Lexicographical Neighbors of Harquebusier
Literary usage of Harquebusier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cromwell's Army: A History of the English Soldier During the Civil Wars, the by Charles Harding Firth (1902)
"The third step was to mount the harquebusier on horseback, ... Finally the
harquebusier became the typical light cavalryman of the armies of Western Europe. ..."
2. Eminent British Military Commanders by George Robert Gleig (1831)
"Moreover, by the late orders rendered in by the council of warre, the
harquebusier (besides a good buffe coate) is to have the back and breast of the ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"A harquebusier. lie lighted the match of his ... A harquebusier. And his sonne
sir William Winter that now is, ..."
4. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"In The Instructions for the Warm of M. du Bellay, trans- luted Into English in
1589, it is said that 'although the harquebusier may ..."
5. State Papers Relating to Musters, Beacons, Shipmoney &c. in Norfolk, from by Walter Rye (1907)
"An harquebusier. Is to be mounted on a good Horse or ... with a good harquebusier,
the barrell wherof to be two foot and an halfe in lengh, stock and all ..."
6. Report of the Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of (1891)
"And although the harquebusier may shoote further, notwithstanding, the archer
and cross-bowman will kill at one hundred or two hundred paces off as well as ..."
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