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Definition of Harquebuses
1. harquebus [n] - See also: harquebus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harquebuses
Literary usage of Harquebuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the Reign of Edward VI, 1547 by Great Britain Public Record Office (1861)
"Inform him that they have bargained with John Cooke for 500 quintals of saltpetre,
and 1000 harquebuses, after the Italian sort. ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Now the Tartars, for feare of the harquebuses, gathered themselves about the
Grand Signior his Pavillion, and hovering a little off, and Hassan Bassa who ..."
3. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Now the Tartars, for feare of the harquebuses, gathered themselves about the
Grand Signior his Pavillion, and hovering a little ofF, and Hassan Bassa who ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Now the Tartars, for feare of the harquebuses, gathered themselves about the
Grand Signior his Pavillion, and hovering a little off, and Hassan Bassa who ..."
5. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"They also landed their men with " harquebuses, pikes, long bows, crossbows,
partisans, long swords, and swords and daggers," in pursuit of two elephants, ..."
6. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by James Gairdner, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, Great Britain Public Record Office (1908)
"Spoke, when last at Utrecht, of this Council's request about certain harquebuses
seized in the Netherlands, and Schore asked if they were the ..."
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