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"Fusil" Quotes from Famous Books

... station a man of your guard in the angle of the staircase where it looks along each corridor. Pick out your prettiest cross-bowmen, for it were not seemly that my guests should be disturbed by the rude shots and villanous reek of the fusil." ...

— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett

... avez tu un homme, allez dans le maquis de Porto-Vecchio, et vous y vivrez en sret, avec un bon fusil, de la poudre et des balles; n'oubliez pas un manteau brun garni d'un capuchon, qui sert de couverture et de matelas. Les bergers vous donnent du lait, du fromage et des chtaignes, et vous n'aurez rien craindre de la justice ou des parents du mort, si ce n'est quand il vous faudra descendre ...

— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen

... fils du roi s'en va chassant En roulant, ma boule! Avec son grand fusil d'argent En ...

— The Young Alaskans on the Trail • Emerson Hough

... nearer still. I see the great moose bull, with his hind foot in the wolf trap. He also sees me. I raise a great shout. A quoi bon?—What good is it? He comes for me. Voulez-vous?—I say. So I fire my fusil—gun—at him. Still he comes, for now I remember I only had shot for partridge in that gun. J'ai chaud—I am hot. He makes me so, he looks so fierce. His great ears, his long face, all his hair point toward me. I turn, I run. So does he run, but it is toward me. Still he ...

— Winter Adventures of Three Boys • Egerton R. Young

... "les Cahiers du capitaine Coignet." Fricasse is a volunteer who enlists in the defence of the country; Coignet is a conscript ambitious of distinguishing himself, and he says to his masters: "I promise to come back with the fusil d'honneur or I shall ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine

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