Roman candles are fusees which throw out very bright stars in succession.
The serpents are small fusees made with one or two playing cards; their bore being less than half an inch.
The fusees are fixed obliquely and not tangentially to their peripheries.
Montgery, captain of a frigate in the French service, has written a Traite sur les Fusees de Guerre, in which he discusses the merits of the Congreve rockets, and describes methods of imitating them.
All the fusees take fire at once through channels charged with quick matches.
All this while, I knew not what was the matter, but rousing immediately from sleep with the noise, I caused the boat to be thrust in, and resolved with three fusees we had on board to land and assist our men.
Our men were but nine in all, and only five of them had fusees with them; the rest had pistols and swords, indeed, but they were of small use to them.
So once, while she lay still a moment, I slipped out onto the guards, and as I lifted my hand to throw the fusees into the river she caught it in hers, it and them.
I was afraid that down in the stateroom she'd find the fusees in my pocket and that I should go to jail as a public thief.
Indian men all armed with fusees & Bows & arrows Came out of a wood on the opposite bank about 1/4 of a mile below us.
Dogs and hunters were at work, and muskets and fuseesresounded from every quarter.
When Captain Nicholl said that the projectile would be broken like glass, Michel answered that he would retard the fall by means of fusees properly arranged.
These fusees were to burn in the void it is true, but oxygen would not fail them, for they would furnish that themselves like the lunar volcanoes, the deflagration of which has never been prevented by the want of atmosphere around the moon.
They came slowly, doing plenty of yelling, and firing theirfusees at random.
Matches were burning, the cocks of the fusees raised, and the Virginians stood cool and undaunted.
The fusees leading to the magazine, where all the powder was deposited, were calculated to burn for a quarter of an hour.
Besides an immense quantity of fusees and grenades--which were at that time much used--upward of three hundred quintals of gunpowder were found in the arsenal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fusees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
