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"Make way, guns, mitrailleuses, and cannons," cried Briand, "for understanding, arbitration and peace!"

From Time Magazine Archive

A fight between them is unequal, and the inequality is not easily overcome, for the German machines are too light for mitrailleuses.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

Fifty-six Imperial eagles, 622 field and 876 fortress guns, 72 mitrailleuses and 260,000 rifles fell into the hands of the Germans.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count

Dennis Deventer, who never missed anything in the works, noted the men's behaviour, but continued his exposition of the secret of preventing the jamming of the mitrailleuses.

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

They usually do, as the majority of German aeronauts carry only rifles; the French now all have mitrailleuses.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various