The court astrologers had predicted that the palace of the emperor was this year to suffer by fire, on which account, a solemnity, accompanied by splendid fireworks and illuminations, was exhibited during seven days.

Besides, wot about 'is mother?' "One o' them silly gals went off agin just like a damp firework, and Mr. Watson, arter nearly choking 'imself with temper, shoved me out

Homemade fireworks, by Louis Charles Smith, and others.

Thálassa!" Another of those horrible, red mornings, with a brass circle of horizon flaming all around in the most extraordinary fireworks topped by an azure zenith, found them still crawling south-westwards making perhaps a mile an hour.

Before we had the news of this defeat, the two Doctors Bond came to me with a subscription paper for raising money to defray the expense of a grand firework, which it was intended to exhibit at a rejoicing on receipt of the news of our taking Fort Duquesne.

Captain Knox describes the scene as a display of "the grandest fireworks that can possibly be conceived."

But in the hands of the Chinese themselves the invention of gunpowder has exploded in crackers and harmless fireworks.

but all in vain; the dogs were evidently insensible to rhetorical fireworks of this description, and manifested their indifference by a still slower gait.

It is unreal splendour; for the most part mere intellectual fireworks.

If anyone should ever write a treatise on the art of murdernot an exhibition of literary fireworks like De Quincey's, but a genuine working treatisehe might leave all other technical details to take care of themselves if he could describe some really practicable plan for disposing of the body.

"Just a little fireworks, as a send-off, Major," said he, notching the speed ahead, ever ahead, till a whipping gale began to beat in at the broken pane.

I then had heard Of your green groves, [M] and wilderness of lamps Dimming the stars, and fireworks magical, And gorgeous ladies, under splendid domes, Floating in dance, or warbling high in air 125 The songs of spirits!

About ten o'clock the same evening the most magnificent firework perhaps in the world begins to play from the castle of St Angelo.

It is unreal splendour; for the most part mere intellectual fireworks.

Is it not as if one should have, through majestic powers of science, the comets given into his hand, or the planets and their moons, and should draw them from their orbits to glare with the municipal fireworks on a holiday night, and advertise in all towns, "Very superior pyrotechny this evening"?

It was not a staunch animal, so we put one of our men in the howdah, with a plentiful supply of bombs, a kind of native firework, enclosed in a clay case, which burns like a huge squib, and sets fire to the jungle.

The grand climax of the Deutschland joy carnival was to be a magnificent banquet with plenty of that rare luxury, bread and butter, at the famous Bremen Rathaus accompanied by both oratorical and pyrotechnical fireworks.

Have they not kilt all the half-crown officers and left nothing but the shillin' ones?"] Guy Fawkes Day has come and gone without fireworks, pursuant to the Defence of the Realm Act.

but all in vain; the dogs were evidently insensible to rhetorical fireworks of this description, and manifested their indifference by a still slower gait.

Then there would come a quick succession of reports like the discharge of artillery, followed by a shower of fiery flakes and sparks blown aloft, like the explosion of some stupendous firework.

Then comes the general exit and the superior fireworks.

Yet even January had its alleviations in the return of the banana, the prospect of unlimited lard, a distinct improvement in the manners of the retail tradesman, the typographical fireworks of the Times in honour of President Wilson, and the retreat of Lord Northcliffe to the sunny south.

The Candid Courtship (LANE) is a story full of good talk; by which I do not at all mean brilliant epigram and verbal fireworks, but direct and genuine conversation, just so far manipulated by the author that it advances the business in hand without becoming artificial.

All went well until one night when friend Fritz changed his habits and put some assorted fireworks rather near the mules.

And your friend Bierstadt has a Western sceneall fireworks!