...morning among spears, pikes, swords, scabbards, helmets, bows and arrows, arquebuses...standards...saddlery. The King admired a Toledo sword and a p...

...ally gardening and gunnery. He was the inventor of an improved lock to the arquebus, and first divined how to adapt the disposition of his troops to t... ...melee became general; shots were fired, not only from cross-bows, but from arquebuses, and in the throng Friedel lost sight of the main combat between... ...he count’s sword in the chest was not the most serious injury, but that an arquebus ball had pierced his thigh, before burying itself in the body of h... ...asonable answer. Greater havoc of warriors do they make than ever with the arquebus—ay, even when every lanzknecht bears one.” “Alack!” Ebbo could not... ... “Freiherr Eberhard, take my word for it, while thou thus holdest, all the arquebuses yet to be cut out of the Black Forest will not mar thy chivalry....

...w in recognition. “Have you here any balsam fit for a plaguey shot with an arquebuss, the like of which our poor peaceful house never looked to harbou... ... but she found by her arts what they were doing, fled, and was slain by an arquebuss in the form of a hare! “Do you believe it was herself in sooth?” ... ...nd her own old squire.” “Then, sir, you deem that in slaying the hare, the arquebusier rid you of your witch wife?” There was a little bitterness, eve...

...khill Park, they became aware of a company whose steel caps and shouldered arquebuses did not look like those of huntsmen. Mary bounded in her saddle,... ...increase the guard, but who did not know how to shoulder, load, or fire an arquebus, had no command of their own limbs, and, if put to stand sentry, w...

... them out riding frequently, though always with four gendarmes with loaded arquebuses, so as to preclude all attempt at escape, or con- versation with... ...ery assailant who tried to throw his fagot into the moat became a mark for arquebus or pistol, and the weapons that had so lately hung over the hearth...

...he gallant greyhounds strain; Whistles the arrow from the bow, Answers the arquebuss below; While all the rocking hills reply, To hoof-clang, hound, a...

... by the ball, and shook his head. The ball was not a musket ball—it was an arquebus ball. The accuracy of the aim had first given him the idea that a ... ...not long; the wretch had nothing to defend himself with but his discharged arquebus. The sword of the Guardsman slipped along the barrel of the now-us... ...by force of ter- ror. “I will go—I will go!” D’Artagnan took the soldier’s arquebus, made him go on before him, and urged him toward his companion by ...

...ars as the deep bass voice let itself go. ‘The morning gun—Ho, steady! the arquebuses to me! I ha’ sounded the Dutch High Admiral’s heart as my lead d...

...ring the night horses had galloped at a smart pace over the Buytenhof, the heavy tramp of the patrols had resounded from the pavement, and the slow ma...

...fortunately, destroyed, amused, or seemed to amuse Christophe, on whom the arquebusiers of the guard were raining jests. “He would like to live there,... ...s II. as quickly as possible toward the Council-chamber. When the sound of arquebuses, dropping heavily on the floor, had announced the entrance of th... ... intelligent in conse- quence. His was an abscess caused by the blow of an arquebuse. The second was on the head of a pauper, on whom I wanted to prov...

...om the wars of the League. Eustace even came upon one of the old-fashioned arquebuses standing on three legs to be fired; and, what was worse, there w...

... his cabinet. Broussel’s son was there, still furious, and still bearing bloody marks of his struggle with the king’s officers. The only precaution he... ...er bourgeoisie. They were stand- ing motionless, while single men passed from one group to another. All these cloaks, gray or black, were raised be- h... ...s had been be- sieged—he was ready to receive the Comte de la Fere and the Chevalier d’Herblay. He was in bed, but surrounded with all the paraphernal...

... “By sleight of sword we may not win, But scuffle ‘mid uncleanly smoke Of arquebus and culverin. Honour is lost, and none may tell Who paid good blow...