And if you linger in the neighborhood you begin to feel that this is more Chinese than the gaudy dragons and the firecracker daubs and the bobbing paper lanterns of fiction.
He was standing almost over it when the firecrackerwent off, making a tremendous report and scattering the light blazing paper in all directions.
Tom drew out the firecracker still in his pocket and lit it on the sly.
As soon as the firecracker went off, this man rushed up and demanded an explanation.
The firecracker and the torpedo were always dangerous nuisances and should have been done away with long ago for something harmless and more sensible.
An ounce of it would make a safe and satisfactory firecracker in a boy's hands; while the same quantity in skilful hands, could be made to blow up an immense battleship!
When they sat down to breakfast they found a firecracker under each plate and the boys were not in evidence, which showed that more mischief was brewing.
The most beautiful Laurens needs a giant firecracker and a dynamite cap and cane to bring him down to the proper altitude.
I cried and tried to gain her sympathy by telling her the firecracker went off before it was due, and burned my eyebrows off, but she didn't let up until I promised to go and find Pa.
Well, then something, just right after this explosion, made me think that it was a firecrackerbeing thrown from the Texas Book Store.
I heard an explosion, which I thought was a toy cannon or a loud firecracker from west of the building.
Several times I went into the city to visit Firecracker Row, and on one occasion took a series of photographs to show more clearly than words will do the important steps in the process of manufacture.
But in my mind, I think I identified the last two positively as shots, whereas the first one I thought was just an explosive noise, and I didn't know whether it was a firecracker or a shot.
Will you give us the best estimate of the lapse of time from the instant you heard the sound which appeared to you to be a firecracker until you instructed Mr. Greer in the way you have described?
It was 5 seconds from the firecracker noise that you think you got to the automobile?
What is your best estimate of the time, in seconds, from the first noise sounding like a firecracker until the second noise which you heard?
I am going to say that I have, from the firecracker report and the two other shots that I know, those were three shots.
Except I should say again that when this first one went off, which I indicated here that it sounded like a firecracker to my right and, say, rear, I looked to my right to see what it was.
But none of the people moved or took any action, whereas they would have if a firecracker went off.
I realized something was wrong, but I thought they were dodging somebody throwing things at the car like firecrackers or something, but I did see dust fly up like a firecracker had burst up in the air.
I thought it was a firecracker portion; that's what we first were looking for.
Would they have been as far down as the underpass or somewhere near the sign to have thrown a firecracker in the street?
Off of President Kennedy and I couldn't tell you which one of the cracks of the firecracker resulted in this.
It was a pop that I don't believe I could identify it any other way than as a firecracker and this particular picture was made at the time the first firecracker noise was heard by me.
Nagkilikíti siyag papil nga gam-ung pabílu sa ribintadur, She made fine, tight rolls of paper to make into firecracker fuses.
Napugwat ang bátà sa pagbutu sa libintadur, The child was startled out of his sleep when the firecracker exploded.
Nakugang (nakugangan) ku sa pagbutu sa ribintadur, I was startled when the firecracker burst.
I never felt that way at home, when I visited a cemetery, but I though I would shoot my last roman candle and fire my last giant firecracker right there in that moseleum, and take the chances that we would get out alive.
When you light a firecracker, the flame travels down the wick until it reaches the gunpowder, and then the firecracker bursts with a bang.
That is why a firecracker merely fizzes when you break it in two and light the powder.
If you light a small pile of gunpowder in the open, as you do when you make a squib by breaking the firecracker in two, you merely have a blaze.
If I was very patriotic I don't believe I'd have read it clear through to the end myself, but I ain't never felt any call to be patriotic since the boys throwed that firecracker into my henhouse last Fourth of July.
A sharp report as a firecracker or as it was it was the report of this rifle.
It is a more penetrating sound than a firecracker or a blowout.
I would say a firecracker or a blowout has more of a hollow, bursting kind of sound, as if you popped a balloon, or something of this sort.
From the stern again came the sickening pop of firecrackers where the Chilean crew resumed their fishing, hauling in a slender, stupid variety of catfish and then tossing it back with a well-timed firecracker thrust in its gaping throat.
For the Giant Firecracker Invitations= you will need several sheets of bright red tissue paper, more of white tissue paper, and some white unlined writing paper.
Now prepare and write the note of invitation to be put in the firecracker envelope.
If you haven’t note paper with a firecracker in the corner, why, you can get out your box of paints and do the decorating yourself.
Well, because you know it will soon be the Fourth of July, and some boys may tie a firecracker or a skyrocket to your tail," said the porcupine.
They will have a hard time doing that, for my tail is so short that the boys would burn their fingers if they tried to tie a firecracker to it.
Because when the sky-cracker gets high enough in the air the firecracker part of it will go off with a bang, and he'll be killed.
Why, that big, red firecracker on the mantle, of course.
And the fox knew it would be a perfectly tremendous explosion, for the firecracker was as big as a hundred lead pencils made into one.
He was the same fox who lighted the firecracker in Dr.
And of course the fox was in a hurry, for he wanted to get out of the way before that firecracker went off and blew the house up.
The string on the firecracker burned slowly, but surely.
Now in case you don't burn yourself with a firecracker and lose your penny down a hole in the sidewalk, I'm going to tell you in the next story about Buddy and Brighteyes' Fourth of July.
Upon the walls of such charming gorges the firecracker flower rears its slender stem and shakes out its bunch of brilliant crimson blossoms.
Then one ugly looking young fellow lighted a firecracker and sent it toward the automobile.
He saw the street rough throw a lighted firecracker at the other machine.
We'll manage this way," said Winthrop, and drawing one of the oars into the boat, he laid a lighted firecracker on the blade and pushed it out again.
The firecracker went off with a bang, and in great glee Patty pulled in the other oar and tried the same plan.
There was still some time lapse from the time you heard the noise like a firecracker and she came up?
Now, the first was just a loud explosion but it sounded like a giantfirecracker or something had gone off.
Well, I heard something sounded like it was a firecracker and a slight pause and then two more a little bit closer together.
It sounded like a firecracker or a cannon at a football game, it seemed as if it came from the right below rather than from the left above.
The owner of the voice was seated at the desk, leaning back in his rolling-chair, a big firecracker of a cigar in the corner of his mouth.
But right from between his feet a sparrow, like a firecracker exploding, sprang and went whirring up in the sky.
Appropriate place-cards for a Fourth of July luncheon or dinner may be made by covering small glass bottles about the size of a firecracker with red tissue paper, and filling them with little candies.
The luncheon to be served should be as far as possible in the prevailing colors, the ices might be in firecracker form, and the starry banner should appear wherever it can be introduced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firecracker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clack; clapper; cracker; cricket; firecracker; fireworks; horn; rattle; siren; snapper; whistle
