Oh, for a musket or a petronel With which to send his devil's soul to hell!
This came like a sob; but he quickly recovered himself, and went and placed hismusket in the corner by the door.
Just then the sergeant entered in fine spirits, and set the butt-end of his musket on the floor.
That is well," said he, "but go and take yourmusket and cartridge-box.
He was in marching equipments, with his gaiters on his legs, his large gray cap turned up at the sides, his musket on his shoulder, and his sabre and cartridge-box on his back.
When I think that the time is near when you will go in the midst of musket and bayonet fire--in the midst of thunder and lightning!
For my part, I ran home to tell about it all; I had scarcely gone up, when the sergeant came also, with his musket on his shoulder.
At first the man did not seem to hear him, but after a moment he raised his musket to his shoulder with a rough movement, and went down to the street, with his shoulders up and his face dark and furious.
He took the musket at once to his own room; but we were all horror-struck, and Zeffen could not recover herself.
The smoke of powder is red on account of the musket shots which light it up.
The country is like a bowl, so that when a man sits down, the horizon surrounds him all around at the distance of a musket shot.
The village was very strong, because it was up on a rock out of reach, having steep sides in every direction, and so high that it was a very good musket that could throw a ball as high.
Under such cover as we could get my men were now held within easy musket shot of the enemy.
Those of the regiment who bore the musket in the ranks equally deserve mention for what they did and for the sacrifices they made for their country; but the story of the 110th Ohio is elsewhere told.
He was himself wounded in the leg by a musket ball.
The old flint-lock muskethad theretofore been superseded by the percussion-lock musket, but some of the guns supplied to the troops were old, and altered from the flint-lock.
We climbed a mountain spur and soon reached a position within rifle-musket range of the enemy which completely commanded his guns and fortifications.
That the enemy was at hand, however, was soon made evident, as musket shots were heard, and a few stray bullets passed over the men's heads.
There is no denying the fact that fearful crimes were committed by the British soldiers in Badajoz that night, for each man carried his loaded musket and his bayonet, and brooked no interference with his revels.
As he ate his supper the old soldier gazed at his musket which was hanging on the wall, and exclaimed: "Hey, my lad, how you would go at the Prussians if you were big enough!
I was behind my friend; so, finally, I asked him to hold my musket while I dropped out and got a drink.
It was a very hot night, and my musket was very heavy.
If I had had any doubts about that, I would have borrowed another musket for him.
And Hancock, when roused from his sleep at midnight, was hot with the desire to take his musket and fight on Lexington Green.
Others of them caught a countryman who had been decoyed into buying a musket from a soldier, and tarred and feathered him.
Gilbert now observed that, instead of a bow and quiver of arrows, he carried a musket in his hand.
First, to pay my duty to your Majesty; secondly, to offer myself to carry a musket among your guards.
Tom had been slashing with his sickle in his right hand, and warding off with the musket in his left the blows of Arab swords and Manyema spears.
He had no weapon but the musket got in the forest, and that, in default of ammunition, he could only use as a club.
He saw the look of exultation in the negro's fierce eyes, but the force of the blow caused the assailant to recoil; before he could recover, Tom was in under his guard and with the butt of the musket struck him square between the eyes.
Most of the Arabs were attacking with scimitar in their right hand and clubbed musket in their left.
Tom ducked his head; the pistol struck with a dull crack on the skull of the man behind; with the stock of his musket he parried the cut and sprang forward at his enemy.
He was swinging the chain upon his wrist like a flail, the Arab using the musket in his left hand to parry its clanking strokes.
He came now, with his right shoulder bound up, and his musket in his left hand, determined to wreak vengeance in person for the treacherous blow dealt him.
He walked along as well as he could, stooping occasionally to avoid creepers, using his musket now as a staff, now as a means of fending off obstructions.
He seemed like one who had felt the sharp sting of a musket bullet sent into his body by a hand unseen--uncertain of the nature of the wound, or of the aim by which it is produced.
Lame as I was, I hobbled around briskly, and soon secured a good musket with a supply of cartridges.
The fighting was severe and deadly, for we were now within easy musket range.
At that moment the report of a musket was heard without the tent, and simultaneously a bullet whistled through the canvas.
