22 Verbs to Use for the Word firework

By means of his spies, Pacheco got notice of the construction of these floating castles, and likewise that the enemy were preparing certain fireworks to set the caravels on fire.

tone"that there Noaks and Hogson are coming up here to-night just afore nine o'clock, and they're a-going to drown your fireworks.

"You can keep the change," I said, "and buy fireworks with it.

Mr. Blake sent for Noaks, and a rather sharp passage of arms took place between them, which ended in the man's being told to leave what he was doing and carry the fireworks down to the shed.

"You wouldn't deny them their fireworks, would you, sir?" "That shows who is top dog," said another.

How do they know we've got any fireworks?

Now whom did you hear say that?" Josephine was wont to declare that the Admirable Crichton lived again in that kaleidoscopic creature; but he was so dazzling, so bewildering, so dangerous, that to converse with him was like having fireworks in one's boudoir.

He has no written sermons; a few notes are sufficient for him; he does not believe in long discourses; he has an idea that it is better to say a little and let it be well understood than float into immensity, let off fireworks there, and dumfounder everybody.

Some are hoping for a bloody battle, because a bloody battle makes a vendible narrative; some are composing songs of victory; some planning arches of triumph; and some are mixing fireworks for the celebration of a peace.

That was the way of his time; and when he needed fireworks for his son's wedding (he made them himself, too), he sent around to all the old cloisters and cathedral churches for the old parchments they had.

URBAN, Among the principal topicks of conversation which now furnish the places of assembly with amusement, may be justly numbered the fireworks, which are advancing, by such slow degrees, and with such costly preparation.

I am sorry that Parliament has been so impolite to you in procrastinating the fireworks.

Accordingly they resolved to have a public celebration all to themselves,a pocket-edition of the cumbrous civic work,and as the city provided fireworks in the evening, in order to be beforehand with it in their pyrotechnics, they gave Mr. Choate in the forenoon.

The French, who up to that time had only been accustomed to the illuminations of St. John's Day and of the first Sunday in Lent, received those fireworks with great enthusiasm, and they soon became a regular part of the programme for public festivals (Fig. 176).

Chinese boys love to set off fireworks, such as crackers, wheels, and rockets.

Everybody made a speech and Jack has not stopped yet shooting off fireworks in honor of that Englishwoman.

" "The last time I saw you," returned Jack, in rather a bitter tone, "was when you came to spoil our fireworks, and we collared you in the shed.

Those concerned, however, will probably never forget Diggory's bursting into the room as they sat finishing supper, and striking every one dumb with amazement by saying to Mr. Blake, "Please, sir, some fellows are stealing our fireworks, and I've locked them up in the shed."

His plan, I believe, was to time the fireworks simultaneously with a French-instigated raid from El-Kerak.

"D'you remember," remarked the former, "how, that night we caught the Philistines bagging our fireworks, you said, 'Well, I should think now we've just about finished with young Noaks'?" "Did I?" answered Jack, shrugging his shoulders.

"All you did was to touch the fireworks off.

Devore and Doyle made a double steal and that began the fireworks.

22 Verbs to Use for the Word  firework