Lexicographical Neighbors of Fuzees
Literary usage of Fuzees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards by Daniel MacKinnon (1833)
"Received 2000 fuzees, &c. for the use of the Grenadier companies of the Coldstream,
from 1st January, ..."
2. London labour and the London poor: Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings by Henry Mayhew (1861)
"I 've made 6d. a day and sometimes more a sellin' fuzees, wid luck, God be praised,
but the bad wither's put me out intirely this time. ..."
3. A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying by John Bebrett (1797)
"Shells, for five and half inch howitzers, 92 empty, 92 filled. 252 fuzees.
Shells, for four and two-fifths inch mortars, 116 empty. ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"And the muskets or fuzees, now in the clerk's hands, being shewn to the deponent,
... that they are the very same fuzees he saw taken out as aforesaid : and ..."
5. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1852)
"... as soon as possible, whether you are to deliver to my orders the fuzees
demanded, or not. y/ "I have the Honour to be, with the greatest regard, " Sir, ..."
6. The Mechanics' Magazine (1853)
"After the fuzees hid properly burnt their time, other shell» wire thrown to the
right and left, but were uninjured. Shells were also fired at the hulk, ..."
7. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1813)
"... he saw taken of the two fuzees was loaded, and the other wit; and that, baring
drawn the shot of the loaded piece, he found it to be loaded with ..."
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