The figure of a Petard ready made, and primed, is signified by the figure E.
She would make up with Isabelle in time to hear what Jean Jacques Petard would say now.
The next letter from Jean Jacques Petard was a flaming torch of passion.
Rupert, at once, got out of bed to search the arsenal; but no such thing as a petard was to be found.
Odd though it may appear, a petard was to Digby a thing unknown--"a word which he could not understand.
The petard is put on the composition, at the end, when it has been filled, and the remaining paper of the cartridge is folded down over it, to keep it firm.
The petardproduces its effect, when the rocket is in the air, and the composition is consumed.
The petard is used to break down the gates and barriers of small towns, and even their walls, by hanging it against them, and setting fire to the fuse.
When the petard is to be loaded, it is filled with powder to within three inches of the bottom.
A plate of iron four or five lines thick is set into this, that fits the inside of the petard at that part.
They are charged in the same way as the petard lances, and also in the manner described for port-fires.
Let us make a petard to blow up the gate of the moat on the land side!
A cheer of triumph breaks from the town as they behold the retiring squadrons; they know not that the petard is now attached to the gate, and that the horsemen are merely withdrawn for the explosion.
Ay, the petard has done its work; but the columns are not come up.
The crash of the petard was answered by a cheer wild as a war-whoop, and onward the infuriated soldiers poured through the still burning timbers.
The city gates fly open of themselves, They need no longer the petard to tear them.
The tenacious, elastic sand defied all tools or leverage: no petard could blast so fickle and treacherous a substance.
It was necessary to use a petard to lay bare the treasure, and no one had the necessary skill.
The Swedish petard you brought in as such a precious treasure, boy, has indeed done its work.
Petard had served in the Allied aviation forces during the war but he had later been revealed as a German spy and had thrown his lot with that of the Sky Hawk, former German war ace.
No one seemed to know where Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petardhad gone after they had wrecked their car.
There was nothing in the library about Pierre Petard the criminal.
Even though Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard were villains of the deepest dye, he had no desire to wish any man death under a flaming car.
The flying reporter told his new friend of their experiences with Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard and gave him an outline of his own conclusions.
Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard were considered the two most dangerous members of the gang next to the Sky Hawk himself.
The captain had pictures of Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard for the flying reporters to study.
Intuition must have caused Pierre Petard to glance over his shoulder just in time to see Hunter preparing for the final swoop.
On the trip to New York Tim discussed plans for the capture of Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard with the young aircraft designer.
We'll come out," cried a weak voice and Pierre Petard stood up in his cockpit.
The reputation of Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard was known to every police official in the central west.
The bank may offer a sizeable sum and it won't be long until the capture of Shanghai Sam and Pierre Petard will mean a small fortune.
It was a beautiful take-off and Tim knew that the master hand of Pierre Petard was at the controls.
But we will first summon the turret, and then think whether the petard will serve our turn--it is but mining at last.
The bungling fools cannot fix their petard without the use of torches!
Now, truly, I had hanged my petard well and 'twas plain the shock of it had gone far to shatter the wall of confidence our enemies had builded on the field of Camden and elsewhere.
There will be other couriers in from the battle-field at King's Mountain; and you must hang and fire your news-petard and vanish before they come to betray you.
To hoist the German with his own petard is particularly sweet to the British mind.
To hoist the Briton with his own petard is particularly sweet to the German mind.
Does it seem to me so from weakness, or did Oskyerko try to blow up the gate with a petard two days since?
In one place a house, fired by the petard employed to force the door, was actually alight.
He spoke solemnly, laughing in his sleeve at the cleverness with which he was turning his enemy's petard against him.
He snatched up the petard and the hammer, I the spike.
Captain Robert lay scarcely fifteen paces from us, and by his side the hammer, spike, and petard he had carried.
If a friendly hand had not pulled me back, I should have run on to the petard which drove in the second gate.
There was a consultation between Petard and a few of his officers and men, and finally there stepped forth a large, powerful member of the troop-the bully of the band-who offered without weapons to contend with the new comer.
They had already, as we have before stated, often failed in their efforts upon the robber; and to incense Petard against him, was for the father to sacrifice the life of his child.
Indeed, Petard had frankly told her of the communications that had taken place between her father and himself concerning her ransom.
So that Petard remained virtually the master of the district, and levied such tax as he pleased upon such of the better classes as he could arrest upon the road.
Cunning beyond what usually falls to the lot of roguery," continued Carlton, "Petard delighted in outwitting his enemies of the law, and in leading those whom he desired to fleece into his net.
But on a well-barred, double gate the small petard was useless, and the great petard would break only the fore part of such a gate.
Furthermore, as one would guess, hanging a petardwas a hazardous occupation; it went out of style in the early 1700's.
When all was ready, the petardiers seized the two handles of the petard and carried it to the troublesome door.
Since the petard fired no projectile, it was hardly a gun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
