| 单词 | fowling piece |
| 例句 | He drilled with an old fowling piece his grandsire had given him to shoot ducks on the Concord River. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Every musket had a bayonet, and there was not one old fowling piece among them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jones, a writer of admirable narrative energy, wastes no time in firing, as it were, the other barrel of the fowling piece: namely, the traditional incursion into the house from outside. The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z “During the founding era, Americans typically owned muskets for militia service and fowling pieces to hunt birds and control vermin,” the brief said. Supreme Court Won’t Block Illinois Laws on High-Powered Rifles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Muzzle-loaded fowling pieces were used to hunt ducks and other waterfowl in Tidewater Virginia and for farmland pest control. Colonial Williamsburg opening new attraction: musket range 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Besides, you must remember these are but fowling pieces. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z The fowling piece scattered skithering bird shot with a flare just as the intruders got out of range. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z They laid their fowling pieces down and took off their capes; they had been up at the lake for the evening flight and six birds were in the game bag. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Not without fishing gear were they left, nor without a small supply of biscuits, and just three fowling pieces and ammunition, with some axes and carpenter’s tools. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z I had my own rifle, a fowling piece, two pistols, and sufficient ammunition. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z The firearms I left at the service of my garrison, and consisting of nearly fifty rifles and fowling pieces, were carefully inspected. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The oak gun-rack in our old home contained a motley collection of fowling pieces, mostly with the barrels filed down. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z My uncle Herse raised a corps of sharpshooters of one-and-twenty fowling pieces, and the young peasants sat on horseback with their long swords at their sides. In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life 2011-04-14T02:00:53.733Z He defended himself for a short time with the butt end of the fowling piece, but was at length overpowered and taken. Christmas Stories 2011-02-27T03:00:31.413Z "Still so young and yet sad?" asked the stranger, as he drew nearer concernedly, removing his fowling piece from his shoulder, and leaning upon it. Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:10.707Z They were not anxious to follow while he could sweep the bridge with his fowling piece and so they stood on the shore and howled. Where the Pavement Ends The men were armed with spears, some carrying bows and arrows, the chief alone having an old Spanish long-barrelled fowling piece, damascened with gold. The Ruined Cities of Zululand I am but a small sportsman, yet with a fowling piece have killed above twenty of them at a shot. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts Bertrand, who was resting upon his fowling piece, and whose tears still trickled down his cheeks, and over his weapon, could not avoid laughing aloud, and the younger lads joined him. The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. Bring every man a musket or fowling piece. Eighth Reader In the list for 1672 are found '200 fowling pieces and 400 powder horns and 500 hatchets.' The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) By this time Dave had returned, partly dressed, and catching up another one of the fowling pieces in the bungalow he, too, leaped through the window, followed by Shadow. Dave Porter At Bear Camp or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake Moncrieff, after most careful examination, bought half a dozen good rifles, and a dozen fowling pieces. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure An esquire passed among his neighbours for a great scholar if Hudibras and Baker's Chronicle, Tarleton's Jests, and the Seven Champions of Christendom, lay in his hall window among the fishing rods and fowling pieces. The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books "And we have fowling pieces, with plenty of powder and shot; but none of us are hunters, and I'm afraid we shall not have very good luck in shooting game." Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives But after he had put them in better humor with a barrel of brandy they "surrendered the post, with three cannon, 500 muskets and fowling pieces, and 1000 pounds of bullets." Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Half dark.—A front wood.—The report of a gun is heard; shortly after, Rip enters, with his fowling piece. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Rip van Winkle Men who worked in the fields took fowling pieces with them and, at times, armed guards were stationed to be on the lookout, and warn the workers in case of danger. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century To begin with, the uncle consumed much valuable time in an interminable dissertation upon the merits of a new fowling piece which he contemplates purchasing. Fibble, D.D. Dan was provided with a fowling piece, while Quin was to try his luck as a fisherman. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives And toward night comes a cart from Mondreer, loaded with all the colonel’s trunks, pistol cases, hat boxes, fowling pieces and what not. Her Mother's Secret At about a quarter to eleven o'clock a man, with a red setter dog at his heels and a fowling piece on his arm, came sneaking up, and crept into the sty. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls The boy followed, and then the master took his seat in the stern, with his flintlock fowling piece within reach. Duffels And in his hands—ah, dreadful final detail of this dreadful picture—he held outstretched, extended and presented in my general direction, a double-barrelled fowling piece, enormous in size and glittering with metal ornamentation. Fibble, D.D. "We'll see about that," added the man, as he raised his fowling piece. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives What a splendid chance for a shot, if I only had my fowling piece. Her Mother's Secret There were plenty of cannon, old and new, as well as machine guns, rifles, pistols, and fowling pieces of all kinds. