blunderbusses

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There were numerous bales and boxes placed against the walls, on which also hung a variety of arms: firelocks, blunderbusses, and pistols, cutlasses and sabres, apparently the spoils of various captured vessels.

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  • “You are Monsieur Mazeron Alain Mazeron, yes.” There were more weapons littering the shop, muskets, blunderbusses, and, right at the back, two suits of armour. —  Maigret in Society —Georges Simenon—#84
  • Rusty streaks beside the bone assemblies might once have been blunderbusses or swords Several piles of rust along the cavern wall hinted at cannons which must have been removed to lighten the galleon for careening Reaching out, Doc placed a finger against the hull. —  011 - Brand of the Werewolf
  • Then everyone was running and shouting at once and soldiers were popping up to fire their blunderbusses, then squatting to refill them as trails of smoke and fire corkscrewed overhead. —  AnalogSFF,June2007
  • Dresden Concerti commemorate both the raucous glories of the hunt and the calmer delights of pastoral landscape when blunderbusses were silent and love was in the air still fragrant with the scent of gun powder. —  CounterPunch
  • "Here's your blunderbusses, I guess, mister What! —  The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
 

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