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Several large rooms were occupied by boxes, jars, and canisters, with the apparatus necessary to the process, through which the fruit passes.
With a view to scale the guns, the governor now had each loaded, with a round shot and a case of canister.
This, of course, left the difficult task to the English of pushing up to their hand-to-hand work, under the embarrassment of receiving constant discharges of grape and canister.
One of our batteries was quietly placed within point-blank range of the Indians, and suddenly opened upon them with grape and canister.
It was intensely hot, not a breath of air stirring, and to add to our misfortunes, we had inadvertently dined off the contents of a canister of salt meat.
All at once there came the noise of a gun, and another, and of a whole battery, and many batteries, and fields and woods were alive with shells and canister.
Next day they met an Indian who brought them two canisters of powder, which they at once knew to be some of that which they had buried last autumn.
The two forward guns had been run in, and the shot having been drawn, their places were supplied with double charges of grape and canister.
The sugar we put into two large tin canisters, made to fit into one of the carts, and the tea was packed in quarter-chests.
Then, rousing himself, he put fresh tea from the canister into the cup, and poured boiling water over it from the mouth of the fantastic dragon.
The chief modifications were the use of a smaller box or canister, the margin of protection being unnecessarily large in the former type.
These precautions involved introducing a layer of filtering material into the canister or drum.
Through the open, on through the woods, with a solid step these brave men went, while the battery on their left swept their ranks with grape and canister.
An instance of this occurred on my ordering a tin canister of preserved meat to be opened for the boats' crews' dinner.
And now a milk-cart rattles briskly onward, covered with green canvas and conveying the contributions of a whole herd of cows, in large tin canisters.
Then Shard loaded his stern gun with canister instead of shot and at the same moment the Arabs charged on their camels; they came galloping down through the forest waving long lances.
Posing as members of the ground crew, they implanted small aluminum tubes, canisters, on the landing gear of three fighters.
The knot of each is then firmly sealed with red sealing-wax, and all the rolls formally deposited in a large canister placed on a small table in the middle of the room.
He emptied his plate of meat and her plate into the frying pan, likewise the roll of butter and the slice on the table, and on top he poured the contents of the coffee canister.
And the first the rebels knew of our approach was the rattling of canister among their tents.
A rusted pocket-knife lay there, and on the left breast of the skeleton rested a round piece of tin, the top of a canister, which might have reposed in a coat pocket.
It was surrounded with sand or earth, so that the effect of the blast was practically the same as though the hole were drilled in the shape of the canister.
Were it possible to drill the hole in the shape of the canister, it would obviously save a good deal of work which had to be undone.
It is also more economical than the Portland canister, in that it requires less drilling and the waste of stone is less.
A canister that is the remains of furniture and a looking-glass and a bed-room and a larger size, all the stand is shouted and what is ancient is practical.
And with that I was just going to fling the canister back in the pool when a better idea took hold on me.
After preparing several shells and receiving no word from his general he made ready several charges of canister, knowing the enemy to be close at hand.
A two gun sheet battery which had been committing great havoc on a column of infantry, was still throwing grape and canister with murderous effect.
There being two sizes of grape-shot, and one of musket-balls, we have three kinds of canister-shot calculated to reach at different distances.
The only chest that came ashore unbroken was that of Robinson the apprentice, and in it there was a canister of powder.
We then melted some snow, and supped on a little portable soup, a few canisters of which, with about twenty weight of bears oil, are our only remaining means of subsistence.
Arms and ammunition were served to the crew, and our brass cannon was loaded to the muzzle with grape and canister.
He ran forward and put an arm about her shoulders and led her to the tin oil canister on which he urged her to be seated.
Captain, my dear fellow (here the captain looked as good-natured as a turtle studying law) any way to suit your own canister!'
The light in the cabin was faint; he determined to carry the canister on deck and examine it in the sunlight.
She smelled of the canister which her father held out towards her with a nervously trembling hand.
And she took one of his hands, and, holding it open, tilted the canister over it, and let drop into it the two ear-rings, and went quickly away.
The sailors raising a shout, rushed forward, but were met by so heavy a discharge of grape and canister that for an instant they paused.
He found a quiet spot in the waiting room near the subway entrance and dug into his day pack for the pressed biscuit and the canister of water he had there.
"Why, that's written on mother's tea canister, and you read it aloud a thousand times one day," she cried.
The contents of some of the canisters he shows us include respectively, according to his account, from twenty to fifty drugs.
Shell and Shrapnel produce a greater moral effect than grape or canister, and in general a greater real injury, as the latter are generally fired at too great distances.
Shrapnel may be effectively used where the dispersion of common canister becomes too great and its effects feeble.
The roar of the shells, the hum of grape and canister, the whistle of bullets, the shouts of men, formed a mighty roar that seemed to render thinking impossible.
There was little more than a heel of very stale bread, and no butter, and only a scrape of jam; but there was a little tea in the bottom of the tea-canister, and a little coarse brown sugar in a cup.
Glass canisters with close lids are best, but as substitutes, fruit jars, jelly glasses, or tin cans will serve the purpose.
The enemy, in making this movement, exposed their left flank to Stevens' battery, which poured a terrible fire of double canister into their ranks.
For, all at once, as the wire glided on, something struck against my hand gently, and raising the other it came in contact with a large canister wrapped round and round with stout soft cord.
It was easy enough; I had but to hold the canister high up above the fire, and pass it over till it was beyond the burning ashes and then let it continue its course to the other window.
I mean I want to see if just drawing the canister over the remains of the furnace-fire would have started the fuse.
I was terribly frightened when I found the powder canister, and when I fell in the wheel-pit.
