How To Use Gunpowder In A Sentence
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The New York and Liverpool firm that your father belongs to sent on board an honest and peaceable cargo, but there was a good deal of room left in the hold, and the captain filled it up with cannon-balls, musket-bullets, and gunpowder from the English agents of no less a man than General Santa
Ahead of the Army
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In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise.
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To them is due the discovery of antimony, sulphuric ether and phosphorus, the cupellation of gold and silver, the determining of the properties of saltpetre and its use in gunpowder, and the discovery of the distillation of essential oils.
The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities
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The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
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At regular intervals along these walls occur little towers, for their defence, reminding one of beads strung on a rosary; the great watch-tower at the gate, with its projecting machicolation, forming the pendent cross, -- the whole serving to guard the town within from the dangers of war, even as the rosary protects the city of Mansoul from the attacks of Sin and Death -- though, sooth to say, since the invention of gunpowder and the Reformation, both the one and the other appear to have lost much of their former efficacy.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
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Intense heat from gunpowder's pyrotechnic flame energizes electrons in the metal atoms and metal-containing molecules.
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When the quinine ran out they gave Sharpe quassia bark instead, but still the fever raged, and even the Navy's remedy, suggested by Lord Spears, which consisted of gunpowder mixed with brandy, did not work.
Sharpe's Sword
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In the planked room, or magazine, were placed one hundred barrels of gunpowder in bulk; and on the deck, immediately above the powder, were laid fifty thirteen-and-a-half-inch shells, and one hundred nine-inch shells, with a large quantity of shot, pieces of kentledge, and fragments of iron of different sorts.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
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This incident was particularly severe because of the huge amount of gunpowder in the firework.
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I love the smell of spent gunpowder, a new box of bluerock, WD-40, Fast Orange or any of those shop soaps like that, and leaded fuel, nitromethane, burnt differential oil and all those nice racing smells.
Sunsets and Open Threads « Whatever
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In NYC, I highly recommend the gunpowder masala dosa at Chennai Garden (they call it gunpowder for a reason, trust me).
Archive 2008-04-01
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And I flung myself on top of him, and there was this awful noise, the smell of cordite, death, powder, gunpowder, everything and that passed over.
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The amount of the consumptions of the mines that are worked is also unknown; but it is known that the gunpowder costs the operators $9 an aroba [of 25 pounds], of lead, $12
Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
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That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers.
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“She lives a life denied my ancestors,” Fiona said, the anger as quick to flame as overdry gunpowder.
Aching for Always
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It proved to be to his customary slap what nuclear fission is to gunpowder.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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We can't use gunpowder or cammabark because the Whites would blow us apart with our own powder.
The Magic Engineer
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His invention relates to the treatment of nitro - starch and nitro-dextrine, for the purpose of producing an explosive powder, to be used in place of gunpowder.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise
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The khan has been a strong edifice, but the stones of the massive gateway, especially the great keystone, are split across, as if from the effects of gunpowder.
Byeways in Palestine
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Forth, where boys and girls recalled the doings of Robert Louis and his friends with bull's-eye lanterns and gunpowder, in that cheerful form known to Louis Stevenson as a 'peeoy,' and considered it a point of honour to do likewise, no matter how indignant such mischief made the authorities.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Against extraordinary odds Davie and Alan fight their way out of their ship's cabin - and in a moment of desperation Alan recklessly scuppers the ship when he ignites a barrel of gunpowder in the hold.
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The gunpowder without the mephitis being fired, the combustion was soon communicated to the other extremity of the train, and to the phosphorus, which took fire with decrepitation, burnt rapidly, with a bright flame, slightly coloured with veilow and green, and left on the wood a black mark, as of charcoal.
A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
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That way the hard barrel compresses the relatively soft metal of the bullet as the exploding gunpowder hurls the projectile down the barrel.
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Not to mention the Illiad (an intermural squabble among the Olympian Gods), the Hundred Years War (is God a Catholic or a Protestant?), the Crusades, and every clash of civilizations from the Bronze Age to the Gunpowder Age.
Rep. John Lewis Compares McCain To George Wallace
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Regiments of fusiliers were assigned to guard the artillery trains, in which large quantities of gunpowder were stored and transported for the army's ordnance.
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This means anything where gunpowder based weaponry is mixed with fantasy elements such as Orcs or magic. (their description).
