Sentence examples for gunpowder up from inspiring English sources

A display that fascinated the grade school set was about powder monkeys, boys 8 to 12 years old who served aboard ship and carried gunpowder up from below the deck.

Born in 1622, this gifted artist was killed in 1654 when a magazine containing at least 90,000 pounds of gunpowder blew up in the heart of Delft.

The couple's first home was destroyed when a barge full of sugar and gunpowder blew up on the nearby Regent's canal – a scene of devastation recorded in a photograph – but they moved to an even larger house, where his agent grumbled that Alma-Tadema spent too much time on interior decorating rather than painting.

The building housing the wine cellar known as "Blasen" on the corner of Vestergade and Nørregade was to be the first demolition, but this dangerous undertaking failed when the gunpowder blew up while men were still carrying in the charges.

On the island of Chios, rival parishes launch makeshift rockets at each other, while on Andros, iron pipes filled with gunpowder blow up right next to the Easter procession.

In 1856, lightning struck the church steeple of St Jean in Rhodes, blowing up gunpowder in the vaults and killing 4,000 people.

What made me act wasn't the screams or the gunshots, it was the smell of gunpowder that seeped up to the balcony.

In another extended segment a herd of crawling, milling shadows looked like live elements of one of Mr. Cai's "explosion events," made from blown-up gunpowder.

Some houses were at once blown up by gunpowder, and thus the fire was finally mastered.

He escaped and took refuge in a cave but was killed when the cave was blown up with gunpowder.

The boys told about wanting to camp there some night, smoking a reed blowing up some gunpowder from dud firecrackers, and making a breakwater so they could have their own sandy beach.