powder-horn

A small brass-mounted powder-horn completed the equipment.

la charge de la compagnie Franche de la Marine du musée Stewart au fort de l'île Ste-Hélène de Brantigny........................ 2008

He wore a huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out.

Les Miserables 2008

A small brass-mounted powder-horn completed the equipment.

Archive 2008-06-22 de Brantigny........................ 2008

It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has evidently served the devil.

Les Miserables 2008

Here is the cottage interior, the usual first flat, with the cloak upon the nail, the rosaries of onions, the gun and powder-horn and corner-cupboard; here is the inn (this drama must be nautical, I foresee Captain Luff and Bold Bob Bowsprit) with the red curtain, pipes, spittoons, and eight-day clock; and there again is that impressive dungeon with the chains, which was so dull to colour.

Memories and Portraits 2005

This phantom (which, by the bye, happened to be no other than the cook) was a tall, long-legged, meagre, swarthy fellow, that stooped very much; his cheek-bones were remarkably raised, his nose bent into the shape and size of a powder-horn, and the sockets of his eyes as raw round the edges as if the skin had been pared off.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

We presented a few articles, which pleased him highly: a small shawl, a razor, three bunches of beads, some buttons, and a powder-horn.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Lieut. Herne went to search for his powder-horn, and that failing, to find some spears usually tied to the tent-pole.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

They dashed against the roof with a dull sound, fluttered past my ears, sending a cold shiver through me, and settled on my white powder-horn on the wall.

Pan 2003

Perhaps I had nothing to give her but my powder-horn, I thought.

Pan 2003