Orcs in the Webbe Advent Calendar « Third Point of Singularity
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If the knee be bruised as well as cut, a poultice should be applied, and changed two or three times a day; but on no account use gunpowder, which is a favourite remedy for broken knees with ignorant people, as it only irritates the wound.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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It was also used in the past to produce charcoal for gunpowder.
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All fire — simply explosive as gunpowder — and stately as a boyar!
A Sportsman's Sketches
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Undercover officers rushed in only to find talcum powder and not gunpowder on the agenda.
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They've got gunpowder enough to keep the whole battery firing for ever.
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The head linguister, who, like “Persian interpreters” to commanders in chief of India during my clay, could not speak a word of any language but his own, after clapping hands, congratulated us in the name of the great king Nekulu; he lives, it appears, in a Banza at some distance to the north or north-east, out of sight of the river, and he cannot be visited without great outlay of gunpowder and strong waters.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Gunpowder reigned supreme until the invention of more powerful substances, notably nitroglycerin and its offshoot, dynamite.
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This incident was particularly severe because of the huge amount of gunpowder in the firework.
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Japan's reactionary Tokugawa shogunate employed gunpowder to obliterate troublemakers and then banned all guns—even its own—for the sake of preserving the samurais' sword-wielding hegemony.
Where They Got Their Grit
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Maybe Boone noticed crystals of potassium nitrate there, because the deep, loose floor was soon being mined for niter to make gunpowder.
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Vast quantities of clothing, gunpowder, pikes, halberds, swords, and muskets poured out of the workshops of the metropolis.
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Humph!" said Mr. Howard, – "gunpowder is pretty quiet stuff so long as it keeps cool.
The Wide, Wide World
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It is dangerous for children to play with gunpowder.
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Nitre, or saltpetre, is potassium nitrate, the main ingredient of gunpowder.
Times, Sunday Times
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The jingles on the King of France, against the Scots in the time of James I., against the Tory, or Irish rapparee, and about the Gunpowder Plot, are of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
The Nursery Rhyme Book
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There’s nothing ferrous about gunpowder — the nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin in modern smokeless powder have no iron, and neither does old-fashioned blackpowder, which is charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter — so I assume Indy is setting up some kind of ruse.
Indiana Jones and the Magnetic Skull « Isegoria
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The smell of gunpowder filled his nostrils.
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Early grenades were like cartoon bombs: an iron sphere packed with gunpowder and a fuse sticking out of the top.
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As her daughter tripped on a mop and dropped a box of glass dishes, the burnt end of that fuse collided with the gunpowder.
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In the early days of quarrying, one-foot holes were made and whole kegs of gunpowder used in blasting.
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Shells, hollow ammunition filled with gunpowder and equipped with a fuse, were the most common type of explosive artillery round used during the Civil War.
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That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers.
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Mining, with gunpowder now replacing the pig-fat of yesteryear, might accelerate the process, but a wily defender would have prepared countermine galleries of his own, and a wet ditch presented particular problems.
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One faces the gunpowder while the other powders the face.
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Yet for all the muskets, bombards, and cannon, Kelly appears more interested in the impact of gunpowder as a technological force driving deeper societal changes.
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The six men in the black van were now spilling out, all with guns in their hands, one just fired and still smoking with gunpowder.
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Prior to its first military uses, gunpowder was termed black powder.
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It might be safe so say that the presence of water under very high temperature may be as aidful to form an explosive among such salts as have been named, as sulphur is for the rapid combustion of gunpowder.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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He's had every man in Talabar who even thinks he knows how to make gunpowder taken into custody.
TREASON KEEP
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At Singapore, there are hundreds of Chinese shopkeepers, who sell all kinds of miscellaneous articles, such as penknives, cotton thread, writing-paper, gunpowder, and corkscrews, often at a price which would be considered cheap even in
Chatterbox, 1905.
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The best feature of the novel for me was the period detail, covering topics as diverse as bear-baiting and the technical methods for making, mixing and storing gunpowder.
Archive 2010-02-01
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Moroccan mint tea is a brisk blend of gunpowder green tea and peppermint leaves, while Earl Grey, a famous British tea, is made up of black tea leaves flavored with bergamot orange oil.
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This danger proceeds from fire-damp, as one unlucky stroke of the pick may bring forth a stream of carbureted hydrogen gas, inexplosive of itself, but if mixed with eight times its bulk of air, more dangerous than gunpowder, and which, if by chance it comes in contact with the flame of a candle, is sure to explode, and certain death is the result -- not always from the explosion itself, but from the after-damp or carbonic acid gas which follows it.
Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
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I was informed recently that it was a Johnson who foiled the gunpowder plot.
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The mail steamer _la France_ caught fire, part of the cargo being gunpowder; the ship is about to be blown up; a foreign witness writes thus: "Tous jusqu'aux petits marmitons rivalisaient d'élan, de bravoure et de cette gaieté gauloise dans le péril qui forme un des beaux traits du caractère national.
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
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Spicy “Gunpowder” Seasoning (Molaha Pudi) (Urad Dal – split black gram - Vigna mungo and Chana Dal – split skinless Desi chickpeas - Cicer arietinum)
Archive 2009-04-01
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The best saltpetre, an essential dement of gunpowder, came from India and he had never considered that there might be a shortage in France.
Sharpe's Havoc
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I could smell the acrid scent of gunpowder.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nitre, or niter, is also used to manufacture gunpowder.
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It was ordinary Catholics, however, who suffered the longest as a result of the Gunpowder Plot.
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It is the spirit which incarcerates unfortunate prisoners of honorable warfare in pestilential holds, stifles them with thirst, starvation, diseased meats, if not slow poisons, and plants tons of gunpowder under them that, in case of inability to retain them, they might be blown to atoms at the mere touch of a match.
The Assassinated President
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Maybe Boone noticed crystals of potassium nitrate there, because the deep, loose floor was soon being mined for niter to make gunpowder.
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Charcoal for gunpowder must be made by what is termed the distilling process; that is, the wood must be heated in iron retorts to the proper degree, to have it of the best quality and free from sand or grit.
History of the Confederate Powder Works
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A formal garden was installed on the roof of the old gunpowder magazine.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love the smell of burnt feathers and gunpowder and cordite!
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His eyes were bloodshot, and his face, all begrimed with smoke and gunpowder, wore an expression haggard, gaunt, and very weary.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Nitre, or niter, is also used to manufacture gunpowder.
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Moroccan mint tea is a brisk blend of gunpowder green tea and peppermint leaves, while Earl Grey, a famous British tea, is made up of black tea leaves flavored with bergamot orange oil.
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The explosive power of this substance is inferior to that of gun-cotton or of dynamite, but far greater than that of ordinary gunpowder; one grain of picric powder producing an effect equal to that of thirteen grains of common powder.
The Survivors of the Chancellor
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Unlike the solid cannon ball a mortar shell is hollow and filled with gunpowder.
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Nitrogen is an important component of common chemical explosives like TNT, nitroglycerin, gunpowder, guncotton, nitrocellulose, picric acid, and ammonium nitrate.
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Charcoal was also essential for the manufacture of gunpowder.
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A guardian, when you had signed your name again, unlocked three unpickable, incombustible, and gunpowder-proof locks in a massive steel door, and you were admitted, assuming always that the hour was between nine and six.
Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes
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European germs killed far more of the inhabitants than European gunpowder and steel.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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As far as cauterisation of the tissues is concerned, this question has been practically settled in the negative, since actual determinations of the heat immediately after the moment of impact have been made, and again it has been shown that butter is not melted, and that neither gunpowder nor dynamite is exploded, by firing bullets through small quantities of those materials.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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The gunners were firing common shell, a hollow iron sphere containing gunpowder, which flung out fragments of iron.
A Model Victory
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There was a foul stench in the air like that of gunpowder.
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I could smell the acrid scent of gunpowder.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four hundred years ago today, in 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was averted, miscreants brought to the fearsome justice of the age and a massive disruption to English history avoided.
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With a barrel of gunpowder between your legs its difficult to recall the details of your past.
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He has a musket, bullets, gunpowder, carpentry tools, clothes, bedding and a Bible.
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In the popular mind the Gunpowder Plot, with its dramatic aim of blowing up the Houses of Parliament, has become the archetypal anti-state conspiracy and its main executor the personification of treachery.
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Then he grabbed his ration pack, gunpowder horn, and bullet bag.
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By this time the whole place was full of gunpowder smoke, and there was the sound of blows and oaths and outcrying and the clashing of knives.
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
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Just as castle walls gave way to gunpowder and the cannon, so too will present technology give way to new ideas and new tools of war.
