Sentence examples for two muskets from inspiring English sources

"For camp stuff, I have lots and lots more — I have tents, canteens, I have two muskets, a boarding pistol".

— In an unmarked office building in this ranching town, among thousands of Revolution-era documents and two muskets with bayonets, David Barton might seem like a quirky history buff.

I felt dehumanized when I learned that one male slave could be purchased for 6 ounces of gold, the equivalent of two muskets, one copper bar or four pieces of linen cloth, only to be transported as cargo in a hold barely 3 feet tall.

Things go smoothly enough in Charles Town there is an unforgettable shot of McBride shooting two muskets into the camera while wearing khaki shorts, à la The Great Train Robbery but it all goes to shit once everybody gets to the hotel, when Gamby catches the kids engaged in the time-honored field-trip tradition of surreptitiously drinking stolen booze and making out.

He was in the act of reloading his pistols ... when he received two musket-balls in the breast.

He received two musket wounds in his chest and was killed shortly afterwards by an arrow to the head.

Cumby's charge cleared the French from the deck of Bellerophon, and he found Cooke dead on the quarterdeck, two musket balls lodged in his chest.

During the wars with Napoleon from 1804 to 1815, more than 1.6 million of these muskets were assembled in Birmingham, and nearly 2.7 million muskets of all types were "fitted up" in London and at the Lewisham Royal Armoury Mills.

The few thousand muskets that the governor of Massachusetts sent their way were a nice symbol of Union-state solidarity but not enough to hold their own against the bushwhackers authorized by Letcher's government, its militia companies that had captured the Harper's Ferry arsenal, and the Confederate armies rolling into Virginia.

At random Whitney took a part from one musket and attached it to another until he had reassembled ten muskets from the scattered parts.

The sheriff and two aldermen searched the church and removed twelve muskets.