Then," said Bismarck, keeping thecanister by him, "go now and make me a pot of coffee.
The man obeyed, and handed Bismarck a canister full of chicory.
As has been noted, the charcoal and cement were packed in the canister in alternate layers.
A metal canister in which was contained the absorptive neutralizing chemicals.
Each canister also contained concrete granules in a definite proportion to the carbon pieces.
The canister, moreover, must be equipped with a perfectly working check valve which will stop exhalation through the canister and force the air to pass out through the flutter valve.
The canister must withstand corrosion and must be gas-tight.
Of the canister ingredients the charcoal offered the more difficult technical problem.
The story of the carbon (charcoal) which went into the American canister is one of the most interesting phases of the whole undertaking.
It was evident, however, that the more charcoal or carbon which could be packed into the canister and still allow the free passage of air the greater the amount of gas that would be absorbed.
This contained the canister and a pocket for storing away the mask when not in use.
The flexible hose leading from the canister to the face piece must be strong and without flaws or leaks, and yet flexible in the extreme.
A flexible hose reaching from the canister to the face piece.
They were at once in fair canister range, and soon under the terrific fire of a solid line of infantry,--infantry so experienced that they were not likely to throw as much as one bullet without well-directed aim.
Captain Miller charged and double-charged with spherical case and canisteruntil his guns at the discharge leaped in the air from ten to twelve inches.
Forty guns were belching forth canister and grape on the advancing Russians, who appeared to be taken by surprise.
It was Nagy Sandor's artillery showering grape and canister upon the enemy's advanced guard.
I was nearly up to my arm-pits; a number of our poor fellows were drowned, or shot down with grape and canister (that came amongst us like hail) while attempting to cross.
I remember there wascanister shot in the powder magazine, but it didn't seem all that important this morning, and we didn't have time to move it over here.
Another pushed a canister of grapeshot in after it.
After pushing a second bag of gunpowder down the muzzle, Cooper said, "What we need now is canister shot that'd spread all over the place and puncture a lot of Indians.
Probably this was a piece of what the long knives called canister shot or grapeshot in Wolf Paw's shoulder.
In a moment our gunners had grappled with the nearest pieces, swung them half round, and were pouring streams of canisterinto the invaded wood.
From the former place they worked one large and two small guns with much effect, firing canister loaded with nails.
I need not say that our preserved meats would make very fair cannon-balls, canister shot!
Hearing the firing, we turned and we met them, Our cannon replying to theirs with a will; Fiercely with grape and with canister swept them, And chased them in wrath from the brow of the hill.
It has been ascertained that fighting will never be confined to long ranges--that guns which can throw large volumes of spherical case and canister into lines only a few hundred yards distant are as necessary as ever.
The 12-pounders, sometimes called Napoleons, are of bronze, with large caliber, and used chiefly for throwing shell and canister at comparatively short distances.
As she was putting the canister in its place again, Betsy came in.
She knew what it meant, and dashed the silver into a wide-necked canister on the high mantelshelf, which contained also her own earnings for the week.
He held out a tiny nugget of gold, about as big as a small pea; and it was duly examined, put in a small canister upon the shelf, and then the evening meal went on, and Tregelly refreshed himself with large draughts of tea.
Making a hole in the rim of the canister near the lid, he filled the vessel with powder and firmly closed it.
Dennis heard a brisk exchange of bad Spanish; then the sailor returned, with a small canister out of which he poured a heap of peppercorns.
Feeling with his hand for the middle panel of the door, Dennis laid the canister down close against it.
Pulling within twenty yards of them, we plied them alternately with grape and canister from our six-pounder.
It was now about six o'clock in the morning, our last charge of canister shot was in the gun, the last rocket in the tube, and nearly all the percussion caps expended.
Canister now rained on their flanks, and as they came within closer range a hurricane of bullets burst upon them, and men dropped on every side like leaves in the winds of autumn.
Then the canister from the big howitzer and other guns doubly decimated them, yet the brave fellows gained the parapet.
Crossing the second hedge, they came under the terrible fire of canister which struck the left of the Highlanders and the centre of the Roundheads, literally cutting the latter in two.
The Federal troops went forward in an impetuous charge through a storm of grape and canister which was poured into their ranks.
Hooker's batteries hurried into action and opened with canister on the cornfield.
The battle re-opened with utmost fury, and the ranks of both armies were torn with grape and canister and bursting shells.
Round shot, shell, canister and rifle balls were poured into them at close range from the front, and a battery on Round Top raked the line from the right.
The Confederate front recoiled from the incessant outpour of grape, canister and shell.
They were forced to breast one of the most devastating storms of lead and canister to which an assaulting army has ever been subjected.
This time they were not met by the cavalrymen alone, but the cannon belched forth its deadly charge of canister in their faces.
Quick as thought, the two cannon were run forward and a storm of canister swept the bushes.
The canister and the heavy musketry fire were too much for the bluejackets and they were compelled to slowly draw back out of range while the Confederates shouted taunts after them.
The solid shot and the grape and the canister were bad enough, but when a great, smoking shell dropped into the midst of a regiment, the bravest men fled for shelter.
As the charge came nearer and nearer the batteries changed to the more terrible grape and canister which cut the men down like grass before a reaper.
The fight was going against the Union men when suddenly a Union battery wheeled into line on a near-by hill and poured a rain of grape and canister into the Confederates which drove them out in short order.
As the Confederate column came around the curve, they were met by a hell of grape and canister from the batteries which at last had been mounted in position.
The besieged ran forward a couple of light guns loaded with double charges of canister and grape and rushed to the angle all of their available forces.
In this charge, Tinkham received a bayonet wound through his left shoulder while a jagged piece of canister had ripped through his left arm.
Flat on their faces officers and men lay in a little marsh while the canister swished against the tall marsh-grass and the minie balls moaned horribly as they picked out exposed men here and there.
Then in a second they unlimbered their guns and poured in a fire of the tin cans filled with bullets called canister which was deadly on the close-packed ranks of the Confederates hurrying up to the Angle.
Back and forth he rode before the guns and the caissons carrying stands of canister under his rubber coat.
Flesh and blood could not stand, however, against the volleys of grape and canister which ripped bloody, struggling lanes right through the masses of the charging men.
When the charge began he fought his battery as fast as the guns could be loaded and fired and his grape-shot and canister mowed down the charging Confederates by the hundred.
And Linde's spirits rose again as she helped her sister to cleanse the canister from every speck of dust or mould and then to fill it with the perfumed leaves.
In fact the useful tin canisterwas this time completely filled.
Some had been fortunate enough to lay hands on some tins of coffee or a canister of tea, luxuries which for months had been unknown to them save when they were captured from the enemy.
All being ready, the boats pulled in towards the stockade, where the best place for landing appeared to exist, keeping up all the time a continued fire of spherical, grape, and canister shot.
During this time she fired away in return at the enemy, who appeared abreast of her, every charge of grape and canister on board, and was then reduced to round shot.
We had had a clear run of over 200 yards under that murderous fire of grape, canister and musketry.
Our men advanced splendidly, with a ringing British cheer, although the enemy poured a terrible fire of grape, canister and musketry into them, which swept down whole companies at a time.
Two rounds of canister produced disorder in their ranks, without checking their speed, and they fell like lightning on the defenders of Poblacion del Sur.
Major, just fire a round of canister into that group to teach them not to treat us as fools.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canister" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: case; compact; dish; file; receptacle
