32 examples of petards in sentences

It looks now like certain busybodies in this community had over-stepped themselves and been hoisted up by their own petard.

The Colonel is a fine man for County Judge, and we bespeak for him the suffrages of every voter who wants an honest judiciary.= Westley Keyts, reading this, wanted to know what a petard was.

The Captain had come to that point in his memoirs where the Republican representative from Knox County had set going the petard which had wrecked his political career.

V. retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate &c 148; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo &c n., give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores. serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's own garden, catch a Tartar.

[Fr.]; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur [Fr.], mitrailleuse [Fr.]; infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun^, Lancaster gun, Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun, machine gun; pompom^; ten pounder. small arms; musket, musketry, firelock^, fowling piece

And what, pathologically looked at, is the human body with all its organs, but a mere bagful of petards?

We still look after their legal safeguards long after they have hoisted them with their own petards.

Certainly, when I was there, the war-party, the party of the "Mercury," was not in the ascendant, unless in the sense of having been "hoist with its own petard" when it cried out for immediate hostilities.

Four sappers at length laid a petard beneath the gate at the other side of the bridge.

The petard had done its work.

When we had finished, it would have puzzled a colonel of engineers to make a better petard.

The petard had done its work.

She is looking on now to see us hoist by our own petard.

I sit in my chair with a petard under it that will blow me through the skylight of my lecture-room, if I do not know what I am talking about and whom I am quoting.

He was overreached by his own shrewdness; and the hitherto unlucky "bulls," who had had small cause to laugh, thought that it was "sport to see the engineer Hoist with his own petard," better even than to have tossed him on their own horns.

Hilaire and the Marechal Petard.

Hilaire and the Marechal Petard.

Was he now to be hoist for some unknown reason by his own petard?

There, after a while, the men who had their own reasons for not wishing to talk referred me to others who explained, and on the acutest understanding that no names were to be published (it is sweet to see engineers afraid of being hoist by their own petards) one got more or less at something like facts.

By this time the town was in alarm, and the drums beat to arms, but it was too late, for by the help of a petard we broke open the gate, and entered the town.

She was now hoist with her own petard, for, being heavily made up, she could not and would not follow the leader.

PETARD, a cone-shaped explosive machine for bursting open gates, barriers, &c., made of iron and filled with powder and ball.

The soldiers on' the counter yawn audibly from time to time; and the sergeant, who is naturally of an impatient disposition, exclaims, for the twentieth time, with an inexhaustible variety, however, in the choice of expletives: "Mais; nom de deux cent mille petards!

It drew the attention of one of Cromwell's generals, and he dispatched a party with cannon and petards to reduce the place, whilst he marched on to join Cromwell in enterprises of more importance.

The men went at it hammer and tongs, and in twenty-four hours a good many cannon-balls traversed the building, a great many stuck in the walls like plums in a Christmas pudding, the doors were blown in with petards, and the principal defenders, with a few wounded Roundheads, were carried off to Cromwell himself; whilst the house itself was fired, and blazed away merrily.

32 examples of  petards  in sentences