Jezails

Word JEZAILS
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He had not a doubt there were men with long jezails lurking not far away, to say nothing of those responsible for the blue torchlight. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)

In one of the hill expeditions, the advanced section of the force I accompanied had to penetrate a narrow and gloomy pass which was beset on either side by swarms of Afghans, who slated us severely with their long-range jezails. ❋ Various (N/A)

For a time the enemy was kept at bay without the city, their old-fashioned _jezails_, or matchlocks, failing to produce much effect. ❋ R. E. Cholmeley (N/A)

As the redcoats steadily retired, keeping behind cover as much as possible, the enemy followed them up with yells of exultation, springing from rock to rock, waving their jezails in the air, and howling like a pack of demons. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

There was a few moments 'anxious pause, and, above the hissing rush of the water, the echoing crack, crack, crack of the enemies' jezails reached their ears, but sounding smothered and far away. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

The further hill beyond the gorge was crowded with hostile Afghans from Cabul, and the long-range fire of their jezails across the dividing depression, carried execution into the squares which Shelton had inexplicably formed as if to furnish his foes with a target which they could not miss. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)

It was a mere detachment marching against a nation of fighting men plentifully supplied with artillery, no longer shooting laboriously with jezails, but carrying arms of precision equal or little inferior to those in the hands of our own soldiery. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)

Regardless of a heavy artillery fire they stood their ground, and so galled Pollock's troops with sharp discharges from their jezails that it became necessary to send infantry against them. ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)

Elphinstone's party, way back in 1842, exchanged pleasantries with the colorful natives and their jezails. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lads were as steady as the most exacting officer could desire; and though the two sides of the narrow, winding defile were lined with the enemy, who made good use of their clumsy jezails, of whose long range several of the Fusiliers had had bitter experience, the deadly fire which searched out every sheltering crag was too much for the Dwats, who were retiring as fast as the difficult nature of the ground would allow. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"The Jezailchis are so called from their jezails or long rifles. ❋ Theo. F. Rodenbough (N/A)

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