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Nitrogen is an important component of common chemical explosives like TNT, nitroglycerin, gunpowder, guncotton, nitrocellulose, picric acid, and ammonium nitrate.
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In 1687, an English scientist, Isasc Newton, explained the science of how the rocket moved forward when the gunpowder exploded. His explanation is known as the law of action and reaction.
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Could you not from this room explode a box of gunpowder placed across the street in that house yonder?
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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Unlike the solid cannon ball a mortar shell is hollow and filled with gunpowder.
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When gunpowder warfare became general by the seventeenth century, it introduced to the battlefield men carrying explosives on their belts, holding dangerous firearms and, in the early matchlock days, smoldering cords.
George Washington’s First War
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In addition to coconut shells, one can use cowries or other ocean shells, and even gunpowder.
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The cellar was searched and, hidden amid the large quantity of firewood stored there, 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, along with fuses.
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The discovery that directly supplanted gunpowder for use in firearms was guncotton, a forerunner of smokeless powder.
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I find since that Dr Wilson states these rocks to be highly saliferous, and says the Arabs scrape them with knives to obtain saltpetre for making their rude gunpowder.
Byeways in Palestine
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As I write I work opt the idea -- gasoline, balls of oakum, caps and gunpowder from a few cartridges, Roman candles, and flares blue, red, and green, shallow metal receptacles to carry the explosive and inflammable stuff; and a trigger-like arrangement by which, pulling on a string, the caps are exploded in the gunpowder and fire set to the gasoline-soaked oakum and to the flares and candles.
CHAPTER XLIV
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Fawkes's task was to light the slow fuse to ignite the barrels of gunpowder.
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Gunpowder can fail to ignite or explode prematurely.
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Exploding shells - initially hollow metal spheres filled with gunpowder - were first introduced in the second half of the 16th century.
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Mohammed Said, for whom de Lesseps was to name Port Said, had since become a walleyed mountain of a man, a great eater and drinker and jovial teller of “French stories,” a ruler who liked to have his pashas wade through gunpowder carrying lighted candles to test their nerve.
The Path Between the Seas
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Steel pots and knives, tomahawks, glass beads, manufactured cloth, guns, and gunpowder gradually replaced traditional products of native manufacture.
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The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
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I could smell the acrid scent of gunpowder.
Times, Sunday Times
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The group said it will begin tests in May using land mines without gunpowder.
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Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease.
Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War
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After his arrest he said that he used the gunpowder to interest his nieces and nephews in science.
Times, Sunday Times
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The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder.
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Soon Derwentwater and Windermere offered the same thrills although travellers were warned to check that all the gunpowder was rammed in, to be sure they got the proper deal.
A passion for painting in the Lake District
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Whoomp, it went, and burned with a brief, merry flame, just the way gunpowder is supposed to.
How Long Does Gunpowder Live?
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Sulphur, along with charcoal and birdlime, was a principal component of 16th century gunpowder, and a method of producing it from copperas stones was discovered in 1570.
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The phrase is actually “hoist by his own petard” a petard is a small barrel of gunpowder used as a bomb and the phrase literally means “he blew himself up”
Think Progress » FACT: CIA Faced ‘Significant Pressure’ on Iraq Intel
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You can avoid caffeine by choosing green teas such as Chinese Gunpowder, and herbal teas with rose hips, chamomile, peppermint and raspberry.
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The explosion was triggered in a classroom where students, aged 9-11, were inserting fuses into fireworks that had been filled with gunpowder by older students.
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That way the hard barrel compresses the relatively soft metal of the bullet as the exploding gunpowder hurls the projectile down the barrel.
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Lit at one end, the small amount of gunpowder in the core of the fuse burned slowly along the length of the cord that surrounded it.
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Japan's reactionary Tokugawa shogunate employed gunpowder to obliterate troublemakers and then banned all guns—even its own—for the sake of preserving the samurais' sword-wielding hegemony.
Where They Got Their Grit
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They had cannons and gunpowder; they had the compass; they were advancing in the design of sailing ships.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
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Each ship was carrying gunpowder and the ships were made of wood with canvas sails.
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Although the government built armories, nevertheless, about 60 percent of U.S. gunpowder was imported.
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Land area: 15,000 square meters Gunpowder (90 kg), fuse (1,300 m), seismograph with nine sensors, electroencephalograph, and electrocardiograph Hiro Ihara, courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Cry Dragon/Cry Wolf: The Ark of Genghis Khan
'Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe'
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The _tormentum_, which was an elastic instrument, discharged stones and darts, and was continued until the discovery of gunpowder.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
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Liquid propellants clearly have the edge over gunpowder for military applications such as this.
