The walls weredecorated with several hunting-whips, two or three bridles, a saddle,and an old rusty blunderbuss, with an inscription below it, intimatingthat it was 'Loaded'--as it had been, on the same authority, for halfa century at least.
He was dressed as a mail guard, with a wig on his head andmost enormous cuffs to his coat, and had a lantern in one hand, and ahuge blunderbuss in the other, which he was going to stow away in hislittle arm-chest.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'My uncle looked at the guard for a few seconds, in some doubt whetherit wouldn't be better to wrench his blunderbuss from him, fire it in theface of the man with the big sword, knock the rest of the company overthe head with the stock, snatch up the young lady, and go off in thesmoke.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'What an impudent blunderer this fellow is,' said Pott, turning frompink to crimson.