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Guess I'm too heavy for you to tote into the canister.
Amid a storm of grape, canister and leaden balls, the battery was taken and victory won.
She glanced at the canister on the mantelpiece and said to herself: "I really must clean that canister to-morrow."
A thousand pounds of dynamite, in sealed canisters, was placed about some workings.
Not even a canister had lodged in her spars, or torn her sails.
The canister is then closed by a lid, and afterward securely fastened down by the top of the chest.
The powder was kept in leaden canisters, and these, when empty, were used for making balls for muskets and rifles.
Two of my gunners had been hurt by bursting canister.
The man obeyed and handed Bismarck a canister full of chicory.
It was now possible to work on general lines for the improvement of this canister to increase its protective range, and to modify the canister specifically in accordance with intelligence as to what the enemy had recently done or was about to do.
Then the druggist began his canister to praise very highly.
A large canister of tea had been emptied on the ground, a similar canister, more than half full of sugar, lay on its side, so that its contents were still good, the lids of both canisters having been carried off.
There were no tin canisters and grape-shot in the American army, even the round shot were exhausted.
My escort fought deployed in the woods on both sides, but Thurston remained in the center of the road, which at intervals of a few seconds was swept by gusts of grape and canister that tore the air wide open as they passed.
This change was occasionally the more pleasant to us, from the circumstance of the preserved meats, on which we principally lived, being generally at this time hard frozen when taken out of the canisters.
He hastened to gather his papers, the log, a chronometer, and a large canister of tobacco.
At the conclusion of the feast, Willis took a pinch of snuff out of a canister.
Pieces of cane of large diameter, and old gunpowder canisters, sewn up in hide, make useful powder-flasks.
The canister was made of two curved pieces of sheet tin with soldered edges, cloth or paper being used at the ends.
On cooling, the yellow powder is ready for use, and is stored in straight canisters or made up into cartridges.
A small sifter in basket shape will be found good for cake-making, and a larger one for bread; and spices can be most conveniently kept in a spice-caster, which is a stand holding six or eight small labeled canisters.
Slowly and cautiously the canister was replaced; the requisite powder was carefully measured and inserted, and after many an examination had been made, Edmund declared that everything was in readiness for the wheels to be set in motion.
In a cairn of this sort at Canister an iron knife was found.
He came to the canister, and the owl was hollering for all he was worth, and the matter fell out like this.
On the mantel stood a row of blackened corn-cob pipes and a canister of tobacco.
Grape shot and canister were pouring through our portholes like leaden hail.
Then again came a minute or so of impressive stillness, while the crews of both looked around to learn the results of the awful tempest of round shot, grape and canister of which they had been the targets.
It was a small tin case or canister, of oblong shape, and measured some four inches by two.
The lid was lightly soldered, and the canister remarkably heavy.
Her father seized the coffee canister and approached the stove.
Finally, he went to a closet, rummaging in it until he found a tin canister.
When she took the canister from her acolyte, only the two studs remained in it.
A couple of elastic metal bands fastened the canister to the chest of the wearer.
Chloe had, before starting, put all the provisions in the house into it, and it contained three loaves, five or six pounds of bacon, a canister of tea, loaf-sugar, a small kettle, and two pint mugs, besides a number of odds and ends.
Its canister shot contained jagged pieces of iron, broken bolts, and nails.
"Canisters of water and some emergency rations!"
They came safe, but box rather smashed; cylindrical old cocoa- or snuff-canister much safer.
I had hold of a large canister of gunpowder, and the soft cord wrapped around it was prepared fuse.
I had forgotten the lantern, but I turned it on now as I tucked the canister beneath my arm.
After hailing, a brisk fire was opened on us both by small arms and large guns; but the latter could not be brought to bear, owing to our being so close, and we partially disturbed the aim of the former by a dose of canister at close range.
The gunboats fired upwards of four hundred round shot, besides grape and canister, with good effect.
His guns ceased with their canister and limbering up thundered away toward the sun, now low and red in the heavens.
The enemy dared not show themselves for the fire of the grape and canister, and nothing could have been easier; but my proposition caused a commotion which it is difficult to forget, and more difficult to describe.
Even in these, in consequence of the irregularity of the bore, the canisters could not be driven home.
It is then placed in tin canisters and soldered up.
As our Brigade re-formed in the rear of the batteries, treble charges of canister swept the woods of the Rebel ranks.
Canister from Morton's guns laid a scythe along the Union advance, cutting men to ground level.
Charles put the pepper in the canister, his mother took care of the horseradish.
The minute air-hole in the canister is soldered down when the process is completed.
If either the top or bottom of the canister be convex, like the upper surface of a watch-glass, the contents are in a state of decomposition; the bulging being occasioned by the gases generated during the chemical changes.
The enemy hotly replied with grape and canister, sweeping the road, but doing no damage.
