Allay-foozee, in its turn, comes from the French allez-fusil, meaning “Forward the muskets!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 4. Loan-Words and Non-English Influences] Reference

"A fusil is a bearing in heraldry made in the form of a spindle, with its yarn or thread wound about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

He moved his own fusil in a gesture meant to silence me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

Continental, un film sans fusil/Continental, a Film Without Guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year So Far - What Are Your Favorites? « FirstShowing.net] Reference

At last his strength could no longer support the weight of the fusil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

I took my fusil and pouch, according to my custom of never travelling without them.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference

GILBERT SICOTTE – Continental, un film sans fusil / Continental, a Film Without Guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Row Three » Recapping the Genie Winners - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference

MARIE-GINETTE GUAY – Continental, un film sans fusil / Continental, a Film Without Guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Row Three » Recapping the Genie Winners - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference

The fusil - lade below stopped short, as I had foreseen it would when the squirts got empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of Darkness] Reference

ANDRÉ-LINE BEAUPARLANT – Continental, un film sans fusil / Continental, a Film Without Guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Row Three » Recapping the Genie Winners - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions] Reference

Le moteur du 4×4 qui emmène les flibustiers est pulvérisé, depuis un hélico, par un tir de fusil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A French “success” story | Linguism] Reference

Clamping the fusil under what remained of his right arm, he released the buckle and handed the whole to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

(The name comes from a weapon the 23rd no longer used -- the fusil, a lightweight musket with a flintlock firing mechanism.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Seeing Red] Reference

The peasants who had captured us -- bold, tall fellows, well dressed and well armed with cutlass and fusil, in the style of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference

The other man shot at me with his fusil, but missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall] Reference

Had not my fusil been found in the hands of an enemy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

Alexis, meanwhile, had dropped his rifle and taken up the fusil of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference

Smiled as they said, "Well, Jim, you can give us our regular fusil.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Poetical Works] Reference

His only arms were a light fusil, which I had given him as a present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

Two or three more shots were fired with like effect; and the fusil of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference

W'en he's try cross de line, fusil on hee's han ', near place dey call.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems] Reference

Zeg-Zeg troops had one French fusil: the Kano forces had forty-one muskets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa] Reference

This hesitation vanished, and, placing my tomahawk and fusil upon the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

The Zeg-zeg troops had one French fusil, and the Kano force forty-one muskets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference

He took up his double-barrelled Spanish fusil, let it off, and killed the two monkeys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candide] Reference

He had then succeeded as to the lock both of the officer's fusil and the soldier's musket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference

Alais, and was there shot, but not until after he had killed three soldiers with his fusil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Huguenots in France] Reference