It is just damp earth, but earth which holds in suspense that which makes the sap stream out to the uttermost finger-tips of the trees, and burst in squibs of green.
As soon as it was light the next morning Bertie and José set to work to fill the cases-- there were a hundred squibs and fifty large crackers.
The squibs contained respectively one, two, three, and four parts of charcoal to one of powder.
Each was to carry a glowing brand, and when he got there, was to sling his gun behind him and hold twelve squibs in one hand and the brand in the other.
Laying the guns down to be ready for instant action, and keeping themselves concealed in the herbage, Harry took his bundle of squibs from his pocket.
Then all were to throw squibs and crackers as far as they could go; and the other two barrels of buck-shot and José's musket were to be poured in.
The squibs will be easier; we should only have to paste one side of the strips and roll them up so as to form suitable cases.
No, I am not thinking of rockets, but of squibsand crackers.
At noon the next day Bertie with assistance had four squibs and two crackers ready for trial.
It will not take us long to load all the squibs to-morrow.
When they approached within throwing distance of the savages, they were to lay their guns down beside them, and then Harry was to put the ends of his squibsagainst his brand, and hurl the whole of them among the Indians.
At Aix they shower squibs and crackers on the passers-by, which has often had disagreeable consequences.
For the anatomy of his frame has been cunningly contrived so as in burning to discharge volleys of squibs into his assailants; and the wounds and burns with which their piety is rewarded form a feature of the morning's entertainment.
The body of the car is loaded with a pyramid of squibs and crackers and is connected by a wire with a pillar set up in front of the high altar.
In the Indian villages scattered among the wild valleys of the Peruvian Andes figures of the traitor, made of pasteboard and stuffed with squibs and crackers, are hanged on gibbets before the door of the church on Easter Saturday.
Hardy said he had several pounds of gunpowder, and would sell us all squibs and crackers.
As to Quidd, he went homewards, as if nothing had happened, and soon made his reappearance, prepared for the usual squibbing and cracking, with his pockets full of squibs and crackers.
The Chinese squibsare crackers of this description.
The parcel contained as many squibs and crackers as the seller thereof would trust with his young customers; also one rocket.
Is it true that I never let off squibs and crackers in that yard?
I will have squibs or nothing," I replied, as becoming master of the house, and squibs it was.
Squibs and satires were now exchanged daily between Polisseno Fegejo (such was Goldoni's high-sounding title in the Arcadi of Rome) and my humble self, the Solitario in our modest Academy of the Granelleschi.
They try to fasten on the bull their banderillas--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached.
If they succeed, the squibs are discharged and the bull races madly about the arena.
In time, rockets, squibs and torpedoes were included in the consignment, but it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that their use became general in America.
From his month, his horns, and the end of his tail poured volumes of fire, arising, it needs not to say, from the squibshe had prepared.
Taking the squibs from his mouth, and giving one more startling yell, to quicken the fugitives, Sam made two strides to where Peter was hanging, cut the rope, and lowered him down.
The squibs and skits which he sometimes contributed to the New Orleans papers were bright, perhaps, and pleasing to his pilot associates, but they were without literary value.
Clemens and Rice were constant associates, though continually firing squibs at each other in their respective papers--a form of personal journalism much in vogue on the Comstock.
One of my squibs would not go off, and Gowing said: "Hit it on your boot, boy; it will go off then.
I gave the rest of the squibs to the little Cummings' boy to let off.
And above the noise, the bustle, the popping of squibs and crackers, came the sound of an English military band and the minute-guns of the maroons.
A knot of squibs was the first to explode, darting hither and thither wickedly, like snakes, amid the frills and flounces, amid the screams!
And paid high too, since the firework-makers were in the market for their squibs and crackers for to-morrow.
Squibs flew in all directions--too personal to be quoted here.
He was even to bring in the lampoons and squibsthat were circulated, and, if possible, to spy out the secret doings of the other party--a commission which gave him liberty to roam.
He was busy making speeches and writing political squibs for the next two years; for Parliament was before his eyes.
Then drawing from the same inexhaustible receptacle certain squibs or fireworks, he let them off and threw them into the opening.
The battle of Navarino at Mowbray fair with fourteen squibs from the admiral's ship going off at the same time, should be nothing to it.
This was about November 15th, and I continued my shower of newspaper squibs at the new company, which could not sell a dollar’s worth of its stock.
The Scots, when they saw him retreating, sent after him a number of squibs and letters of ridicule, which were speedily circulated through the English army.
His squibs of this character, quoted sometimes in metropolitan newspapers, afforded him the greatest glee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squibs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
