Sentence examples for slow matches from inspiring English sources

Though he is notorious for slow matches, Nadal finished off his sixth-seeded compatriot and friend in only an hour and 46 minutes.

He was carrying a lantern now held in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and a search of his person revealed a pocket watch, several slow matches and touchwood.

Believing that war was as much a science as an art, his explanations focused on triangulation, arithmetic, theoretical mathematics, and cartography as well as practical considerations such as the ideal specification for gunpowder or slow matches.

What had been a very slow match could now be speeding up.

Slow match found immediate acceptance among artillerists and remained a standard part of the gunner's kit for the next four centuries.

But interest rates, no need for slow matching, flexibility for withdrawing money and dealing with a centralized party could attract users to Compound.

The fruit of the slow match tree is a favorite.

While inquiring about treasure the prisoner replied that it had been long expended, but that 3,000 lbs of powder were under their feet to which a slow match had been attached.

Fawkes had taken up his station late on the previous night, armed with a slow match and a watch given to him by Percy "becaus he should knowe howe the time went away".

If the resolution of the image is higher or the image size is larger, more feature points will be generated, which result in slower matching.

"The courts are slow, the matches are long, the season is tough.