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Among these were four extra rifles, two fine fowling pieces, a large supply of powder and lead, axes and hatchets, and extra clothing and blankets. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand It would appear that no sooner does he behold an advertisement touching upon a new and improved variety of fowling piece than he is actuated by an overmastering desire to become its possessor. Fibble, D.D. "Perhaps I can destroy as much valuable property as you can," said Dan, as he took his fowling piece again. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives Another fowling piece and ammunition, my canvas hunting coat and wading boots, followed. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive One or two companies of mounted men, armed with fowling pieces, had been organized under authority from Governor Moore, and Colonel Waller's battalion of mounted riflemen had recently arrived from Texas. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Bang! bang! rang out Jack's fowling piece, and bang! bang! came the report of Fred's firearm. The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box In a cupboard in the inner room was a single-barreled, muzzle-loading fowling piece made at Liege, in Belgium, many years before. From Place to Place Dan dropped the rifle, and took one of the fowling pieces, ready to complete his work if the occasion should require. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives The leaves parted; and a man of some sixty years of age, armed with an old double-barreled fowling piece, stepped out. The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War But these smooth-bore fowling pieces are of no good, except at close quarters; while the Afghan matchlocks will carry straight, a long way. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes He and Teddy had brought all their belongings, with the exception of the fowling pieces and the fishing rods, aboard in two satchels, and these he packed with the utmost expedition. The Search for the Silver City A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan There were perhaps two dozen other men in the room, unkempt, savage, brutal, armed with all sorts of nondescript weapons from ancient pistols to fowling pieces, clubs and scythes. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo As soon as the two men appeared, he raised the fowling piece to his shoulder and fired both barrels, in quick succession. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War He carried a fowling piece, and evidently was the criminal. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. The Literary World Seventh Reader The gentlemen went below, and shortly returned bringing up rifles and fowling pieces. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire He wondered, for a split second, if it might be one of the fowling pieces he had seen there, and then something whizzed past his head and exploded with a soft plop behind him. Last Enemy He found in one of the closets a fine fowling piece, a hunting rifle, two excellent muskets, several pistols, ammunition for all the fire-arms and a number of edged weapons. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis On the American side were the Dogtown Blues, with four companies of ununiformed militia, armed with rifles, fowling pieces, and rusty muskets, and typifying the continental army. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales The full strength of the garrison was twelve able-bodied men, of whom five carried fowling pieces, one a blunderbuss, another a carbine, another a rifle, and four were armed with pistols. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life The report of a fowling piece, at no great distance, at length startled her; and a well-known whistle, which instantly succeeded, assured her that the sportsman was De Valette. The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World He secured a large game bag from under a rack of fowling pieces, and held it while she sorted the material rapidly, stuffing spools of record tape and notebooks into it. Last Enemy Then he loaded the fowling piece and went back toward the lake, hoping he might find ducks there. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis The appearance of Rip, with his long, grizzled beard, his rusty fowling piece, his uncouth dress, and an army of women and children at his heels, soon attracted the attention of the tavern politicians. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader He, accordingly, inspected the arms of the expedition, and finding them to consist of two fowling pieces, those of Messrs. Perrowne and Bigglethorpe, and two pistols borne by Mr. Terry and himself, was comforted. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life They have only a few fowling pieces, being generally armed with bows and arrows, in which, however, they do not appear as expert as the more northern Indians. History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. Then a couple more of them were coming up, with fowling pieces; I shot one of them before they could fire, and jumped into the descent tube and came down heels over ears. Last Enemy At this moment Joshua Wiggs, the innkeeper, came up, carrying three fowling pieces. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India I sat down upon a mound of dry seaweed and unslung my fowling piece. Famous Modern Ghost Stories Finally, Timotheus got the fowling piece and the Squire looked to the priming of his pistols. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life They had their own rifles and the extra fowling pieces and pistols were made ready, also. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi The wild duck is a shy bird, apt to spread his wings and change his quarters when a noble sportsman is seen approaching his habitation with a fowling piece. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Meanwhile, Mr. Toley and his companion had each taken a fowling piece and gone away with the landlord. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Instead, he will take his fowling piece to some far place in the great still mountains and there, at last, do the right thing by himself. Ma Pettengill So Captain Gordon gave me the fowling piece, together with a canister of gunpowder, and sufficient swan shot, I thought, to kill all the wild fowl in Orkney. The Pilots of Pomona Why, those are fowling pieces," replied Henry, "and they are of the very best English make. