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Long after, portable firearms had come into use, the greater portion of foot soldiers continued to be armed with pikes, until the introduction of the fixed bayonet enabled the musketeer to do likewise the duty of pikeman. Maurice was among the first to appreciate the advantage of portable firearms, and he accordingly increased the proportion of soldiers armed with the musket in his companies.
When Rutilianus once put a question to him about me, the answer was: Night-haunts and foul debauch are all his joy. It is true his dislike was quite justified. On a certain occasion I was passing through Abonutichus, with a spearman and a pikeman whom my friend the governor of Cappadocia had lent me as an escort on my way to the sea.
This was at an earlier stage of the action, and he had subsequently mounted another horse, exchanged his splendid armour for a plain black harness, over which he wore a shabby scarf. In the confusion of the rout he was hard beset. "Surrender, scoundrel!" cried a Walloon pikeman, seizing his horse by the bridle.
I hope you will not feel the want of it, and at any rate, it has not been my fault that you have had no opportunity of acquiring the art. "The tendency is more and more to fight on foot. The duel has taken the place of the combat in the lists, and the pikeman counts for as much in the winning of a battle as the mounted man.
"Because we will finish up this business." "O you won't let the featherbed come down on us?" cried Jane Linwood. "If you don't be quiet and keep still, I will," said Preston. "Let only your eye wink or your mouth move to smile and you are an unlucky prince! I am a man without mercy." "And I am another," said George. "I say, old fellow, I suppose I'm all right for that French pikeman now, hey?
Ireland was a wilder, larger, more remote Welsh march, and the resemblance was heightened by the fact that many of the Anglo-Norman principalities were in the hands of great English or marcher families, and that the Irish foot-soldier played only a less important part than the Welsh archer and pikeman among the light-armed soldiers of the English crown.
The Wesleyans were at one time all-powerful in our road district, and Nicholas, foreseeing a chance of filling an office of profit under the Board, threw away all his sins, and obtained grace and a billet as toll-collector or pikeman.
"That's me, Snarbi, fine soldier, pikeman, checked out on club and dagger, seven kills and two possibles on my record, you can check it yourself at the guild hall." "I remember it all Snarbi, including the fact that you know your way back to Appsala." "I've been around." "Then the revolution is still on, in fact it is starting right now but I want to keep it small.
A curse on these unseen archers!" quoth Sir Brian, beckoning a pikeman to lead forward the riderless horse. "Ha look yonder, Benedict we are beset in flank, and by dismounted knights from the underwood. See, as I live 'tis the nuns they make for!"
When the command "cast loose and provide" had been obeyed and every man was in his place, the roll was called by the commanders of the different divisions, the sailors responding by giving the names of their stations thus: "George Williams." "First captain and second boarder, sir." "Walter Dowd." "Second loader and first boarder, sir." "James Smith." "Shotman and pikeman, sir."
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