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  • B. backstrop (de panneau de chalut) patte (de las puertas) pate de gallo bag, bunt poche, sac copo del arte bagnet filet trappe red de copo balt appt cebo battings (2) petit dos

    Chapter 5 1983

  • "Ah, by God!" he growled fiercely, "by God, Mr. Vereker, sir -- there's them as I'd like t 'have wrigglin' their beastly lives out on the end o 'my old bagnet --"

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Than puttin 'bullets thru their lights, or with a bagnet pokin' on 'em;

    Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

  • 'Well -- I can bagnet a few, anyhow,' said the miller.

    The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884

  • There was I, straight as a young poplar, wi 'my firelock, and my bagnet, and my spatterdashes, and my stock sawing my jaws off, and my accoutrements sheening like the seven stars!

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • Do you see the stab on that dog? well, it's done with one of the bagnet pistols them kidnappers carries -- hoss pistols, with a spring dagger on the muzzle; and, when they come to close quarters, they stab with 'em.

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • The Century Dictionary gives bagnet, and Halliwell and Wright both give baginet with the

    The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871

  • The Century Dictionary gives _bagnet_, and Halliwell and Wright both give _baginet_ with the _g_ soft apparently, though neither the one nor the other is very explicit in distinguishing transcriptions from old authors from phonetic spellings of dialect forms.

    The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Edward Eggleston 1869

  • An 'aint contented with a hide without a bagnet hole in 't;

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Than puttin 'bullets thru their lights, or with a bagnet pokin' on 'em;

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

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