What is training center going to do with a fifteenth century harquebus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PRESS CONFERENCE ON PRESENCE OF SOVIET TROOPS] Reference

I also see a modern U. S.-made rifle, an AK-47, or a harquebus from the times of the Spanish conquistadors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexican Newspaper Interviews Fidel Castro Part IX Comments on Insurgencies] Reference

Mary could see Riccio grab on to the bedpost in the bedroom, only to have his fingers clubbed with the stock of a harquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

In later ages students will say, "Ah, in Scotland a new player came to fight," just as we now study siege-machines and the catapult and the harquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Armory hall was a large and lofty chamber with vaulted ceiling, that dated back almost to the early Norman period; its walls, decorated in geometrical designs, were covered with many varieties of antique weapons of warfare; halberd and mace gleamed and mingled with harquebus, poleax or lance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half A Chance] Reference

Of these weapons there were two sorts, the musket and the harquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Pond; the heavy harquebus, which perhaps had levelled one of King Philip's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life] Reference

For that we might have trouble, four harquebus men and four crossbows were going.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492] Reference

Sire de Tancarville and the sentry who had killed him with a shot from his harquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crystal Stopper] Reference

The sentry, being a Gascon, incontinently twirl’d up his whiskers, and level’d his harquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [59. The Fragment. Paris] Reference

The harquebus-a-croc, a weapon almost exactly similar, threw small cross-bar shot "to cut Sails and Rigging.".    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

At the Admiral's command the harquebus and crossbow men laid their weapons down, though watchful eye was kept.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492] Reference

Well, a lot of Terrans in the Year Zero had never seen a suit of armor, or an harquebus, or even a tinder box or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naudsonce] Reference

Clothes, beads and hawk bells, cannon, harquebus, trumpet and banner, ship and sails, royal letters and blessing of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492] Reference

"They fighting with their great ordnance," writes Medina Sidonia, "and we with harquebus fire and musketry, the distance being very small.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Sea Power] Reference

This boat came to the island side, four harquebus-shot from our ships, and two of the people remaining there, the third came along the shore side toward us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonial Children] Reference

We find them on English ships at the end of the fourteenth century, in two kinds, the one a cannon proper, the other an early version of the harquebus-a-croc.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

But when the four harquebus men set up their iron rests, fixed the harquebuses, and firing cut leaves and twigs from the same tree, there was a louder crying.    From Wordnik.com.  [1492] Reference

Near the skeleton lay a helmet of hammered brass and a corroded breastplate of steel while at one side was a long, straight sword in its scabbard and an ancient harquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tarzan the Untamed] Reference

In the very shadow of the hill, the mounted English, well ahead of those on foot, Mexia's disordered band making for the shelter of the tunal, a Spaniard turned, raised his harquebus and fired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Mortimer] Reference

These windows were executed by Maestro Claudio and Guglielmo, although afterwards, during the sack of Rome, they were broken to pieces, in order to extract the lead to make harquebus-balls; and they were truly marvellous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo] Reference

Hey, I'm #1 in Oviedo Spain with Google Espania, "things all around me" - and the Serial Number of my match-rifle has "1492" to commemorate the advances made in firearms since the days of matchlock harquebus and arquebuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthroblogogy - on the brink of civilization, or off the edge...] Reference

The harquebus -- or hak-bus, hook-gun, so called because of the hook in the front part of the barrel to give steadiness in firing -- was much lighter, was discharged from the hand; and carried bullets of twenty-four to the pound.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Men hurried along the usually lonely road in groups, with weapons in their hands, — the old fowling-piece of seven-foot barrel, with which the Puritans had shot ducks on the river and Walden Pond; the heavy harquebus, which perhaps had levelled one of King.    From Wordnik.com.  [Septimius Felton, or, The elixir of life] Reference

One body, composed of the English contingent, together with three thousand French horse, three thousand Swiss, and four thousand French harquebus-men, were to be under his own immediate command, and were to act against the enemy wherever it should appear to his Majesty most advantageous.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

"I tell you, on the credit of a poor gentleman," he said, "that there were five hundred discharges of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin, from the Vanguard; and when I was farthest off in firing my pieces, I was not out of shot of their harquebus, and most time within speech, one of another.".    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

Adj. - having strong armament. armipotence, n. adj. - resounding with the clash of arms. arquebus (e), harquebus.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

A captain of infantry, died fighting valiantly before Turin in Piedmont, having been wounded by a harquebus-ball.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi] Reference

The fellow cleaning the harquebus replies that, while it would be nice to have more modern weapons, it is the Army’s way to make the best of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

The harquebus came in 1543.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perry Legacy] Reference