fowling-pieces

In this dilemma, the Scots people assembled in numbers by signal of rocket lights, and, rudely armed with fowling-pieces, fish-spears, and such rustic weapons, marched to the banks of the river for the purpose of pulling down the dam-dyke objected to.

Redgauntlet 2008

Hearing the sound of the guns, the common people came out along the road with fowling-pieces and pitchforks, in hopes to catch the truant.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Moreover, the sailor thought of simply asking the engineer to manufacture some powder and one or two fowling-pieces; he supposed there would be no difficulty in that.

The Mysterious Island 2005

For weapons they selected the two flint-lock guns, which were likely to be more useful to them than the percussion fowling-pieces, the first only requiring flints which could be easily replaced, and the latter needing fulminating caps, a frequent use of which would soon exhaust their limited stock.

The Mysterious Island 2005

For weapons they selected the two flint-lock guns, which were likely to be more useful to them than the percussion fowling-pieces, the first only requiring flints which could be easily replaced, and the latter needing fulminating caps, a frequent use of which would soon exhaust their limited stock.

The Mysterious Island 2005

This led the sailor to repeat to the engineer, — “You see, captain, so long as we have not one or two fowling-pieces, we shall never get anything!”

The Mysterious Island 2005

This led the sailor to repeat to the engineer, — “You see, captain, so long as we have not one or two fowling-pieces, we shall never get anything!”

The Mysterious Island 2005

Moreover, the sailor thought of simply asking the engineer to manufacture some powder and one or two fowling-pieces; he supposed there would be no difficulty in that.

The Mysterious Island 2005

This had been abstracted, and the locks had been taken off his fowling-pieces.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

They took also three rifles and three fowling-pieces, and a large quantity of balls, shot, and powder.

From the Earth to the Moon 2003