Musket

(noun.) a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen.

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• As it was, she merely stipulated, If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I had scarcely left when a musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A musket is a more expensive machine than a javelin or a bow and arrows; a cannon or a mortar, than a balista or a catapulta. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The only proviso that Justinian made was that the women, on their arrival, should keep out of musket-shot and not risk their lives. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• It seems that the musket had been run over by a handcar, which slightly bent the long barrel, but not sufficiently for an amateur like Fox to notice. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I require little sleep, and it pleases me on a fine night to wander for an hour or two with my musket about the hollow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I should not mind taking my turn to watch the mill one of these summer nights, armed with your musket, Joe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As the arquebus succeeded the bow and arrow, so the musket, a smooth and single-barrel muzzle-loader with a flint-lock and a wooden ramrod, succeeded the arquebus. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The ammunition carried with them was two hundred rounds for musket and gun. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• As the balls are made to slip into the barrels easily, they can be loaded as readily as the common musket: and they will carry three times the distance, with much more certainty. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Spain had 10,000 muskets to modernize by the same system, and the breech-block attachments were made at Ilion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The night was so dark that the men could not distinguish one from another except by the light of the flashes of their muskets. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Hears his number called, hears himself challenged, hears the rattle of the muskets, hears the orders 'Make ready! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He imitated the action of a man's being impelled forward by the butt-ends of muskets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The soldiers had their muskets, but no ammunition, while there were tons of it close at hand. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This was accomplished for the first time in America at the Remington plant, in making Harper’s Ferry muskets. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The infantry with their muzzle-loading muskets could not keep up a steady enough fire to wither determined cavalry before it charged home. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Deep ditch, single drawbridge, massive stone walls, eight great towers, cannon, muskets, fire and smoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Vot for should any man vont fore to see great many muskets, all put straight togeter fore to do noting? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Muskets with straight grooves are said to have been used in the fifteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The soldiers thought I wanted to leave the city, and they sprang up and barred the way with their muskets. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Muskets were thrust into the carriage: Your passports? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The infantry under General Taylor was armed with flint-lock muskets, and paper cartridges charged with powder, buck-shot and ball. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• His men resumed their muskets and fell in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The wooden walls of the navies disappeared as a defence after the conflict between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and muzzle-loading muskets became things of the past. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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