Meaning of musquetry | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“That Yeſterday they made there a great Feaſt, and the Burghers divided into 4 Companies of Train’d Bands in their beſt Acoutrements, made divers Diſcharges of the Muſquetry upon the great Market-place, where the Burgomaſter Harangu’d and Thank’d them in the Name⟳ of the Council of State for the Bravery which they had ſhewn for the Service of King Charles III.”

“The French were already close⟳ to the ruined walls which surround⟳ it, where they received a volley of musquetry and stones from the Arabs, and then mounted to the assault by two old breaches!”

“The musquetry was formed in two columns of single files, the regulars in front, and marched by tiles by the right of columns.”

““Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag⟳ the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]””

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