clouter
Usage examples of "clouter".
Hopper's still my bosun, Clouter thrives with a few fingers missing and young Collier has his lieutenant's exams next month.
Hopper had another seven-barreled gun, two pistols and a cutlass, while Clouter had a boarding axe and two pistols.
She looked alarmed at the sight of Hopper and Clouter, for both were huge men, but they snatched off their straw hats and tugged their forelocks.
He thought he ought to explain exactly who Hopper and Clouter were, but when he began she just shook her head.
He took the bomb from Clouter, stepped through the gate and ran a few paces into the smoke until he could just see where the steps went down to the basement entrance.
Pistol shots sounded behind him and he snatched a glance to see that Clouter was firing up into the yard.
Sharpe pulled out a pistol and fired again, then Hopper and Clouter were behind him and each of them fired into the door before running past Sharpe.
He wanted to be first into the room, not out of heroism, but because he had promised Captain Chase to look after the two men, but Clouter, the axe in his hand, had already shoulder-charged the door and tumbled through.
Hopper fired a pistol down the stairwell and Clouter went to help him.
Hopper had reloaded one of the seven-barreled guns and now shouldered Clouter aside, but it seemed no one was threatening for he held his fire.
Astrid helped her, while Sharpe took Hopper and Clouter out to the courtyard where they sat under the flagpole.
He told Hopper and Clouter he was watching for Lavisser, but he did not really expect to see the renegade.
Thinking about the army and about Wapping, and while he brooded, Hopper and Clouter took turns standing guard near Ole Skovgaard's bed, which had been placed under the inside stairs because the orphanage was so crowded with folk made homeless by the bombardment.
He ran into the building and found Clouter beside Ole Skovgaard's bed.
The last of the children had been carried to the graveyard and Clouter was alone in the courtyard.