"I tell you, on the credit of a poor gentleman," he said, "that there were five hundred discharges of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin, from the Vanguard; and when I was farthest off in firing my pieces, I was not out of shot of their harquebus, and most time within speech, one of another."
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
Men hurried along the usually lonely road in groups, with weapons in their hands,-the old fowling-piece of seven-foot barrel, with which the Puritans had shot ducks on the river and Walden Pond; the heavy harquebus, which perhaps had levelled one of King Philip's Indians; the old King gun, that blazed away at the French of Louisburg or Quebec,-hunter, husbandman, all were hurrying each other.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
And my Lord Understanding had like to have been slain with an harquebus, but that he that shot wanted to take his aim aright.
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John Bunyan