At the bottom of the canister a charge of shot had been placed, and upon trying it in a bucket the tin floated with about an inch of its top out of water.
Went the match, and as it blazed up it was applied to one stuck upright in the top of the canister.
Their own two guns, however, from being so constantly fired, had become almost worn out, and would no longer carry shot or ordinary canister.
The contents of the canisters were therefore emptied into stockings, which were rammed home with greater ease, and fired with much effect.
He turned out nearly a handful out of the common tin canister, waited till the water in the open kettle was bubbling all over, and then threw in the tea, lifted the kettle off, and stood it down.
She opened with canister, and in a few moments the troops, a part of the Chalmette regiment, surrendered.
I have a pound canister of powder untouched, and nearly half a pound more in my flask, with about five pounds of shot, and three dozen shot-cartridges of different sizes, say sixty charges in all.
The biscuit, having been carefully placed in tin canisters, was found in good condition, but several of the water-bottles had burst, in consequence, it was supposed, of frost during the winter.
About fifty shells were thrown into the town, and our boats fired four hundred round shot, besides grape and canister.
In this situation, she sustained the action upwards of two hours within canister distance, until every gun was rendered useless, and the greater part of her crew either killed or wounded.
Up this strained the guns, were planted, and opened with canister upon the swarming gray upon the other shore.
It found place a few yards above Steve in his corner, and joined in the roar of its fellows, throwing solid shot and canister.
Jackson ordered us to fire on them with canister, which we did, and very rapidly, as they passed.
The gunner of the piece nearest them had his piece loaded with canister, and fired the charge into their ranks as they crowded through a narrow opening in a stone fence.
Dashing at the enemy, he had let fly a round of grape and canister, then boarded in the smoke and confusion.
He charged the piece at once, having brought for the purpose a bamboo canister of powder, open and heaping at the end.
He had carried a canister of powder to the outside rocks, considerably back of Elaine's former shelter, together with two small bombs.
The storm of grape and canister was too great to contest the landing, which was effected next day.
In order to encourage them, I opened a fire to show the effect of our guns; and having got a good range, every ball, as well as grape and canister, rattled against and through the wood.
Cartridge and ball for the big guns, and many chests of empty brass cases, canisters of powder, and bags of all-sized shot, and the like, so that I may say the yacht is well found in that respect.
On hearing these words, Sarah emptied the flask into a jar, which she hid away, and with it the canister of powder, and then sent out Nancy with the empty flask.
I satisfied my curiosity with a few small grape and canister shot, some fragments of exploded shells, and a section of the rebel iron wire fence on the outer wall.
He also points out how the condition of the preserved meat may be guessed by the external appearance of the canister.
If the contents of the canister be sound, the top and bottom will be either quite flat, or slightly concave.
The enemy were allowed to get rather close to the battery, when the guns opened on them with canister.
A section of two pieces of Schenck's battery was now ordered up, and returned the enemy's grape and canister with twelve-pound shells.
The larger boats were armed with guns in their bows, capable of carrying shell, grape, and canister, as well as round-shot.
Our guns were up, and loaded with canister, and we had a fair supply of hand-grenades ready for use.
Grape and canister followed, the crew escaping death by flinging themselves flat on the deck.
By this time the enemy's fire was very severe, but a dose of canister at short range seemed to moderate their zeal and disturb their aim.
The men, being exposed from the feet up, could be swept away by canister, which is a quantity of small iron balls packed in a case and fired from a cannon.
Wooden canisters, such as tobacco is often stored in, make very good substitutes if small holes are bored in the side.
We lay there, with our guns loaded with canister, ready to stop an infantry charge, but it was all delivered farther to our right.
The place of the handkerchief was supplied by a small piece of sugar-candy which Desdemona was detected in the act of sucking, and which had found its way from my canisters to her fingers.
He and Kate were both up there in a strong position; and Tom's only response to our shouts was, "Throw down your arms, or we will open fire on you with grape and canister!"
You'll find some cold meat and bread on the shelf, and there's tea in the canister over the fire-place.
The volatile salt should be put into a tin canister, with two pipes like horns from the top of it, one to suck the air from, and the other to admit it.
It seems a bit horrible with our great power to begin sending grape and canister scattering amongst these slight canoes.
By the time we reached the Shenandoah Valley, he had so far developed as to be a far greater terror, to both officers and men, than Early's grape and canister.
Some had been fortunate enough to lay hands on some tins of coffee or a canister of tea, luxuries which for months had been unknown to them save when they were captured from the enemy.
It was taken off the fire, and Lucy poured some tea into it from the canister, and then proceeded to cut up the bread.
The roar of the shells, the hum of grape and canister, the whistle of bullets, the shouts of the men, formed a mighty roar that seemed to render thinking impossible.
To do any harm these darts had to score a direct hit on some living object, so that a whole canister of them was probably a less formidable weapon than a bomb.
When the boats began to drift down the stream they were running from the trenches, deserting their guns, to escape the fearful storm of grape and canister which they knew would soon sweep over them.
Already she was moving rapidly about the tiny kitchen, regulating the roaring fire that had already been started by the janitor, and getting out the canister of coffee.
I remember there was canister shot in the powder magazine, but it didn't seem all that important this morning, and we didn't have time to move it over here.
When quite dry, rub them through a hair sieve, put them in canisters or bottles, and keep them in a dry place: they will be useful for seasoning in the winter.
Probably jars, tin boxes, and canisters are provided in sufficient quantity to put away and keep stores properly.
From this point the artillery could concentrate a terrible fire of grape, canister and short-fuse shell upon any part of the opposite woods from which the enemy might make their appearance.