The firework display came off the following evening, and was a great success.

One description of smoke apparatus consisted of an arrangement for burning phosphorus at the stern of a ship; in other cases firework composition and other chemicals were used.

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

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

If the spectators had expected Mike to begin any firework effects with the first ball, they were disappointed.

phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny^; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy^; recalescence [Phys.].

firework, fizgig^; pyrotechnics; rocket, lighthouse &c (signal) 550.

He is the wheel of a well-couched firework, that flies out on all sides, not without scorching itself.

I am, by precious natural gift, in addition to my multifarious accomplishments something of ashall I say artist in firework?

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.

Every small alley as he passed seemed to contain a Jem Hardy, who whizzed out like a human firework in front of him, and then followed dancing on his toes a pace or two in his rear.

Every small alley as he passed seemed to contain a Jem Hardy, who whizzed out like a human firework in front of him, and then followed dancing on his toes a pace or two in his rear.

There are episodes in Summerfor example the Fourth of July firework evening, or the wildly macabre scene of the night funeral on the mountainthat seem to me to come as near perfection in their telling as anything I am ever likely to read, and when you have enjoyed them for yourself I fancy you will be inclined to join me in very sincere gratitude for work of such rare quality.

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

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.

Total result of one of these firework displays: several thousand rounds of ammunition squibbed off, hundreds of star shells wasted, and no casualties.

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.

I gave them the reasons of my doubting; the subscription was dropped, and the projectors thereby missed the mortification they would have undergone if the firework had been prepared.

I been trailin' around with this convoy for months, and never got near enough to a shell burst to tell it from a kid's firework.

Edward was the first upon the spot, ordering everything, and making his arrangements with his valet, who was to be on the other side, in company with the firework-maker, managing his exhibition of the spectacle.

There was a long silence, broken at last by a firework display of expletives.

It'll only go up with a bang and a fizz like a big firework.

" "However, we were quite equal to the preliminary task, and heartened by the news of the ammunition convoy which had been turned into a very pretty firework display by 'Soixante-dix Pau.'

The Subject is an Accident that happened under the Reign of Pope Leo, when a Firework, that had been prepared upon the Castle of St. Angelo, begun to play before its Time, being kindled by a Flash of Lightning.

As for the Bible, I never cared to read it, I was never much of a reader, though I've got through two or three firework novels and sporting stories.