He fought the Mohawk and Onondaga with wooden armor and an early firearm called the arquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Forgotten Explorateur] Reference

Calling it an "arquebus" would be stretching the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Of The Lion]

Another man carried an enormous, full-length matchlock arquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

"If you could shoot an arquebus as well as you shirk your duty -".    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

I had no idea what an arquebus was and looked it up in the dictionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [between silk and cyanide]

He had both dagger and arquebus, and I my hand petronel and dagger too.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa] Reference

He was half hidden by yonder tree, but I saw the barrel of his arquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Admiral] Reference

C: 2 Colunella, 1 unit Italian arquebus (SK), 1 unit mounted crossbows (SK).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Battle of Ferrara - 20th December 2007] Reference

Tom Turner seized the arquebus, which was resting against a cleat on the rail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robur the Conqueror] Reference

He owned a conventional arquebus in the style of Marshal Totz, King Pitz the first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to be a god]

Spaniards, but were beaten off, and Arouj lost an arm, shattered by an arquebus shot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Before he got out the last words, an arquebus went off with a roar on the floor below.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow Of The Lion]

Taking up the arquebus he looked at the priming, and made his way cautiously to the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

"Don't bother, lad," Dr. Alquon sniffed, pointing his gilden arquebus at the savage's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

D: Landsknecht pike (15 stands), 1 unit Italian arquebus (SK), 1 unit mounted arquebus (SK).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

The arquebus is mentioned by Philip de Comines, in his account of the battle of Morat, in 1476.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

The assassin, straddling the wall, struck him furiously with his arquebus, and my comrade fell.    From Wordnik.com.  [For The Admiral] Reference

Pierrebon then advanced a couple of paces nearer, still holding the arquebus at Malsain's breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

In terms of accuracy, the arquebus was unable to match the accuracy of a bow in the hands of a highly-skilled archer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related] Reference

Pierre was searching the horizon from under a red, hairy hand, and Labarthe was looking to the priming of his arquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

Clad in their flowing robes, so little suited to war, armed with the arquebus and the scimitar -- in their hands more than.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

On our coming up to the Porte St. Michel the guard challenged us, threatening to fire with his arquebus if we did not halt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

A ravelin in advance of the fortress on the land side was scourged without ceasing by the arquebus fire of the Janissaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

He received an arquebus-shot in his right ankle, and fell to the ground at once, and then said, "Now they have got the Rat.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

The arquebus had a contrivance, suggested by the trigger of the cross-bow, to convey at once the burning match to the trigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach] Reference

It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America'] Reference

My belief is that there was no poison; but the severe cutlass and arquebus wounds, and the extreme cold, were the cause why so many died.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related] Reference

A furious clothier levelled an arquebus full at his breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The page, without a word, placed his arquebus to the admiral's forehead and shot him dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The grocers, the market-men, the members of the arquebus and crossbow clubs, all doated on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The king dashing down a hill received an arquebus shot in his side, but still rode for his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

The Marquis del Vasto rode at the head of the forces surrounded by a band of mounted arquebus men.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference