You may think when you first see us that you ought to fire right away, but hold your powder until we come.
It isn't wasting powder to shoot one of those wolves!
Reuben had his rifle, his bags of powder and shot, and a saddle and bridle.
Powder and lead, two or three blankets, a few cooking utensils, and a scanty store of provisions comprised most of the outfit of the little train.
Don't you no dat we ain't bin able ter by er gun er ounce powderin munts, an' de bocra got cannon an ebry ting.
The snow came thick and fast; as it fell it was caught up again like so much powder and blown against the wigwam, where it lay in huge drifts.
In the late winter days, snow fine as powderfills the air like a vapor.
It was still bleeding when one afternoon she walked in with her old triumphant look; she wore her hat with an air crâne, and the powder on her face was even and intact, like the first pure fall of snow.
She would come to me looking more ruined than ruinous, haggard and ashy, her eyes all shrunk and hot with crying, and stand before the glass, looking at herself and dabbing on powderin an utter abandonment to misery.
She wore one of her oldest dresses and obviously had neither powder on her face nor the lightest touch of the rouge which became her so well.
I gauged our movement, and dropped an explosive powder bomb.
A bullet projector spat, with its queer stab of exploding powder fed by the burning oxygen fumes of its artificial air-chamber--one of our men firing.
And when her false gunner, to spoyle her intent, 45 Away all her pellets and powder had sent, Straight with her keen weapon shee slasht him in three: Was not this a brave bonny lasse, Mary Ambree?
And, as it is the souldiers use When shot and powder gins to want, I hanged up my flagge of truce, And pleaded up for my lives grant.
Then did her gunner spoyle her intent, pelletts & powder away had he sent: then with her sword shee cutt him in 3, was not this a braue bonye lasse, Mary Aumbree?
There might you se his band all drest In colours like to white and blacke, With powder and with pelletes prest 15 To bring the fort to spoile and sacke.
Her face might pass in candlelight for about thirty; but, without paint and powder it looked five years older than reality.
Pitou heard the hammer fall and saw the priming flash; the powder in the touchhole did not catch and the living target received no bullet.
They saw at some points the continuous blaze of guns, and the acrid powder smoke, lying low, was floating through all the thickets.
If they want to discover our location they can do it without wasting so much powder and lead.
The powder behaved in some experiments as though it contained alumina, but it did not exhibit with sufficient distinctness the red of the latter.
It is intended to replace ordinary diamond powder for polishing precious stones, etc.
The small hollow sphere s is filled with some conducting powder, and a wire w is cemented in the neck for the purpose of connecting the conducting powder with the generator.
When the powder is used I have found it best to proceed as follows: I make a thick paint of carborundum and tar, and pass a lamp filament through the paint.
Among many insulating powders I have found that micapowder is the best to employ.
The loss of powder lately sustained by us (about five tons), together with the quantities sent on to the southward, have reduced our stock very low indeed.
But it is a fact, in spite of the mildness of their governors, the people are ground to powder by the vices of the form of government.
Director Stuyvesant, when he came to New Netherland, endeavored according to his orders to stop in a proper manner the contraband trade in guns, powder and lead.
Besides, the store ofpowder in the fort, as well as in the city, was small.
But he does not mind; he exhibits the orders of the Managers that he might do so, and says moreover that he should receive a supply of powder and lead by the Falconer for the purpose.
Everybody what handlespowder or dynamite has got to have a license.
The flints are gude,' she said, 'and the powder dry; I ken this wark weel.
I took a lump of the sublimated matter, freed from adhering impurities, and reduced it to the state of a fine powder by pulverizing in an agate mortar, and trituration.
The latter was a brass-mounted shooting-flask, of translucent horn, having a flaw through which grains of powder sometimes escaped.
In name, there is also another variety of this pigment, known as Native Prussian Blue; which is really a native phosphate of iron, occurring as a blue earthy powder, or as a white powder that becomes blue by exposure.
A purple powder is capable of being produced from bismuth by passing chlorine gas through the hydrated oxide suspended in a saturated solution of potash.
When an alkaline solution of murexide is precipitated by an acid, a light shining powder results, called purpuric acid.
The best smalt in lumps appears black, yields a blue powder on grinding, becomes paler on further grinding, and may be almost decolourised by continued and excessive grinding.
A coarse gritty texture is peculiar to smalt, whether it be the Powder Blue of the washtub and Blue Sand of the pottery, or the Dumont's and Royal Blue of the artist and high-class manufacturer.
They also recommended that every man should provide himself with "a good firelock, with bayonet attached, powder and ball," to be in readiness to act in any emergency.
Then said Morgan, "Ball and powderkill much prouder men than George's; On your rifles and a careful aim rely.
Bullet on bullet near her fell, While rang the Indians' angry yell; But safely through that whirring rain, Powder in arms, came Betty Zane.
Again their gallant blood we spill: That volley was the last: Our powder failed.
One bright English lad brings powder and a wounded man the shot, And we scotch that Chinese dragon, tail and head.
In the confusion of the moment, no reinforcements were sent them, and Prescott, to his dismay, discovered that his supply of powder and ball was nearly exhausted.
But whilepowder would burn in a cannon, Till the water drowned his deck, Boggs pounded away with his pivots From his slowly settling wreck.
With decks afloat, and powder gone, The last broadside we gave From the guns' heated iron lips Burst out beneath the wave.
They've fired the powder magazine and blown it to the sky!
Wherewith I send, responsive to thy call, A powder rare to cleanse thy teeth withal.
The Africans use very much heavier charges of powderthan those in used in civilized nations, ramming down a handful of slugs, of half a dozen small bullets, upon the powder.
A great quantity of the Ashanti powder was stored there, and each explosion excited yells of rage among the Ashantis.
All the combatants took shelter behind trees, and the consequence was that at the end of the day a great quantity of powder and slugs had been fired away, and a very few men hit on either side.
They are made of coarse powder mixed with other things, and rammed into an iron case.
One of these was now bestowed upon the chief, together with some powder and ball, three bright cotton handkerchiefs, some gaudy glass beads, and two looking glasses for his wives.
It would be possible if there were powder enough," Frank said, wondering what could be the motive of the question.
They say that the English have put powder in holes all over Cape Coast, and my people are afraid to go.
But suppose we quarrel," the king said, "they can stop powder and guns from coming up.
These entered the village which had been deserted by the Ashantis, and set it on fire, blowing up several kegs of powder which had been left there in the hurry of the flight.
If Elmina were mine I could bring up guns and powder at all times.
We even cut off the supplies ofpowder and arms to the Fantis, whose loyalty to our rule was thereby much shaken.
The deck burst up, as though all the powder she had carried at Trafalgar had exploded beneath it, and the next moment she broke out in inextinguishable flames.
Yes, we will make the projectile according to your specification, but you will, of course, supply the bursting charge and the charge of this new powder of yours which is to send it into Space.
It ran along the line so rapidly that it reminded me of a train of powder burning.
As I looked they were priming them with powder from their musket cartridges, and no doubt intended to fire a musket into this priming.
It was an instrument something like a bellows, and it fired by a simple squeeze, sending a shower of powder that fell in all directions.
He drew from his pocket an insect-powder gun, and fired it.
The Mexicans carved the obdurate jade and emerald with wonderful skill, using, like the Peruvians, nothing but silicious powder and copper instruments alloyed with tin.
The Bedouins, in their picturesque expression, are making the powder talk.
