Sentences with phrase «of flintlocks»

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Nor, for that matter, is he adept at the political stunt: When McConnell stood onstage at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting in March waving a flintlock musket over his head as a show of his support for gun rights, the senator was roundly mocked.

Flintlock 2012, slated to be held in Mali, was postponed because of the deteriorating situation.

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

Almost everywhere that divers have elected to dig in the blue hole they have discovered a disorderly assortment of ribs, beams, hull planks, cannons, spikes, bones, flintlock guns and pistols, rapiers and sabers, tools and tableware, tackle blocks and deadeyes, chainplates and trunnion plates, rotten rope and tattered swatches of sail.

In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.

One of these new additions is Tetra, who sets herself apart by wielding a flintlock pistol and cutlass at the same time, fitting for her pirate persona.

With Geoffrey Rush returning as Barbossa (now a privateer), plus Kevin McNally still loyal as Jack's right hand man Gibbs and the highest paid screenwriters in Hollywood, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, on scripting duties with a brand new story, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 promises, if nothing else, a high time watching cutlasses clash and flintlocks flash.

I was a little skeptical about this new «Flintlock Fantasy» trend, but if this is typical of the subgenre, I'm sold.

Among the countless dazzling artifacts displayed at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a trove of lethal weapons, ranging from ornately carved aboriginal war clubs to medieval crossbows decorated with engraved ivory panels to French flintlock rifles adorned with silver filigree.

Set in the world of the Half - Continent — a land of tri-corner hats and flintlock pistols — the Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy is a world of predatory monsters, chemical potions and surgically altered people.

Bernard Cornwell's novels dealing with the adventures of Richard Sharpe in the Napoleonic Wars are an invaluable inspiration to Flintlock Fantasy writers.

It can be safely assumed that the game will take place during the American Revolution, as well, due to the nature of the weapons the assassin carries (such as a flintlock pistol), the Betsy Ross - style American flag, and of course, anything that suggests that the protagonist is a Native American.

Like an heirloom flintlock pistol that's been lost in the Bayou, Liberation doesn't produce much of a spark, but one hopes that Ubisoft can find a way to get it firing once more.