incentive to treachery--the king's mania to increase his stock of arms and ammunition being well known.
Life was not secure, for the Indian tribes sometimes raided up to the gates of the little towns, such as Cordova and Tucuman, but as the savages had no firearms and no discipline, it was generally easy to repulse them.
The Araucanians discovered by degrees tactics fitted to reduce the advantages whichfirearms gave to the Spaniards.
In the first encounters they suffered terribly from the firearms and the horses of the Spaniards.
Firearms were introduced among the Omaha prior to 1819, when Dougherty says that they preferred those called "Mackinaw guns.
He knows that many other men are afraid of pistols, and so he carries his firearms about in order that he may enjoy himself in playing bully.
Young men have no business carting firearms about unless they're hunting or going to war.
I'll serve out firearms to five or six of the men, and the next time Pete shows his face we'll cover him and march him miles away from camp.
If a fellow isn't afraid of anything, then why does he have to carry firearms to protect himself?
The display of firearms while disrobing seemed to be encouraged by the management for its moral effect, and to be a part of the ceremony of retiring.
He remembered the girl, who had already cost him a deflected glance, and he reproached himself that he could doubt her even as he doubted, but how could he know that she had not been passing in firearms or planning a release?
Ancient firearms decorated the walls, and odd pieces of strange clothing hung about in profusion.
He has a lot of six-barrelled firearms inside with three bullets in each barrel.
At night he used regularly to discharge his firearmsand load them again immediately afterwards.
The greater part of the mob shared this good opinion, and began to show their respect for firearms by clearing out of the courtyard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firearms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
