cordite

• Frills of glistening black rising about the girls, the cordite-shining grass Other things as strange were occurring. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
• The shot was so close that Alys was sure she felt the spatter of burning cordite, but the shot missed. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
• His face was black with cordite, except around mouth and nose where his mask had been, and under his eyes, white with deltas of tear streaks. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Bai had to say a charm to be able to walk by him, and then they were in a zone where the land itself was smoking like the dead zone of Gansu, pools of silvery gassed water reeking in water holes and the air full of smoke and dust, cordite, blood haze. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
• The air was punctuated with the smells of cordite, blood, puke, urine, and dust. —  Lisa Jackson - Shiver

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