Sentence examples for cordite from from inspiring English sources

Nanna's testimonies sample this time period very thoroughly, such as in her recollections of meeting my grandfather at the Labour League of Youth or of coming out of a cinema in Loughton and smelling cordite from a bomb that had dropped just up the street.

Cordite from a magazine ignited and the ensuing fireball passed rapidly through the ship's internal spaces.

The real shame is that Mr. To's high points -- his run of cordite classics from "The Heroic Trio" (1992) to "The Mission" (1999) -- have been so shamelessly pilfered that he should hire the same lawyers that old-school rhythm-and-blues stars put to work when their licks are sampled by younger hip-hop artists.

This action prevented the tons of cordite stored there from catastrophically detonating in an explosion that would have destroyed the vessel and all aboard her.

Writing with all senses on high alert, Jennings creates a flawless approximation of a typical day in the life of all the girls who worked on weapons assembly lines, their skin yellow and their hair orange from the cordite.

Apart from the cordite handling, the battle was mostly inconclusive, though both the British flagship Lion and Seydlitz were severely damaged.

By 1917, HM Factory Gretna was producing 800 tonnes of cordite a week – more than from all the other plants combined.

Doherty is free from the whiff of cordite that swirls around many of the Sinn Féin candidates north and south of the Irish border.

Adams is beholden to multiple constituencies, and for some faction of supporters his charisma has always derived, at least in part, from the whiff of cordite.

However the cordite charges which had fallen down from gun house after the hit were not removed to safety, and there were still ready charges in the working chamber.

"I mean it has a special smell, over and above the smell of cyanide, carrion, blood, cordite or burnt flesh," he continues, reading this excerpt from his novel "Cities of the Red Night" as the camera studies a face that suggests the stone bust of a patrician zombie.