How To Use Arquebus In A Sentence
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As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance.
Blood Ninja II
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In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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Champlain appears to be carrying a light arquebus that Paulin-Desormeaux calls a fusil de chasse, a hunting weapon; ibid., 1:184-93; for a more extended discussion, see below, chapter 12, and Appendix L.
Champlain's Dream
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In 1609–10, Champlain fought the Mohawk with this arquebuse à rouet, a wheel lock weapon that did not require a burning match.
Champlain's Dream
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In terms of accuracy, the arquebus was unable to match the accuracy of a bow in the hands of a highly-skilled archer.
Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related
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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.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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Meantime, the Spanish Colunellas, in which the Spanish put most of their faith, approached the Venetian line of arquebus and cannon defending the hill and central wood.
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Ruby had taken the relic piece -- more relative to the harquebus than to the current fashion in rifles -- and hunted wild turkey and deer through the winter, jerking the venison by the fire like an Indian.
Cold Mountain
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A midshipman, he arrived aboard the Dordrecht serving as an arquebusier.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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He had both dagger and arquebus, and I my hand petronel and dagger too.
A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
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For example, bowstrings were easily split, spear shafts easily broken and use of the arquebus often dictated by the weather.
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Along the brink of the bog, picking their road among crumbling rocks and green spongy springs, a company of English soldiers are pushing fast, clad cap-a-pie in helmet and quilted jerkin, with arquebus on shoulder, and pikes trailing behind them; stern steadfast men, who, two years since, were working the guns at
Westward Ho!
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C: 2 Colunella, 1 unit Italian arquebus (SK), 1 unit mounted crossbows (SK).
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Raising the harquebus, Sulu fired and was almost knocked down by the heavy weapon.
Shadow Lord
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Ambrogio then made his way back to his lodgings, recharged his harquebuss, ate some supper and went to bed.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.
Champlain's Dream
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The Spanish adopted their usual tactic of forming up their arquebusiers behind a stout fieldwork, and keeping their foot and cavalry in reserve behind these.
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I also see a modern U. S.-made rifle, an AK-47, or a harquebus from the times of the Spanish conquistadors.
Mexican Newspaper Interviews Fidel Castro Part IX Comments on Insurgencies
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One of the squires heard this, and raising the butt – end of his harquebuss would no doubt have broken Sancho's head with it had not Roque Guinart called out to him to hold his hand.
Don Quixote
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The soldiers formed the celebrated corps of the janissaries (Turkish Yeni cheri, ‘new troops’) These infantrymen took to the use of handguns in the form of arquebuses and, later, the more manageable early forms of musket.
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The arquebus was fairly common throughout the length of Japan by 1580, but often in short supply in the more remote regions.
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The rest were all sailors, but among them there were Columbus's secretary, an alguazil, or person commissioned in the civil service at home, an "arquebusier," who was also a good engineer, a tailor, a ship carpenter, a cooper and a physician.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
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Calling it an "arquebus" would be stretching the point.
The Shadow Of The Lion
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Hee shott in a harquebuse at birds, wherein hee was so perfect and excellent, as hee did kill larkes as they were flying.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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His equipment was soon complete, and, with his harquebuss on his shoulder (for though they retained the name of Archers, the Scottish Guard very early substituted firearms for the long bow, in the use of which their nation never excelled), he followed Master Oliver out of the barrack.
Quentin Durward
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He had infantry, cavalry, arquebusiers, Cossacks and many Tartars, with heavy artillery, which was shipped down the Volga.
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Ruby had taken the relic piece — more relative to the harquebus than to the current fashion in rifles — and hunted wild turkey and deer through the winter, jerking the venison by the fire like an Indian.
Cold Mountain
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A nearby harquebusier, who had just finished reloading his gun, heard the sound and on some sudden impulse he raised the weapon and shook it carefully so that the bells at the ends of the ribbons rang as well.
Shadow Lord
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An arquebusier aimed at a stag and wounded an Indian warrior, which threatened to disrupt the expedition.
Champlain's Dream
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He fought the Mohawk and Onondaga with wooden armor and an early firearm called the arquebus
A Forgotten Explorateur
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Without the mastery of the language, his weapons were useless; it would be like using a harquebus as a club instead of firing it.
MALINCHE
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The other man cannot be identified, but was also a skilled arquebusier.
Champlain's Dream
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He had been taught fencing as a part of his education, and would use the singlestick, arquebus, and crossbow, while the fashion of every gentleman wearing a sword had rendered it necessary that this weapon should be handled skilfully.
Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War
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It was also an arquebuse de chasse, a weapon light enough to be fired from the shoulder without a fork.
Champlain's Dream
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Malinalli had not yet finished translating these last words when the discharge of a harquebus signaled the beginning of the slaughter.
MALINCHE
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The apparition of Catherine Seyton, which the page had let loose in the first moment of astonishment, vanished in darkness; but the plash of oars was heard, and, in a second or two, five or six harquebuses and a falconet were fired from the battlements of the castle successively, as if levelled at some object on the water.
The Abbot
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Consult the codex of our heritage a little more, d'Arquebus.
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The Japanese use of the arquebus was a considerable element in their success.
