jezails

He had not a doubt there were men with long jezails lurking not far away, to say nothing of those responsible for the blue torchlight.

In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

For a time the enemy was kept at bay without the city, their old-fashioned _jezails_, or matchlocks, failing to produce much effect.

John Nicholson The Lion of the Punjaub R. E. Cholmeley

In one of the hill expeditions, the advanced section of the force I accompanied had to penetrate a narrow and gloomy pass which was beset on either side by swarms of Afghans, who slated us severely with their long-range jezails.

The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

He had not a doubt there were men with long jezails lurking not far away, to say nothing of those responsible for the blue torchlight.

King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909

As the redcoats steadily retired, keeping behind cover as much as possible, the enemy followed them up with yells of exultation, springing from rock to rock, waving their jezails in the air, and howling like a pack of demons.

The Mystery of Cloomber Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

There was a few moments 'anxious pause, and, above the hissing rush of the water, the echoing crack, crack, crack of the enemies' jezails reached their ears, but sounding smothered and far away.

Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills George Manville Fenn 1870

It was a mere detachment marching against a nation of fighting men plentifully supplied with artillery, no longer shooting laboriously with jezails, but carrying arms of precision equal or little inferior to those in the hands of our own soldiery.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

Regardless of a heavy artillery fire they stood their ground, and so galled Pollock's troops with sharp discharges from their jezails that it became necessary to send infantry against them.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

The further hill beyond the gorge was crowded with hostile Afghans from Cabul, and the long-range fire of their jezails across the dividing depression, carried execution into the squares which Shelton had inexplicably formed as if to furnish his foes with a target which they could not miss.

The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 Archibald Forbes 1869

Elphinstone's party, way back in 1842, exchanged pleasantries with the colorful natives and their jezails.

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