This desperate wretch, previously aware of his danger, and determined never to expiate his crimes in the hands of justice, had posted one of his banditti, with a lighted match, over his powder-magazine, to blow up his vessel in the last extremity.

One young gentleman sitting close to the blackboard cried, "Powder, sir!"

"Then put up your goal-posts, and mark your touch-line; We'll grind them to powder, and put them in brine.

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Upon going into the cellar which had been left open on one side, we found two kegs of powder together with a fuse secreted there.

He laid his strong, set face against the rosy cheek, and looked into the laughing eyes which the sand man had already sprinkled with his magic powder.

Theywe, tooare like a lot of powder-cans.

Peetka was hammering a fragment of it into powder, with his heavy clasp-knife, on the concave stone.

"Some of 'em load up an old shot-gun with a little charge o' powder and a quarter of an ounce of gold-dust on top, fire that into the prospect hole a dozen times or so, and then take a sucker out to pan the stuff.

Immediately after the affair at Lexington he had turned out his company, reinforced by undergraduates from Yale, had seized the New Haven powder magazine and marched over to Cambridge, where the Massachusetts Committeemen took such a fancy to him that they made him a colonel on the spot, with full authority to raise men for an immediate attack on Ticonderoga.

The skipper of the schooner containing the powder magazine wanted to surrender on the spot, especially when he heard that the Americans were getting some hot shot ready for him.

After throwing all its powder into the St Lawrence it surrendered on the 19th, the very day Carleton reached Quebec.

The results showed that the easiest and most satisfactory way was to take 100 grains (this amount being preferred, as it reduces error to the minimum), dry thoroughly, powder finely, and macerate with frequent agitation for twenty-four hours in a few ounces of spirit, then to boil in this spirit for a short time, filter, and repeat the boiling with a fresh ounce or so; this, as a rule, sufficing to completely exhaust it of its resin.

The soja leaves, which contain little starch, but a great deal of oil and casein, are boiled, mixed with roasted barley, and then with the greenish yellow conidia powder of the Aspergillus.

The precipitates thus formed are in the state of an impalpable powder, and in the original Clark process many hours were required for their subsidence in large settling tanks, which had to be in duplicate in order to permit of continuous working.

Her luggage was a model of compactness: it consisted of a sleeping-bag, a notebook, half a dozen pencilsand a powder-puff.

She was standing beside the car, which we had left in the middle of the road because the bullets were flying too thickly to turn it around, dabbing at her nose with a powder-puff which she had left in the tonneau and then critically examining the effect in a pocket-mirror.

Loring has an idea of his own which may or may not be worth the powder it will take to explode it.

For, just as the boat was leaving the dock, a spark fell into the powder magazine on board the man-of-war.

Dressed up for it like a hunter in one of these powder advertisements.

She had tried to cool her face with powder; I saw the traces on her left temple.

"One time the Yankees come and drunk the sweet milk and took all the butter, turkeys and hogs and then broke the powder horn against the maple tree.

Bring the powder-bag and prepare the fuse.

cried the voice which had commanded the powder-flask and the treethe voice I now knew to be that of Duke Otho himself.

As the girl said this she felt a powder-like flash from her own eyes.