Bayonets flashed in the rain, musket butts struck viciously, and the high-captain went white, for he could hear the voices clearly, now.
The frustrated British fell upon the seven helpless men with bayonets and musket butts and slaughtered them all.
He was looking for some sign that they were ready to advance, but the men were slouching, musket butts grounded, without even fixed bayonets.
About 70 men engaged the New Englanders in hand-to-hand combat, which was fought with axes and musket butts.
Different ones, and this time they wasn't so careless with their feet and their musket butts.
Arthur slammed the musket butt on the pegged floor, glaring.
Sharpe used his musket butt to hammer his way through the sepoys.
"There," he said, as the musket butt struck stone.
Jack rose up, his musket butt striking the maple as he stood.
The townsmen had fallen on Erz* cour, striking at him with their musket butts.