"Harquebuse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... favoured their apprehension, and that it might be as well at another time to make them face the danger, as to seek to avoid it. For my own part, I confess I cannot forbear starting when the rattle of a harquebuse thunders in my ears on a sudden, and in a place where I am not to expect it, which I have also observed in ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne |
