blunderbluss

• I totally agree with the MP (the audience faints in shock) and think this sort of blunderbluss spamming of MP's email and postbags is frankly just a waste of time. —  British Blogs
• Another kiss as they separated, and so it was arranged between them When Mogue Moylan heard that John purcel had gone to the gunsmith's for the blunderbluss, he stealthily sought the barn where he slept, and, putting on a great frieze coat, he went to the haggard; approached the stack, and thrusting his hand up the thatch, secured a case of pistols that had been left with him and Jerry Joyce for their defence, and fixing them under his coat, deliberately took his departure I'll have betther luck," he said to himself, "to join the boys, and as I have my own party among them that'll stand to me, we'll have the best chance. —  The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
• When Mogue Moylan heard that John purcel had gone to the gunsmith's for the blunderbluss, he stealthily sought the barn where he slept, and, putting on a great frieze coat, he went to the haggard; approached the stack, and thrusting his hand up the thatch, secured a case of pistols that had been left with him and Jerry Joyce for their defence, and fixing them under his coat, deliberately took his departure. —  The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

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