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We can't say one is more likely than another - the water system map was there, the ferrocyanide was there and the gunpowder was there.
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Gunpowder was introduced into Europe during the first half of the 14th century.
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The youngest sailors would also have had a ‘fireman’ role, damping down loose gunpowder to prevent explosions.
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Government officials had the power to scrape up dried urine from beneath the boarded floors of the stables because it contained saltpetre, a vital ingredient of gunpowder.
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There were no signs of gunpowder residue on the body, suggesting that he was not shot at close range.
Times, Sunday Times
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His ugliness was embittered somewhat by sunken, toothless jaws and an enigmatical stare from a cross-eye; he was also knock-kneed, and as an erstwhile gunpowder worker, had lost two fingers and a large part of one ear.
Across China on Foot
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The shells contain silver iodide, explosives and gunpowder.
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A bombshell filled with gunpowder, a gunlock, and a small clock, have been suggested as forming the components of this invention.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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From the young person employed as housemaid, I gets what I take the liberty to call my ground-plan of the baronet's habits; beginning with his late breakfast, consisting chiefly of gunpowder tea and cayenne pepper, and ending with the scroop of his latch-key, to be heard any time from two in the morning to day-break.
Run to Earth A Novel
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The shells contain silver iodide, explosives and gunpowder.
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You can avoid caffeine by choosing green teas such as Chinese Gunpowder, and herbal teas with rose hips, chamomile, peppermint and raspberry.
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The thrown spear did not survive competition with the longbow, crossbow, and firearm in the West but it continued in cultures innocent of gunpowder.
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The infantry of early modern Europe combined the fire of gunpowder weapons - first the arquebus and then the matchlock musket - and the shock of cold steel.
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The Spaniards brought deceases unknown to the American immune system, the horse, gunpowder and Catholicism.
OpEdNews - Diary: cliff567 on Hugo Chavez
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The gunpowder is composed of carbon and other substances, making it highly combustible; and the guncotton is another combustible preparation.
The Chemical History of a Candle
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The old system of primer and gunpowder is going to be replaced by something entirely different — maybe along the lines of the electronic rail gun that NASA is experimenting with.
The 50 Best Guns of All Time
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By the second half of the fifteenth century the face of warfare had changed with the introduction of gunpowder to Europe.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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Whenever that much decaying gunpowder is scraped together, the result is usually less a bang than a whimper.
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Nobel was the owner of more than 350 patented inventions during his lifetime, including the blasting cap, blasting gelatin, and ballistite, one of the first nitroglycerine smokeless powders to be used as a substitute for black gunpowder.
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The cellar was searched and, hidden amid the large quantity of firewood stored there, 36 barrels of gunpowder were found, along with fuses.
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There was wax, matches, a long fuse, gunpowder and 20 bullets packed around a quarter stick of dynamite.
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Cannons, guns, gunpowder, swords and many other weapons of war were needed and Spain bought them from whoever would sell to them.
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After the remains of the satellite had crashed to earth, the village head noticed that the air had a smoky, gunpowdery smell and thought a plane had crashed nearby.
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As I walked forward to obey, my eye fell on a small keg standing by the side of the main-mast, on which the word gunpowder was written in pencil.
The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean
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Last April, the Horn Book Blog did its usual "pour trail of gunpowder, light match, stand back and look thoughtful" thing and made a statement about the "squishiness" in children's book reviewing.
Archive 2008-07-01
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He enclosed gunpowder in a tight fabric wrapping to create the first safety fuse.
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Gunpowder is a mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur, and early gunpowder was just that: a powder.
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Both smelled of gunpowder and I noticed that only empty shells were in the loops of his gunbelt.
On Dear Days Gone By
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The insurgents dug in, establishing a gunpowder magazine.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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Maybe Boone noticed crystals of potassium nitrate there, because the deep, loose floor was soon being mined for niter to make gunpowder.
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Here, in the wreck of an old galiot, he hid every article dry and secure; kegs of liquors and wine, shawls and blankets, pieces of silk, gunpowder, beautiful pipes, bars of silver and copper, and a whole bag of gold.
Tales of the Chesapeake
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The barrel of gunpowder blew up with a terrible noise.
