musket-balls

A court-martial sat upon him, and he was asked which he liked better, to run the gauntlet six and thirty times through the whole regiment, or to have his brains blown out with a dozen musket-balls?

Candide 2007

Cabrera: and in the hurry and bustle of war — daily on guard and in the batteries for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four, with fourteen severe wounds and seven musket-balls in my body — it may be imagined that I have had little time to think about the publication of my memoirs.

Burlesques 2006

Fortunately we were so near, that all the arrows passed clear over us, but four musket-balls went through the sail just above our heads.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Those on shore walked up to the bend above to look at the boat, as we supposed; but the moment she was abreast of them, they gave us a volley of musket-balls and poisoned arrows, without a word of warning.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

In the late riots, which even yet are hardly quite subsided, and which are still the general topic of conversation, more people have been found dead near empty brandy-casks in the streets, than were killed by the musket-balls of regiments that were called in.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

They ploughed up a gravel-walk like musket-balls, and passed through glass-windows, making round holes, but not cracking them.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

They ploughed up a gravel-walk like musket-balls, and passed through glass-windows, making round holes, but not cracking them.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The soldiers used to say that he was more afraid of being sun-burnt and of the blackness of the powder than of the musket-balls; and it was very true.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

Some of the musket-balls hummed up onto the ridge where they pattered on the wet ground like hail.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

When fired the thin tin cannisters split apart to scatter the musket-balls like giant blasts of duckshot.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990