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Quentin instantly fired his harquebuss — a man groaned and fell, and he himself, under the instant but vague discharge of a number of pieces, the fire of which ran in a disorderly manner along the column, and showed it to be very numerous, hastened back to the main guard.
Quentin Durward
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The arquebus constructed in this manner was used in England in the time of Henry VIII., and was variously called haquebut, hakebut, hagbut, and hagbus, names all derived from the hooked shape of the butt.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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A midshipman, he arrived aboard the Dordrecht serving as an arquebusier.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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In short, Champlain fought at Lake Champlain, and probably at the Rivière des Iroquois and the Onondaga Village, with an arquebuse à rouet that was fired by a wheel lock.
Champlain's Dream
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If you are not hunting with a match-lock arquebus, while wearing hose and a whale bone corset, you're not a "traditionalist.
Electrifying Muzzleloaders: CVA's New Electronic Ignition System
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Betwixt the third couple of towers were the butts for arquebus, crossbow, and arbalist.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
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Bottom line: Crossbow has the best range, longbow has the best rate of fire and arquebus has the best damage dice coupled with ease of use.
Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related
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This early model was called an arquebuse à croc, after the crutch that was needed to steady the weapon.
Champlain's Dream
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The back of his head was a bloody mess, and Taro saw the Ikko-ikki arquebusier, a hundred paces back up the hill, kneeling, reloading.
Blood Ninja II
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And besides here are none of the old-time machines as elsewhere along our front; not a catapult, or bricole, or bible -- as some, with wicked facetiousness, have named a certain invention for casting huge stones; nor have we yet heard the report of a cannon, or arquebus, or bombard, although we know the enemy has them in numbers.
The Prince of India — Volume 02
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The booklet directs the attention of the young traveler to the superb decoration which masters applied to swords, arbalests, and arquebus.
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Another harquebusier raised his gun and imitated the sound.
Shadow Lord
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During six months spent by the "mendacious" Pinto on the island, the imitative people made no fewer than six hundred match-locks or arquebuses.
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
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The arquebuse à rouet was an advanced model of a very costly weapon.
Champlain's Dream
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The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing.
Champlain's Dream
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He paused, quaking even at his own eloquence; but the stranger made no reply, till, throwing aside his cloak, he drew out a hagbut or demi-hague as it was sometimes called, being a sort of small harquebuss, with its match ready kindled.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Consult the codex of our heritage a little more, d'Arquebus.
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I like him not, with his laced band and feather, his book and lute: harquebuss and whinyard are the tools for these days.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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It was all one to me if they decided on arquebuses; after a month spent listening to them prosing about jamming ramrods, and getting oil on my trousers, I found myself sharing the view of old General Scarlett, who once told me:
The Sky Writer
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However, the arquebus had a faster rate of fire than the most powerful crossbow, had a shorter learning curve than a longbow, and was more powerful than either.
Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related
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The infantry of early modern Europe combined the fire of gunpowder weapons - first the arquebus and then the matchlock musket - and the shock of cold steel.
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A. O. Paulin-Desormeaux, in his treatise on these weapons, called them the arquebuse de chasse, a hunting weapon.
Champlain's Dream
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And, as they continued to ply their oars, he called aloud, “Treason! treason!” rung the bell of the castle, and discharged his harquebuss at the boat.
The Abbot
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The first impulse of his surprise was to free his harquebuss by a violent exertion, which made the King stagger backward into the hall.
Quentin Durward
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Even before they got within arquebus shot the Venetian line seemed to waver under the accurate fire of the Spanish guns.
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Ah, d'Arquebus was the bold trailblazer, was he not?
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Don't bother, lad," Dr. Alquon sniffed, pointing his gilden arquebus at the savage's head.
Notes from the peanut gallery
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Hee shott in a harquebuse at birds, wherein hee was so perfect and excellent, as hee did kill larkes as they were flying ..
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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adj. - having strong armament. armipotence, n. adj. - resounding with the clash of arms. arquebus (e), harquebus
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It was also typical that the prosecutor would have enlisted someone else to deliver it, one of the lads who regarded Arkady as ancient and as unpredictable as a loaded harquebus.
Three Stations : An Arkady Renko Novel
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For my own part, I confess I cannot forbear starting when the rattle of a harquebuse thunders in my ears on a sudden, and in a place where I am not to expect it, which I have also observed in others, braver fellows than I.
The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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The arquebus was a matchlock weapon that used a trigger for the first and was found to be effective.
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Although at first sight the themes presented in the triptych seem extremely wide-ranging, they are actually linked, for St Christopher was the Arquebusiers' patron saint.
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Arabe harquebuse, Albondoukani signifie l'arquebusier; c'était comme on le voit, le mot d'ordre dit Khalyfe.
Arabian nights. English
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Mary could see Riccio grab on to the bedpost in the bedroom, only to have his fingers clubbed with the stock of a harquebus.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
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Four front row stands of arquebus backed by two stands of sword and buckler men and two stands of pike the latter placed centrally.
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These weapons were reported by contemporary writers to weigh in the range of 8.5 to 15 pounds, less than an arquebuse à croc.
Champlain's Dream
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Throwing his helmet away, he strode forward a dozen paces and turned a startled harquebusier around.
Shadow Lord
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“Is your harquebuss loaded?” replied Oliver, without answering his query.
Quentin Durward
