Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.

He patted his heavy French musket.

With a heavy musket in each hand she stepped softly across the room and out into the starlit night.

It is significant that the Prussian army, the most successful and admired of the age, used a heavy musket which was generally regarded as the worst in Europe.

Harrison saw another to the left in the act of lifting a heavy musket to bear upon CarroU.

He had entered the army as a private, wearing the red jacket of the line Regiments and marching with a heavy musket on his shoulder.

His rifle was on his back, still without ammunition, and this heavy, strange musket would have to suffice.

However, there were only five muskets, all standard Dutch military models, heavy and robust.

Fired from the prone position the recoil of the heavy musket might break his collar-bone.

The roar of his heavy musket was enough to frighten any native who had never before seen a white man, Kane reflected.