The bayonet is usually more effective than grape, canister, or bullets.
It is also the name given to highly cooked meat in hermetically sealed tin canisters.
Pound and thoroughly mix, and keep in stoppered bottles or canisters.
The spare ammunition is no small matter; every cannon having a supply of round shot, shell, canister, and grape: all these may be needed by each piece in a battle, as the shot used depends upon the distance of the foe.
Musket-bullets, grape-shot, and canister poured in a murderous fire upon the advancing boats.
There, plied with grape and canister from every direction, they were brought to the point of surrender.
Behold the effigy of a powder canister, with the words 'Royal Baking Powder' thereon.
His first intention, an advance in two columns, the heavy ships leading and closely engaging the forts with grape and canister, while the two-gun vessels slipped through between the columns, met the tactical demands of the proposed operation.
The sight of so many rebel heels made it a very easy thing to be brave, and the Union troops pressed on, utterly regardless of the grape and canister which to the last moment the enemy flung behind him.
Chloe had before starting put all the provisions in the house into it, and it contained three loaves, five or six pounds of bacon, a canister of tea and loaf-sugar, a small kettle, and two pint mugs, besides a number of odds and ends.
A few discharges of canister soon rid us of these troublesome assailants.
His gunners load with grape and canister.
The storm of canister caused them to waver a little, but that was all.
Swiftly picking up the second canister, while bullets whined by, he cast it down after the first.
It was a little stainless-steel aerosol canister that looked for all the world like a pepper-spray self-defense unit.
See that my small powder-canister, with bullets, is with them in the holsters.
My left at one time fell back toward the battery, which then poured charge after charge of canister into the rebel ranks, with considerable effect, forcing them to retreat, rapidly followed by the cavalry.
The flour was gone, but the tea, which had been in a canister, was unspoiled.
Coming under fire for the first time, a man usually feels as if he were about as large as a good-sized barn, and consequently very likely to take in all the balls, shells, grape, and canister, and such odds and ends, coming in his direction.
By this means, a few rounds of grape, canister, and shrapnel, could have cleared the roof of the convent.
In the meantime the enemy had placed a part of a battery in position that began to rake our line with canister.
The hail of shot, shell, canister, grape, and Minnie balls were not only unheeded but seemed unheard.
Now, however, the grape and canister shot of the enemy began its work of destruction, and in constantly increasing rapidity of succession sank the victims in their blood, until finally the weakened survivors gave ground and slowly retreated.
Big, plump canisters plummeted from the bellies of the planes.
Here is may allude to the canisters which make great show in the general store of a petty shopkeeper.
The unsuspecting soldiers were riddled with solid shot, canister, and rifle-balls.
The gunners at the batteries were quick to respond, and sent grape and canister across the stream.
Solid shot, shells, canister, and shrapnel are thrown towards the hollow, but without avail.
A battery opened fire on them, but the distance was too great for canister, and the saucy rebels only laughed at shell.
Next let the canister be touched with the finger, the leaves collapse, but diverge again when the ball is withdrawn.
If before the ball is withdrawn, after touching the outside of the canister with the finger, the ball is tilted over to make it touch the inside of the canister, then on withdrawing it the canister and ball are found to be perfectly discharged.
If, before withdrawing the ball, after touching the outside of the canister for a moment the ball is touched against the inside of the canister, then on withdrawing it the ball and canister are found to be discharged.
It is far more humane to mow down the insurgents with grape and canister.
Charges of grape and canister raked and swept the decks.
When the cook turned to put her canister in its place, Lottie went to the closet and brought out two cups and saucers.
Everything was destroyed except the gunpowder; that was all in canisters.
He appeared much annoyed, therefore I presented him with a pound canister of powder, a box of caps, and a few bullets.
If a snow fort was to be stormed the snow-balls were dipped in water and were as hard as canister.
Each of these contained four tin canisters of snuff of the best growth, and of the finest manufacture.
A good, rough bulls-eye lantern, to aid in spearing, can be made from a disused salmon canister.
At the close of the action, his deck was found to be literally covered with grape and canister, ready for close quarters; but he had never used a single charge of all this during the contest, although within capital range for employing it.
I took another white canister from the counter top, and we stepped from the cubicle.
Instantly at sight of them the nearest battery commander whirls his muzzles around to deluge them with canister.
On the other hand, from the adjacent heights the artillery mowed us down with their canister.
The whining of the grape and shrapnel and canister united in one ferocious note.
The air was filled with shells, shot, grape, shrapnel, canister and every form of deadly missile.
Grape and canister mow a swath and pile the dead on top of each other.
The sins of our dear, old fathers are still so comparatively recent, in regard to slavery, that I am absolutely afraid to fire canister and grape, among the group of offenders, lest I should disturb the ashes of my ancestors.
They came safe, but box rather smashed; cylindrical old cocoa-or snuff-canister much safer.