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We may be detected, and may have to dive, and all sorts of things. No, Dillon, it would not do. But if you can get the petards, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done your share of the work; and then you might, if you could, ride round in the evening with my uniform and Hugh's in your valise.
"He is a chemist, and being an Anarchist, came to us, and joined us in the Revolution. The petards thrown over the barricades to-day were of his make, but he had to fly. He left yesterday." "For Paris?" "Ah! how can I tell? The Cossacks may have caught and killed him. He may be dead," she added hoarsely. "Which direction has he taken?" "He was compelled to leave hurriedly at midnight.
Nigel Graheme's company was one of those which marched forward on the 6th of November, and entering the town, which was almost deserted by its inhabitants, set to work to prepare it for defence. Ramparts of earth and stockades were hastily thrown up, and the gates were backed by piles of rubbish to prevent them being blown in by petards.
Slings, bases, sakers, port-pieces, and fowlers belonged to this class. III. Perriers, from 6 to 8 caliber, firing stone-balls, shells, fire-balls, etc. IV. Mortars, of 1.5 caliber, including petards and murderers. The "great ordnance," or cannon, were muzzle-loading.
One or two excerpts from these instructions for street fighting follow: "The particular force for street fighting is infantry, provided with automatic weapons and hand grenades. Members of the detachments should be instructed that automatic weapons must always be used in preference. Essential arms are: sub-machine guns, rifles including hunting rifles, hand grenades, revolvers, petards."
They have, presumably, plenty of powder, probably some live shells, petards, and what-not, that will make short work even of those oaken doors. What do you propose to do?" "I propose," said Jack, "to fill their crooked stairway with cement. There are bags and bags of it in the armory." The necessity for this was prevented by an odd circumstance.
Although professionally accustomed to consider the possibilities of permutation, the known fact that petards at times are retroactive did not present itself to his mind.
How Californians make their money and how they spend it is a topic which in handling requires great subtlety of intellect, a fine delicacy of expression and much diplomacy, otherwise twenty-three petards! Here is a passage from Henry George's lecture before the University of California: For the study of political economy you need no special knowledge, no extensive library, no costly laboratory.
Whatever may have been their precise aims, they were certainly known to Napoleon and his police. Napoleon revelled in the details of his plan for hoisting the engineers with their own petards. But he knew full well that the plot, when fully ripe, would yield far more than the capture of a few Chouans. He must wait until Moreau was implicated.
The next day at two o'clock, Lieutenant Dillon, who had been away for an hour, beckoned to Rupert that he wanted to speak to him apart. "I have seen my cousin Gerald, but he will not let me have the petards unless he knows for what purpose they are to be used.
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