Word: musketeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metabel felt lonely; and, save for her dog, Musket, she was all alone as she stepped through the woods that lay along Hemlock mountain. Finally she came to a little low cottage where she went in and stayed. In the cottage lived Uncle Henry, a severe and matter-of-fact person, with his nephew Joseph. There was also Isaiah, an old grey horse and a wasp who lived in the attic and was the largest apple-owning wasp in the county. Down the valley, in Wayne, there lived Prissy Deakan who had, the summer before, put up no less than...
...Illustrations, linoleum cuts by Leon Underwood, define and accentuate the grand flurry of action that the prose describes. Well imagined, brilliantly effected, they make it impossible to think of John Paul Jones without suddenly seeing him, fighting with a sailor at the Island of Tobago, firing a derisive musket in reply to a broadside, standing, like a lord, at the door of a ballroom where several ladies dance and one is bowing...
...Your musket and your uniform are given to you not to spoil in idleness, but to keep ready...
...went to gaze at their murdered idol remembered creditable things of Battling Siki. They remembered how during the War he was mustered into the French Army-an ebony-muscled bully-boy of 18, with a jungle smile and an arm like an ironwood tree. He was given a musket with a long knife on the end of it and told to do thus and so to all who wore a certain uniform. Siki grasped his instructions so capably that, although wounded with shrapnel and bay- onets, he won the Croix de Guerre, two palms, Medaille Militaire, seven citations for conspicuous...
...this man had volunteered to ride through the lines and carry the bad news to Moab. Immediately the street began to fill with prairie-schooners, and stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon-drivers practiced frantically with their twenty-foot whips to the detriment of the shop windows and passing pedestrians. The town took on a sombre aspect. No one knew what the future held for this quiet...