A steel ramrod from a musket is a wild whipping thing, and Phil is right -- it kicks like a bronco. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Ramrods and Broken Noses] Reference
An aborigine looking at a musket is interesting but irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [A Sociological Phenomenon] Reference
Still the men moved on steadily, resistlessly, until they came within musket range. From Wordnik.com. [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference
A 6-year-old girl with musket is dressed to celebrate el Cinco de Mayo in Mexico City. From Wordnik.com. [Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?] Reference
Some losses were inflicted on the besiegers as they continued to push their works to within short musket-range of the fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815] Reference
The musket was a long, heavy, unmanageable instrument. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
The gypsy roared at the idea of calling his musket a "rural fife!". From Wordnik.com. [Debts of Honor] Reference
When the 2nd ammendment was written a musket was the technology of the day. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Against them a musket is a good weapon, as they are much afraid of fire-arms. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07] Reference
The discharge of the musket was the signal to those within hearing that somebody was about. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America] Reference
The most interesting process, perhaps, in the manufacture of the musket is the operation of stocking. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
Back of the musket was the blunderbuss, and back of these were the portcullis, the moat, the spear and coats of mail. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists] Reference
The most costly of the various parts of the musket is the barrel, which, when completed, is estimated at three dollars. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
The French did not use rifles, preferring the faster musket, but a musket was a clumsy weapon compared to the slow-loading Baker. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Whether that handle might be a "musket" or a "spear," no one could say. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play] Reference
True, a musket is a little heavier than a yardstick, but isn't it a rather more manly weapon?”. From Wordnik.com. [Artemus Ward] Reference
Note the oval shaped hole near the bottom end that has been suggested may have been for breech loading the 'musket'. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
Every line beyond musket shot was a frontier-line. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"Give it me, and I will reach thee this musket," said the judge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
= Heavy muzzle-loading musket requiring two men to carry and fire it. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
In one place a tree, eighteen inches in diameter, was cut entirely down by musket balls. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
You can hold a musket and shoot as good as a man, without doubt, so should make a good soldier. From Wordnik.com. [The Dare Boys of 1776] Reference
While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
In this extremity one of the women took a musket-ball and placing it between her teeth bit it into pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Mrs. Coolidge now, for the first time, discovered blood dripping from a wound made by a musket-ball in her bridle-arm. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
It is quite certain I did not break my sword, for I had none to break, but I bent my musket pretty bad on one occasion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
But while he wanted above all things to conceal his approach, a Frenchman fired his musket, run off and alarmed the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
And he's been trudging in them for hours, all the while toting the musket and bayonet of an 18th-century Continental Army soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Daughter Of The Revolution ?] Reference
I did not slow until one of the soldiers, waving his foraging cap from the jagging bayonet of his musket, ripped me back to the moment. From Wordnik.com. [Confederates] Reference
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