We should require petards to blow in gates, and ought to have field guns to drive them out of the gate-houses.
In them the hooks were inserted, and from these the petards were suspended by ropes, so as to lie against the sides of the boats, an inch only above the water's level.
The petards and other objects were placed on the boom, upon which Rupert, as the lightest of the party, crept, holding in his hand a cord fastened round the log.
The petards were taken out from beneath a heap of stones, where Hugh had hid them, and were fixed on the piece of timber, one end of which was just afloat in the stream.
I have seen my cousin Gerald, but he will not let me have the petards unless he knows for what purpose they are to be used.
The log was not very large, although of considerable length, and with the petards upon it, it showed but little above water.
The celebration of Brazil's independence opens with a salvo of petards at the door, after which follows a medley of trombones, flutes, triangles and big drums, the whole dominated by an exasperating tenor voice.
The petards may be affixed to the exterior surface of the globes, which they will cause to roll and leap as they catch fire.
The petards or crackers are small cubes of paper, filled with grained gunpowder.
The petards with which the pots of incendiary rockets are charged.
If a globe prepared in this manner be fired by means of a match at the mouth of the cylinder, it will leap about as it burns on a smooth horizontal plane, according as the petards are set on fire.
Lances for petards are a kind of port-fire, used in war, but not very often.
Petards were used frequently in King William's War of the 1680's to force the gates of small German towns.
Then came the artillery, and with the loss of thirty men succeeded in placing theirpetards under the gate.
This despondency is partially accounted for by the next sentence; "The petards I cannot now send Your Highness, by reason of a strong quarrel that is fallen out between M.
The water-petards or floating mines were of a very feeble description.
The composition of these petards was of Lattin (i.
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