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi He bought the old Whitney forge and extended the works from the production of fowling pieces to that of muskets. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885 A fowling piece brought him to the deck, where we examined and pronounced him of the genus Falco, species NISUS, or in plain English, a sparrow hawk. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life And in between exciting adventures with his fowling piece he'd write himself some pieces of poetry in a notebook, all about the cows and the clouds and other natural objects. Ma Pettengill One little fowling piece that I examined was so light and so beautifully made that I returned to it again and again while the captain and my father were talking together. The Pilots of Pomona The Spaniards are too far away to hear," said Henry, "and the next time any wild ducks come near I'm going to try one of these fowling pieces. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi My bedroom furniture consisted of a truss of hay, a lantern, a tinder-box, and a rusty fowling piece. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales He possessed a dog and a fowling piece, and with these he would range whole days alone through the woods, often with no other apparent object, than the simple pleasure of these lonely wanderings. The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. His fowling piece had burst in his hand, and flown away in fragments, leaving only a small portion of the barrel at my feet. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea My fowling piece was now hung up in the barn, and few were my opportunities of taking it down. The Pilots of Pomona He took out a fowling piece, loaded it carefully with the powder and shot that the locker furnished in abundance and waited his time. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi Accordingly, arming myself with a pistol a fowling piece, powder and ball, I ascended the mountain. The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) They left them on the deck, and preserved only their sabres: some few, however, saved their carbines, and, almost all the officers, their fowling pieces and pistols. Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 Undertaken by Order of the French Government, Comprising an Account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, the Sufferings of the Crew, and the Various Occurrences on Board the Raft, in the Desert of Zaara, at St. Louis, and at the Camp of Daccard. to Which Are Subjoined Observations Respecting the Agriculture of the Western Coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco to the Mouth of the Gambia. For use in marking slaves a branding iron was inventoried, but in the way of arms there were merely two muskets, a fowling piece and twenty-four old guns without locks. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Here, lying in front of the two bailies, were my fowling piece and a coil of rope. The Pilots of Pomona The fowling pieces proved useful again, as the five were able to sit in comfort on their boat and shoot geese and ducks for their needs. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi I then, with the butt end of my fowling piece, rammed the head farther into the throat of the crocodile, and destroyed him by suffocation, for he could neither gorge nor eject it. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 He succeeded in gaining his feet, though the current was waist high, and recovered his fowling piece, but irretrievably lost his canoe-compass, a nautical balanced instrument, and everything besides. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers For, once the fowling piece is out, And game is on the tapis, The set upon my hero's snout Would make a cockle happy. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Washington reports in full the case of a boy of eleven, who, in handing a fowling piece across a ditch, was accidentally shot. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine I took myself two fowling pieces, and I gave him two muskets. The Elson Readers, Book 5 Again those carrying shotguns discharged their fowling pieces, and down came three of the largest of the squirrels. Guns and Snowshoes Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters "Take note," said he, when he had won his holiday, and appeared dressed in his roughest clothes with the only other regimental fowling piece in his hand. Indian Tales In the boxes were six thousand rounds of ammunition, a thousand for each gun, besides the ammunition for the rifles and fowling pieces of Mr. Goodenough and Frank. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War On the next evening, the last they were to spend at Mariana, the lieutenant was rowed ashore attired for sporting, with top-boots and a double-barrelled fowling piece. Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established "You have rifles, friends; would it not be prudent to prime them? for this fowling piece of mine is little to be depended on." The Prairie The stranger was habited in the usual dress of a hunter, and carried a fowling piece over his right shoulder. The Young Fur Traders I left them my firearms, viz., five muskets, three fowling pieces, and three swords. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 "A joke's a joke," sagely remarked Tom, picking up his hat and fowling piece. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 Brown and Charley gave chase to them; but Brown's horse stumbled and threw him, and unfortunately broke the stock of the double barrelled fowling piece, and bent the barrels. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 For a man of Temple's kidney to be without a fowling piece was like a king being without a crown. Kennedy Square After a search of six hours, they find twelve fowling pieces and thirteen rusty pistols, which he has already declared. The French Revolution - Volume 2 For instance, he would catch nightingales only with his hands, would shoot pike with a fowling piece, he would spend whole hours by the river trying to catch little fish with a big hook. The Witch and other stories An esquire passed among his neighbours for a great scholar, if Hudibras and Baker's Chronicle, Tarlton's Jests and the Seven Champions of Christendom, lay in his hall window among the fishing rods and fowling pieces. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Since he had no assistance, and since the birds held his spear in justifiable contempt as a fowling piece, he was getting much exercise and few results. The Land of Footprints |
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