Sentence examples for gunpowder around from inspiring English sources

The blast has left a cloud of gunpowder around the hole, a wispy, painterly effect.

The barrel is etched with a user's manual in Chinese and Manchu, explaining how to aim at 45-degree angles and pack pounds of gunpowder around the cannonballs.

Ridley's brother, in a gesture of mercy, was allowed to hang bags of gunpowder around their necks, so that it would be over when the flames reached that high.

An autopsy done on May 6 for the coroner's office by pathologist David M. Katsuyama made no comment about traces of gunpowder around the wound, said Stark.

A state ballistics expert testified that a lack of gunpowder residue around a bullet entry hole on Chapman's sweatshirt indicated that the shots had not been fired from "close range" but said she could not be more specific about the likely distance.

We learn, for instance, that it was considered a special favor and mercy to supply a heretic, about to be set alight, with a bag of gunpowder to tie around his neck so that he would die from the explosion before he died from the flames.

Looks like the traditional gunpowder "thunder stick" will be around for a long time like it or not.

Before gunpowder, weapons were designed around the limits of their users' muscular strength; after gunpowder, they were designed more in response to tactical demand.

Never smoke around any gunpowder or light up.

This View of Delft depicts the town on the morning of Monday October 12, 1654, the day Delft's magazine, which contained around 90,000lb of gunpowder, exploded.

If, on the other hand, the ceteris paribus clause of the speaker also kept constant the fact that Tom is generally paranoid about explosions around barrels of gunpowder and fuses, and would only light the fuse if he had disconnected the fuse from the barrel, then the counterfactual would, in that context, be false (1980, 116).