"The Armstrong cannon employs only seventy-five pounds of powder for a projectile of eight hundred pounds, and the Rodman Columbiad uses only one hundred and sixty pounds of powder to send its half ton shot a distance of six miles.
"Well," replied the major, "these figures go to prove that the quantity of powder is not increased with the weight of the shot; that is to say, if a 24-pounder shot requires sixteen pounds of powder;-- in other words, if in ordinary guns we employ a quantity of powder equal to two-thirds of the weight of the projectile, this proportion is not constant.
From The Earth To The Moon
"Next day they found a wooden Saw-Horse standing by the roadside, and sprinkled it with the Powder. It came to life at once, and Jack Pumpkinhead rode the Saw-Horse to the Emerald City."
Afterward, Ozma used the last of the Powder to bring the Flying Gump to life; but as soon as it had carried her away from her enemies the Gump was taken apart, so it doesn't exist any more."
The Road to Oz
There he crushed to a powder two soluble tablets, each containing a quarter of a grain of morphia.
And then my lamps fall on another party present, who, I says to myself, is failin' in a proper affection toward his comin' son-in- law, so I watches my chance and dumps that powder in old man Riddle's coffee--see?"
The Four Million
"Perhaps the
Powder of Life couldn't either," said Ojo.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
There wasn't a word in my story about -- about -- " Anne choked a little over the word -- "baking
powder."
Anne of The Island
When we came on deck, the men had begun already to take out the arms and
powder, yo-ho-ing at their work, while the captain and Mr.
Treasure Island
Having in this way secured three new recipes, four magical
powders and a selection of herbs of wonderful power and potency, she hobbled home as fast as she could, in order to test her new sorceries.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
He drew an imaginary circle on the stones of the roof, and burnt a pinch of
powder in it, which sent up a small cloud of aromatic smoke, whereat everybody fell back and began to cross themselves and get un- comfortable.
Connecticut Yankee
Where there was no black
powder, it was curiously like a Sunday in the City, with the closed shops, the houses locked up and the blinds drawn, the desertion, and the stillness.
War Of The Worlds
And all this was seen by the tremulous light of a match attached to a barrel of
powder, that is to say, a torch which, whilst throwing a light on the dead past, showed death to come.
The Man in the Iron Mask
It happened that he had appointed to go out in this boat, either for pleasure or for fish, with two or three Moors of some distinction in that place, and for whom he had provided extraordinarily, and had, therefore, sent on board the boat overnight a larger store of provisions than ordinary; and had ordered me to get ready three fusees with
powder and shot, which were on board his ship, for that they designed some sport of fowling as well as fishing.
Robinson Crusoe
Didn't you once say that whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with
powder barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward?
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