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I bought diesel, petrol, meths, engine oil, kindling and even a light sprinkling of gunpowder.
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He calls the nightingale _sirena de'boschi_, gunpowder _l'irreparabil fulmine terreno_, Columbus _il ligure Argonauta_, Galileo _il novello
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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A cask of gunpowder was fired close to the wall of the Clerkenwell House of Detention, at 3.45 p.m. on December 13, 1867.
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The motive power is gunpowder, and the article to be produced is perhaps a hole in an armor-plate, perhaps a breach in a concealed escarp, or perhaps destructive effect on troops.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
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After his arrest he said that he used the gunpowder to interest his nieces and nephews in science.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the mere possession of a lot of cannon and gunpowder, or air-to-surface missiles, is not enough.
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A lack of bullets initially put investigators off the scent of gunpowder.
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Smokeless gunpowder is hard to ignite, and it burns very hot and very quickly once you get it going.
Would putting smokeless gun powder in a water proof match container make good fire starter.
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Supposedly, a white mage could fire gunpowder or cammabark.
Wellspring of Chaos
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They were destroyed with the help of gunpowder, canons, and fireballs.
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Gunpowder complicated things further, so from the sixteenth century on, troops slapped wood and iron and marched and countermarched to the choreography of drillmasters.
George Washington’s First War
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As soon as the word cannon left his lips, men began racing about the deck with gunpowder and heaving great big black masses that were the cannon balls towards the 24 pounder cannons, which were thrust out of the gun port lids in preparation.
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Gunpowder was introduced into Europe during the first half of the 14th century.
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They Wall round the Wells to ye mines to Secure their Mold'ring in upon them, they Generally Look very pale and yellow that work Underground, they are fforc'd to keep Lights wth them and sometymes are forced to use Gunpowder to break ye stones, and yt is sometymes Hazardous to the people and destroys them at ye work.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
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The finished design marks the 400th anniversary of the 1605 gunpowder plot, led by infamous York son Guy Fawkes.
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The chief becomes fixated on getting gunpowder so that he can use some captured cannonry on a rival tribe, but the Frenchman's services in this regard don't change the chief's basic contempt for him.
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But all that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and I was glad enough to embark on a Genoese polacca which was loading for the Ionian Islands with gunpowder and munitions for Ali de Tebelen.
A Start in Life
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The Medieval walls without flanks and terreplein to resist gunpowder bombardment were easy prey to the besiegers and the fortifications soon succumbed.
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In the 1500s and 1600s, for instance, the throned dynasts of Europe, Africa and Asia all put the same technology—gunpowder—to widely disparate uses and ends.
Where They Got Their Grit
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But all that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and I was glad enough to embark on a Genoese polacca which was loading for the Ionian Islands with gunpowder and munitions for Ali de Tebelen.
A Start in Life
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A cloud of smoke billowed up from the barrel of the pistol and the odor of gunpowder filled her nostrils.
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Propellants such as gunpowder are so-called low explosives that burn but do not normally detonate.
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If you are interested in purchasing a balance, I can recommend one made by Lyman for weighing gunpowder and bullets.
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But health and safety investigators are probing whether a spark from an axle grinder could have ignited gunpowder residue.
The Sun
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Before gunpowder, give me a suit of plate-and-mail, a stout helm, and a whomping big shield, and keep magic out of it, and I'll make mincepie out of unarmored or lightly armored opponents.
More Odds, More Ends
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Santa Barbara, who is said in the Catholic calendar to preside over thunder and lightning, fire and gunpowder, and all kinds of combustious explosions.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
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Many of the wars in this century were fought with TNT as the main explosive and with gunpowder as the main propellant of bullets and artillery shells.
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I bought diesel, petrol, meths, engine oil, kindling and even a light sprinkling of gunpowder.
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In the early days of quarrying, one-foot holes were made and whole kegs of gunpowder used in blasting.
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Vast quantities of clothing, gunpowder, pikes, halberds, swords, and muskets poured out of the workshops of the metropolis.
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The Eiffel-like edifice is modelled on the 1799 Faversham church spire which adopted very similar buttresses in order to soften the blow should it fall into the town as a result of an explosion at the nearby gunpowder works.
Destination Moon
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Dried dark leaves of moxa mixed with gunpowder.
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It is dangerous for children to play with gunpowder.
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The barrel of gunpowder blew up with a terrible noise.