Some soldier, whose musket has gone off by accident," suggested Colonel Harding.
At equal distances round the camp others stood upright and motionless, the gleam of the musket showing the sentry on his silent post.
So little indeed was pursuit dreamt of, that the column began to straggle, and to march without much regard to order; when suddenly the bugle sounded from the rear, and immediately after some musket shots were heard.
With the sagacity of a veteran, Grey instantly guessed how matters stood: he was the first to hail the suspicious stranger; and on receiving no answer to his challenge, he was the first to fire a musket in the direction of her anchorage.
As yet not a musket had been fired, nor a word spoken on either side, but the enemy, now raising a shout, fired a volley from right to left, and then kept up a rapid and ceaseless discharge of musketry.
As they sang, I watched to see the sentinel on the craigs turn him about to listen to us, and noted the light glance on his sword, and on the barrel of the musket on which he leaned.
At first I thought that each turn of the sentry would surely bring him up the trap-door with sword and musket pointed at me, and I had little comfort in my lodging.
Ye shall ride the timber horse with a bit musket at your heels to learn ye how siccarly to sit your beast.
He had no fewer than six wounds from musket balls upon him.
At which, quick as the echo of his oath, there rose one from the heather at our back and fired a musket at him.
Then he leaned his musket against the wall and went within.
Once he took the butt of his musket and gave the door, within which I lay, a sharp fling to.
We were passing by the path that goes linking along the water-side, and talking to one another very cantily, when without warning a musket barked from the woodside, and as it were a red-hot gaud of iron ran into my thigh behind my knee.
So we spurred on as briskly as we dared, not knowing but that we might again hear the whistle of musket balls about our ears.
Suddenly a sepoy leaned out of the window of a house close by and pointed his musket at the tall, commanding figure beneath him.
Hector seeing his opportunity, allowed them to pass until the rear was within musket shot of him.
When they went upon any excursion they were each armed with a loaded musket and plenty of ammunition, determined never to be taken prisoners alive.
I found the old negro laying dead on his crawl, or bed, a musket ball having passed through his body.
One man stood before him with a musket and another with a cutlass, they knocked him down and beat him for some time, took him by the hair and said they would kill him.
He took his station by the windlass, when a musket was fired at him; he was then driven into the cabin.
On begging them to desist from this design, I was again knocked down; on rising, a musket was pointed at me and one of the villains made several passes at me with a dagger, which I avoided by running forward.
I stooped to lay her gently on the ground, when a musket was fired not three paces behind me.
Four of the strongest companies garrisoned the Porc-Espic; ten weak companies and nine cannon loaded with musket bullets defended the Helmond.
The others hesitated, until a shot from a musket knocked off one of their hats, whereupon the man and his comrades turned their horses' heads and rode off at full speed.
The planting was set aside for the children to finish, the oldmusket rubbed up, and with set lips and resolute eyes the three men walked away one May morning to join the Nepash company.
She glanced wildly at her great-grandmother's musketover the shelf.
Dolly was her mother's right hand now; and the twins, Ralph and Reuben, could fire the musket and chop wood.
Over the kitchen shelf hung an old musket with which her great-grandmother, guarding her home and children, had shot an Indian.
The Tartar only waited until the man had come nearer, and then, placing his long musket on the moulding of the gate, began to take aim with it.
Whilst thou wert still under the water it occurred to me to fill thy musket with earth and gird thy dagger to my side.
But don't hold your musket so near to me, it may go off of its own accord.
Above the palisaded gate the torso of a square-headed Tartar was visible, with his elbows resting on the ramparts, holding his long musket in his hand.
A shepherd on a very steep and high cliff playing upon his pipe; very different from Arcadia, where I saw the pastors with a long musket instead of a crook, and pistols in their girdles.
The other man dropped his musket and made off at full speed.
The men turned and faced him, each with a musket in his hands.
At that moment the barrel of a musket was pushed close to his face.
Some distance away he met with two more sepoys standing at bay, each armed with a musket to which a bayonet was fixed.
Tubbs, who was but partly awake, sprang to his feet and made a step forward as if to interfere, but seeing the sentry pointing his musket at his head, he sat down again.
