The unwieldy old man, lowering his big forehead like an ox under a yoke, made an effort to rise, clutching at the flintlock pistols on his knees.
The flintlock musket ignited the powder in the external pan by striking flint against steel when the trigger was pulled, and it was a concealable weapon which could also be used in rainy weather, since it did not require a burning cord.
All had flintlockpistols in their belts, the usual precaution in an island of unruly indentures.
Katherine looked back to see him still standing; he had dropped the flintlock onto the table, both muzzles trailing wisps of gray smoke, while his right hand gripped the stock of the other pistol, still in his belt.
Then he saw Winston's flintlock lying on the table.
Unlike the others he carried no musket this morning, only a long flintlock pistol wedged into his belt.
But the liquor only served to sharpen his horrifying memory of the man he had killed less than an hour before, his finger on the trigger of the ornate flintlock now resting so innocently on the oak table between them.
He quickly checked the prime on his flintlock musket and cocked it.
He might have passed for an ordinary seaman had it not been for the two Spanish flintlock pistols, freshly polished and gleaming, that protruded from his wide belt.
As they waded through the mud, each carrying a flintlock musket and a pike, they dragged the dugouts ashore and into the brush.
Morris looked back to see the muzzle of Winston's second flintlock leveled at his temple.
The Great Cabin was empty save for Colonel Richard Morris, now seated at the center table and rubbing the dirt off Jeremy's flintlock musket.
To kill people with arrows is barbarous; to kill them with smooth-bores and flintlock muskets is semi-civilized; to kill them with breech-loading rifles is civilized.
He therefore directed his attention to the manufacture offlintlock guns; but here he was foiled.
Nevertheless he half-cocked his cumbersome flintlock and marched beside Gerald.
Silver glittered about the flintlockand the hardwood stock of his gun.
The parted edges disclosed also the butts of two flintlock pistols.
No, sir; me and the old flintlock will live and die together.
He put the hammer of his flintlock on half-cock, poured fine-grained priming powder on the pan from a small flask, and closed the fizzen over it.
White Bear heard the click of a flintlock hammer being drawn back to full-cock.
Her eyes came to rest at last upon the old flintlock rifle over the mantel-shelf, beneath the wooden, grim-faced Kildare who had carried it.
He took the old flintlock to the gunsmith and had it fixed over into a cap lock, and now I was rigged out with both gun and traps.
I would beg father to let me take the gun (which was an old double barreled flintlock shot gun) and watch the lick.
It was a cumbersome, heavy thing, firing with a flintlock action, and it could not be loaded with much powder lest the charge burst the barrel.
The boy followed, and then the master took his seat in the stern, with his flintlock fowling piece within reach.
While the wretch was making this appeal, Browne was silently engaged in emptying the priming of his flintlock fowling piece, picking open the tube, and then filling the pan with fresh powder from the horn at his side.
A halting then, a steady, purposeful raising of the flintlock until Reuben must stare down into the small black eye of the muzzle and understand that it was all over.
Ben remembered the explosion of Sabbath quiet into screams and shots, Father snatching the flintlock from its deerhorn rack and Mother gone very white, hurrying himself and four-year-old Reuben up to the garret.
Goodman Cory had halted short of the window, crucified by uncertainty, the flintlock a stiff burden.
A French officer ten yards away in the corrupted snow gracefully lifted his flintlock and shot Goodman Cory through the heart.
It was still a long shot from him, as he had only a smooth-bore, flintlock gun.
I have known an old Indian, with only two old flintlock guns, kill seventy-five large grey geese in one day.
We would strike fire by means of the flintlock gun which we had with us.
Like all men in the backwoods, he carried a hatchet and a knife stuck in his belt, and he almost always had his old-fashioned flintlock rifle on his right shoulder.
But there were no wires; there was no electricity; only one flint-lock musket waking up another flintlock musket, till a hundred guns had been fired, and a hundred men were marching to the battle.
Percussion caps had not yet been invented, but Bushnell took the flintlock from a musket and had it snapped by clockwork that could be wound up and set for any desired length of time.
He was surprised and excited, the trigger of his flintlock trade gun pulled hard, and his shot went wide.
Suiting the action to the word, the old hunter laid his flintlock rifle across his knees, and with deliberation fixed the priming anew in the pan.
It was unimportant settlements like the one we are describing that sent their quota of stout hearts and flintlock muskets to the trenches on Bunker Hill.
There is a chord in almost every bosom, however rough and unharmonious its ordinary emotions, which fails not to vibrate beneath the gentle influences of "sweet sounds.
Between the lengthened parallel ridges stretch the ravines by which the prairie is drained; and, owing to the depth and tenacity of the soil, they are sometimes almost impassable.
You'll find us all ready for you up there with an automobile full of flintlock rifles and things.
Here each lad was given a flintlock rifle and sent over to the mouth of the cave, where Ethan Allen and a half-dozen Green Mountain Boys were waiting, seated about a camp fire.
A number of the men also carried longflintlock guns.
Then the quick ringing of a rifle broke through the dull thud of the flintlock and the pistol's second crack, and Maxwell, reeling a little, hurled himself into the thicket.
For a space he and his followers smashed through that strip of jungle, but found only a smoking rifle and one flintlock gun; then calling off the rest, he led them back to the path.
A few picked men in flowing white draperies with flintlock guns on their shoulders were already floundering through the swamp ahead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flintlock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
