musket-ball

When the two-hour engagement finally ended, Washington had four musket-ball holes in his greatcoat and had two horses shot from under him.

A Medal of Honor for George Washington John White 2012

He had a bright burnished head-piece, with a plume of feathers, together with a cuirass, thick enough to resist a musket-ball, and a back-piece of lighter materials.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

One of my sons (James) went wild and for a soldier, where he was shot in India, living six weeks in hospital with a musket-ball lodged in his shoulder-blade, which he wrote with his own hand.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

If I had received a musket-ball in the heart, and she had stood there, I almost believe I should have turned to her before I dropped.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

If I had received a musket-ball in the heart, and she had stood there, I almost believe I should have turned to her before I dropped.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

Fakenham, the gentleman who had threatened me, it may be remembered, with the caning, was struck by a musket-ball in the side.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

A musket-ball had entered just below the eye, and making its way downwards, had lodged itself in the back of his neck.

La Vend�e 2004

With these words Mr. Mordacks took from an inner pocket a little pill-box, and thence produced a globe, or rather an oblate spheroid, of bright gold, rather larger than a musket-ball, but fluted or crenelled like a poppy-head, and stamped or embossed with marks like letters.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Now it seemed almost impossible for me to cross that moonlight without being seen by those fellows in the boat, who could pull, of course, four times as fast as I could swim, not to mention the chances of a musket-ball.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

He groaned very feebly, as I raised him up; and there was the wound, a great savage one (whether from pike-thrust or musket-ball), gaping and welling in his right side, from which a piece seemed to be torn away.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004