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Example sentences for "harquebuss"

Lexicographically close words:
harps; harpsichord; harpsichords; harpy; harquebusiers; harrass; harrassed; harrassing; harrd; harridan
  1. I entreat that not a harquebuss be fired on your part, and we will not fire upon you.

  2. When he was there he had a cannon and a harquebuss fired to show the might of the European arms.

  3. The answer was returned in a still louder laugh, and in a shot fired at the challenger, the momentary light of the explosion revealing, as Dauntrees imagined, a cloaked figure presenting a harquebuss through the window.

  4. I like him not, with his laced band and feather, his book and lute: harquebuss and whinyard are the tools for these days.

  5. In the doing so we were mightily alarmed by a shot from a harquebuss from one of the ships in the bay.

  6. I rowed myself ashore in the afternoon, and harquebuss in hand made search of all the many promontories and their secret recesses for the Finn.

  7. Ambrogio, who had left his harquebuss at home, not expecting to meet him, 'was consequently on that occasion unable to do anything.

  8. When I came up with him, I seized the reins with my left hand and with my right I set my harquebuss against his side, pushing it with such violence that if it had failed to go off it would at any rate have dislodged him from his seat.

  9. On each and all of these occasions, the sword was ready to the right hand; and where this generous weapon would not reach, the harquebuss and knife of paid assassins were employed without compunction.

  10. The first impulse of his surprise was to free his harquebuss by a violent exertion, which made the King stagger backward into the hall.

  11. Would that the next Scottish Archer who has his harquebuss pointed at thee, may not let thee off so easily as I did!

  12. Give the harquebuss to one of these knaves--to Oliver--to any one.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harquebuss" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.