harquebus
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The Pilgrim gained a foothold with his harquebus.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They fighting with their great ordnance," writes Medina Sidonia, "and we with harquebus fire and musketry, the distance being very small."
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
Here's a fine blade, now, and a musket—give me a harquebus; I could shoot once, but my arm is all of a wamble now.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
The old-fashioned harquebus stood side by side with the modern repeating rifle, the cylindrical iron sword by the steel bladed modern sword-stick, the heavy bronze pistol by the plated revolver.
From The Fourth Estate, vol.1 by Palacio Vald?s, Armando
Near the skeleton lay a helmet of hammered brass and a corroded breastplate of steel while at one side was a long, straight sword in its scabbard and an ancient harquebus.
From Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
The Spanish had crossbows, harquebuses and armor- clad horses, none of which the natives had ever seen.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when the four harquebus men set up their iron rests, fixed the harquebuses, and firing cut leaves and twigs from the same tree, there was a louder crying.
From 1492 by Johnston, Mary
There were "demilances" riding on great horses; gunners with harquebuses and wheel-locks; archers in white coats, bearing bent bows and sheafs of arrows; pikemen in bright corslets; and bill-men with aprons of mail.
From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)
"Not muskets, nor harquebuses, but anything that will dint a blow."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
Besides harquebuses for the soldiers, there were many kinds of cannon with strange names, such as culverins, falconets, sakers, serpentines, and rabinets.
From Introductory American History by Bourne, Henry Eldridge
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