The popular ballad sings of him, that he fell with the pistol in his hand and the firelock by his side, come un fiero paladino--like a proud paladin.
The firelock could then be used for both missile and shock action, according to requirements.
I shall stay at home, so you can take my firelock with you, and buckle my whinger round your waist; in case of need it is a good and trusty weapon, if you only keep your presence of mind.
The bright-barrelled firelock of the Turkish sentinel, who was posted at the battery above the village, flashed as he trod his beat, in the fierce light which fell upon it.
When he entered he found it as dark inside as it was out; and he stumbled and felt his way along the walls; for he wanted to lay aside his firelock and his hunting-bag.
Per Gynt shouldered his firelock and shot the fox.
Then a voice called from a nearby hill: "Guard your boar, for understand, Per Gynt is without, With his firelock in his hand!
But just as he turned there came the shot of a firelockfrom higher up the hill; and with the very sound of it Glenure fell upon the road.
He was in the Black Watch, when first it was mustered; and, like other gentleman privates, had a gillie at his back to carry his firelock for him on the march.
And I shall never stand sentry nor carry a firelock again," he said; and from that time he spoke no more, but folded his hands and lay quiet, as if asleep.
Bill, eyeing the wire, and lamp in which Firelock was heating the wire.
In the confusion which ensued the horse which bore our hero was shot by one of Gilfillan's party, as he discharged his firelock at random.
As I said, he took the firelock from the poor wearied soldier, and gave it to his keeper.
The American hunter avails himself of this peculiarity to entrap the crane by presenting the barrel of his firelock to the animal; supposing it to be an eye, the crane immediately strikes at the hole, and fixes its beak firmly in the muzzle.
O’Brien sprang forward and wrested the firelock from his grasp.
On the azotea on each side a sentry paced up and down with his firelock on his shoulder.
I gave the Weasel money to purchase powder and ball, which we all lacked, and to buy for me a silver watch and a rifle or firelock to replace the loss of my own.
I turned in my stirrups, glancing fearfully at Renard, who was recovering his balance in the saddle behind me and lifting a firelock to the pommel.
Now my imagination smoking into fire, I saw myself dogging Mr. Butler with firelock a-trail and knife loosened, on!
We can get a post-chaise here"--he nodded towards the hostler who stood swinging his lamp in one hand and his firelock in t'other.
Then the rest of his party all made their appearance, each of them armed with firelock and pistols, and having with them the mules belonging to one of the parties of officers who had been going to Ronda.
He had not time to answer before one of the men approached me with his firelock to his shoulder, and said, in Spanish, "I can hit a sombrero at two hundred yards distance.
A little in advance was an English soldier, behind him, at the distance of some 400 yards, another soldier was running, shouting, with his firelock at the present.
On the first day Tom Firelock was rather too liberal to his brother Jack Tar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firelock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
