Up came the beautiful solid brass cordite cartridges; and the four-inch shells that weigh twenty-five pounds apiece.
The smack of cordite is keener, and catches one more about the heart, than the slower-burning black powder.
An empty cartridge case on the floor and the reek of cordite fumes were silent evidence to the identity of the man who fired the shot.
The air reeked with petrol vapour, mingled with the acrid, pungent fumes from the cordite charges from the nearest batteries.
A bursting shell ignited some cordite charges, and a flash of flame went down the hoist into the ammunition passage.
But a sergeant picked up a cordite charge and hurled it out of danger.
Abel's researches; in their investigations on the gases from gunpowder and cordite fired in closed steel chambers, these chemists obtained pressures as great as 95 tons to the sq.
Sir Andrew Noble has shown that in the explosion ofcordite in closed steel cylinders pressures of over 50 tons to the sq.
I begin to have a feeling that if one came within a fair distance, and did not look very fierce, I'd be inclined to lowse off my great heavy double-barrelled 450 cordite express and see if anything happened.
It made me wish, with all my heart, for time and my 450 cordite express, and I half decided to send for it to Rangoon.
Indian luncheon basket big enough for an army, and a great double 450 cordite express that would have done for the Burmese Gaur.
Snatching at the opportunity to visit his chief, Sefton hurried below to the shattered ward-room, where Crosthwaite lay on a mattress that smelt abominably of cordite and the lingering odours of poison-gas.
Something big," replied the other, wiping a thin layer of coal dust and particles of burnt cordite from the lenses of his binoculars.
Dense clouds of smoke from funnels, from bursting shells, from burning ships, began to settle over the water, and the air was acrid with the taint of burnt cordite and nitrous fumes from the German powder.
Cordite is composed of gun-cotton and nitro-glycerine.
Thereupon Mr. Brodrick, now Lord Midleton, moved to reduce the salary of the Secretary of State by way of a vote of censure on the insufficiency of the supply of cordite ammunition.
House: it was he who moved the amendment which turned out the Rosebery Administration on the cordite vote, and he led the discussion on two subsequent occasions on which we debated the same question.
You hadn't been gone a week and two days when the cordite bomb was exploded.
Horrible rumour thatcordite had done fresh stroke of work.
Brink, demanding a certificate of injuries which should enable him to extract some monetary compensation from the coffers of Stoat's Cordite Works, Limited.
Our guns, and those of our consorts, are firing deliberately, for we do not know how long the battle will endure, and the supply of 15-inch shell and cordite cannot be unlimited in the very biggest of ships.
The guns are loaded and trained, the crews stand at their stations, shells and cordite charges are ready to their hands.
Without an instant's pause, and although severely burned, Sergeant Mayes picked up a cordite charge and threw it away, afterward flooding the compartment and putting out a fire that had started in some neighbouring empty shell bags.
In Dreamland he had cast off his new personality and became his old self, and then, in his hunting shirt and with a cordite rifle in his hand, accompanied by the Zappo Zap, he had tracked elephant herds across illimitable plains.
Armand opened a case, and the deft hand of the old man took down a double-barrelled cordite rifle, light-looking and of exquisite workmanship.
At twenty-five yards or a little under, the cordite rang out.
They did, and nearly an hour was spent whilst the American chose a double hammerless-ejector cordite rifle and a .
The glare of flame as the missile struck true and the thunderous roar that hurled the big bag of the Cibola sideways told that the cordite bomb had done its work well.
I had only my little gun and my big double-barreled cordite was at the boma, three hundred yards away.
Armed with a double-barreled cordite rifle and the comforting reflection that the chances were seven to one that the rhinos would not charge, I slowly advanced alone toward the two rhinos.
The old-time "elephant gun" which shot an enormous ball and a staggering charge of black powder has given way to the modern double-barreled rifle, with its steel bullet and cordite powder.
Each of the four hunters carried a large double-barreled cordite rifle that fires a five-hundred-grain bullet, backed up by nearly a hundred grains of cordite.
Rifles It is important that each hunter include in his battery one heavy double-barreled cordite rifle for use at close quarters where a shocking impact is desirable.
He seemed vexed about something, probably the two cordite shells he was carrying.
We would then get to the leeward of him and slowly advance the machine; Mr. Akeley in the middle and Stephenson and I on each side with our double-barreled cordite rifles.
This time I used the double-barreled cordite rifle and the first shot struck him in the forehead without knocking him down.
A cloud of cordite smoke shot out from the side of a cruiser at anchor there--the Talbot; and both of them watched to see where the shell burst.
The magazines were below this fore cross passage, and men standing in them handed up the six-inch cordite charges through open hatches.
The breeze, too, blew the cordite smoke down the hoists when the breeches of the guns were opened to reload, and made the air and stench more disagreeable than ever.
Only the shells were wanting, for with the gun were 50 charged "hulzen" and a case of cordite "schokbuizen.
Although at first dubious about substitutingcordite for petrol he was now firmly convinced that a perfect ignition charge had been found.
He was particularly scathing in his opinion of cordite as fuel for propulsion, and had offered to bet any of his brother-officers that the "Meteor" would never return to England under her own power.
Our motors are actuated by introducing small charges of cordite into the cylinders and exploding them by electricity.
It is, of course, too early to predict with certainty that cordite will be the fuel used on our great battleships in place of oil, but to a great extent the era of the coal and oil-fed furnace is doomed.
I mean to chase that rascal as long as there is sufficient buoyancy to keep us in the air and as long as an ounce of cordite remains to actuate the motors.
I refer to the cordite motors as carried in the 'Meteor.
A shell burst and ignited some cordite charges in the casemate; a flash of flame went down the hoist into the ammunition passage.
With the greatest presence of mind, he immediately isolated the cordite charges in the vicinity, closed the sliding scuttle in the hoist, and at the same time ordered his men to run for the nearest hoses to flood the compartment.
Only fragments entered, but there were ten casualties, most of them burns; one man was killed instantly, and he remained in the same position after death with arms bent for holding a cordite charge.
Sergeant Mayes picked up a charge of corditeand threw it away.
The bright flashes of their guns showed up strikingly, followed successively by the dark brown puffs of cordite smoke; the seconds were counted until the reports were heard and huge columns of water thrown up by the splashes were seen.
Up another gangway enough cordite to blow up the whole of Liverpool was being gingerly carried in small cases.
We found a noisy and rather gratifying revenge in destroying some ammunition which was buried in the garden; the throwing of three thousand rounds of cordite ammunition into the fire is a peculiarly exciting game.
It may be of interest to explain that cordite is a form of smokeless powder composed of gun cotton, nitroglycerine, and mineral jelly.
The acrid smell of cordite drifted over them, while without cessation there came the solemn boom--boom--boom of the heavier guns way back.
I killed him, Bill," said Reginald, half an hour later, as he sat rubbing his eyes on the fire step of their own trenches to get the stinging of the cordite out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cordite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
