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Experiments there made on the oxy-muriate of potash, on fire-balls, on hollow-balls, on ring-balls, &c. Great works begun for extracting from the soil of France every thing that serves for the construction, equipment, and supplies of ships of war.
They begin to move nervously on their chairs. Their brows lower and eyes flash, until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, sit with set jaws, and compressed lips, and clenched fists, and eyes like fire-balls that seem starting from their sockets, to see the final turn before it comes; if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unuttered oaths cast back red-hot upon the heart or, winning, with hysteric laugh "Ha!
The Russians from time to time lit up the works with fire-balls and carcasses, evidently fearing a sudden night attack. During the day a great council of war was held; and as orders were sent to the surgeons to send all the patients in the hospital down to Balaklava, and to prepare for the reception of wounded, it was known that the attack would take place next day.
Quintus Cicero, who commanded there, had with his weak corps a difficult position, especially as the besiegers, learning from the foe, constructed ramparts and trenches, -testudines- and moveable towers after the Roman fashion, and showered fire-balls and burning spears over the straw-covered huts of the camp.
Sometimes they are nearer, and look like great fire-balls." "Have you seen them." "Yes, a great many." "And have you seen them after they fell on the ground?" "Yes." "What are they like then?" "A very black stone, on the outside, and made up of various metals and earths within." "But then, what makes them look like fire-balls, before they fall?" "Can't tell, Daisy.
Maybe the boys nowadays do not throw fire-balls, or know about them. They were made of cotton rags wound tight and sewed, and then soaked in turpentine. When a ball was lighted a boy caught it quickly up, and threw it, and it made a splendid streaming blaze through the air, and a thrilling whir as it flew.
Sometimes, the mice depositing a dead fish in the crannies of the rocks, Lucifer appears with it in the twilight, gleaming silver-white in his jaws, and the great eyes gleaming like fire-balls above it. Phosphor is, however, a mighty hunter: mice, rats by the score, chipmunks, all is game that comes to his net.
The whole of the amusement consisted in tossing the fire-balls with boldness, and in avoiding them with dexterity, something like competition soon entering into the business of the scene. The effect was singularly beautiful.
It would be a race, in any case. Sarka divided his attention between the rapidly changing formations of the Moon-cubes in that devasted area and the onrushing charge of the fire-balls from Mars.
Workmen, too, were set to search and dig everywhere for "Tewkesbury mustard-balls," as they were called or fire-balls, with which it was thought that the Catholics would set London a-fire, as Oates had said they would or vast treasures which the Jesuits were thought to have buried in the Savoy and other places.
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