His assistant touched his linstock down, and the fuse spluttered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

Dregara reached forward and the linstock touched the firing hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

He transferred the glow to a second linstock which he handed to the gunner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

The Frenchman sprang back and Sharpe skipped aside for he could see the gunner holding the linstock to the touch-hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Trafalgar]

It was attached to a linstock (fig. 18), a forked stick long enough to keep the cannoneer out of the way of the recoil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference

Another man struck fire onto a linstock with his pistol-grip steel and flint, and Sharpe stepped away from the terror of flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Enemy]

Instead the guns had flintlocks, though, if the flintlock failed, a linstock was suspended in a nearby tub half-filled with water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Trafalgar]

The watchful artilleryman stood at his cannon's breech, with the lighted linstock in his hand, which he kept alive by constant motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

"This time, Sergeant, the fellow with the linstock.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

"Away with you!" cried the colonel, taking the linstock from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Lies] Reference

Fort where, under the folds of the British standard, stood Trevor, linstock in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference

The ship no sooner crossed the schooner's bows than a Malay ran forward with a linstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Sea Stories] Reference

A tall artillerist stood, with linstock and fuse, near the breech, waiting for the order to fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

I will each take a linstock, and be gunners for once.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne of Geierstein] Reference

"Mind you, Burke, don't come to far for'ard with your linstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

"'Away with you!' cried the Colonel, taking the linstock from him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference

Enter the Boy with a linstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

A linstock glowed red in a forward battery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Prey]

Until occasion, like the linstock, lights it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

“to which, I fear, it is my fate to bring the kindled linstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

Hand me the linstock!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slain By The Doones] Reference

Enter the Boy with a linstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act I. Scene IV. First Part of King Henry the Sixth] Reference

Oh! to see the linstock lighting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems: New and Old] Reference

The gunner held his linstock yare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marmion] Reference

This linstock < 48 > gives you fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Noble Spanish Soldier] Reference

Like linstock, to the horse's touch-hole; 830.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

Stand to thy linstock, gunner; let thy cannon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

107 linstock, ii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference