swan-shot

Then loading with swan-shot, which these Bedouins had never seen, I knocked over

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

With the words, I fired my handful of swan-shot clean into the group, and then charged at them yelling, in boyish imitation of a knight of old, "Happy is he that escapeth me."

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

I now loaded it, for powder-horn and shot-bag hung near it on the wall, putting in a handful of the biggest sort of shot, swan-shot as I should call them.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

I awoke the lieutenant, who, after yawning and rubbing his eyes, for he had taken an extra strong north-wester the evening before to make himself sleep sound, took up his fowling-piece; but he might as well have fired at the best bower anchor — the swan-shot with which it was loaded glanced from the object at an angle of twenty-five degrees.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

"Stand and deliver," quoth I to myself, "or I'll double your weight with swan-shot."

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

I had not even a moment for reflection; my piece was only charged with swan-shot, and I had no other about me; however, though I could have no idea of killing such an animal with that weak kind of ammunition, yet I had some hopes of frightening him by the report, and perhaps of wounding him also.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 Charles Herbert Sylvester

I had not even a moment for reflection; my piece was only charged with swan-shot, and I had no other about me.

The Junior Classics — Volume 5 William Patten 1902

I took deliberate aim at him with my blunderbuss, loaded as usual with swan-shot, and wounded him in several places, but not seriously.

Colonial Children 1902

When he had drank it, I made him take the two fowling-pieces, which we always carried, and load them with large swan-shot, as big as small pistol-bullets.

Robinson Crusoe 1895

The two muskets I loaded with a brace of slugs each, and four or five smaller bullets, about the size of pistol-bullets; and the fowling-piece I loaded with near a handful of swan-shot, of the largest size.

Robinson Crusoe 1895