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More "Fusil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dit un voyageur, je parvins a degager mes bras des replis dont le boa avait serre mon corps, et au moment ou le monstre ouvrait sa gueule formidable a deux pouces de ma tete, je lui lachai mon coup de fusil entre les deux machoires, et il tomba raide mort.—C'est magnifique, dit quelqu'un. Combien de pieds de long avait ce serpent?—Il avait quatre-vingt douze pouces, repondit l'autre; les serpents n'ont pas ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... A les points de jour. Mon cher Armande, si tu m'aimes Tu penserais a moi, quand tu serais, Dans tes plaisir. Moi—que serai au bout du fusil!' ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Texas Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration
... must, or perish! The taste was all that he had anticipated, and melted iron could hardly have been more painful than that first torture of cold, fusil acid. Gulping it down, he was willing to congratulate himself on his endurance and wisdom, his very heroism in undertaking ...
— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears
... Armstrong gun^, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom^; ten pounder. small arms; musket, musketry, firelock^, fowling piece [Fr.], rifle, fusil^, caliver^, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon^, Brown Bess, matchlock, harquebuss^, arquebus, haguebut^; pistol, postolet^; petronel; small bore; breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... at the bottom of it is a 'passion de collectionner les belles energies.' But there are many kinds of 'belles energies,' and some of them certainly do not fit into the framework of 'le Beylisme.' 'Quand je suis arrete par des voleurs, ou qu'on me tire des coups de fusil, je me sens une grande colere contre le gouvernement et le cure de l'endroit. Quand au voleur, il me plait, s'il est energique, car il m'amuse.' It was the energy of self-assertiveness that pleased ...
— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey
... misinterpreted by the English leader, he, out of mere wantonness, attempted to trip up the heels of the soldier that stood next him, but failed in the execution, and received a blow on his breast with the butt-end of a fusil, that made him stagger several paces backward. Incensed at this audacious application, the whole company charged the detachment sword in hand and, after an obstinate engagement, in which divers wounds were given and received, every soul of ...
— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett
... n'oublie donc pas une petite question qui m'a ete si joliment adressee, Where is my gun? et a present j'en ai trouve un qui serait indigne de la destinee que je prie votre Majeste de me permettre de lui donner, si le regret que la disparition du premier fusil avait cause, ne m'avait pas appris que le second devait etre d'un genre a supporter tous les accidents que l'enfance aime a infliger a ses joujoux. C'est donc tout simplement un tres modeste fusil de munition adapte a sa taille que ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria
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