Sentence examples for gunpowder from from inspiring English sources

"These people inhaled a lot of gunpowder from guns and bombs during the war," he said.

The same cannot be said of Yasmeen Godder's "Strawberry Cream and Gunpowder," from 2004.

Mongol armies learned about gunpowder from the Chinese and carried it with them for use in sieges wherever they went.

Their bombs were concocted from inexpensive everyday items whose purchase set off no alarms: pressure cookers, nails and ball bearings, gunpowder from fireworks and remote controls for toys.

Theodoros Kolokotronis, a leader in the War of Independence (1821-32), attributed his victories to a constant supply of gunpowder from Dimitsana's mills.

The eventual collapse of the Silk Road happened because the Ottoman took gunpowder from the Chinese and found this way of making it.

All other charges were derived from them by removing small gunpowder bags from the charge cartridge.

From Kingston-upon-Thames heading north-west to Hatton Cross you get a good eight-mile section with lost traces of royal parks, avenues planted by Christopher Wren and James I and deer herds started by Henry VIII, then the strange Shot Tower, a gunpowder mill from 1766, which has great views from the top of its 87 steps.

The second, less interesting part of the exhibition recreates the feel of the old Raffles Museum with its cabinets of curiosities; its Southeast Asian ethnographic collection, such as a finely carved wooden gunpowder flask from the Batak people, an indigenous tribe from north Sumatra; and natural history specimens.

Madras and Gujarat supplied cotton goods, and Gujarat supplied indigo as well; silk, sugar, and saltpetre (for gunpowder) came from Bengal, while there was a spice trade along the Malabar Coast from 1615 on a competitive basis with the Dutch and Portuguese.

Then they light a trail of gunpowder leading from a keg, just like in the old westerns.