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The principle, Michelis recalled with gray irrelevancy, had emerged out of d'Averoigne's first "Petard" paper, the count's only venture into applied math, published when he was seventeen.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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The principle, Michelis recalled with gray irrelevancy, had emerged out of d'Averoigne's first "Petard" paper, the count's only venture into applied math, published when he was seventeen.
A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953
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Bark Bark Woof Woof: Who Ordered the Petard? skip to main | skip to sidebar
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Petard Hoist – Taken from a phrase by Shakespeare.
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I think the story was "The Procrustean Petard" (from 1978) but it's been years since I've read those books.
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All of us love the Glorious Failures of this world and Farmer Paul Barkes of Thorpe Farm Country Park and Falconry Centre in the Yorkshire Dales will take his inclusion in that gallant company in the spirit with which this post is intended, it being a Tribute to the Hoist With Your Own Petard Club.
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All of us love the Glorious Failures of this world and Farmer Paul Barkes of Thorpe Farm Country Park and Falconry Centre in the Yorkshire Dales will take his inclusion in that gallant company in the spirit with which this post is intended, it being a Tribute to the Hoist With Your Own Petard Club.
Archive 2007-08-05 2007
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I wish Speaker Pelosi would hoist Cheney with his own Petard by demanding a special prosecutor who would investigate torture no matter where it leads.
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Hoisted on one's own Petard means being a bittoo close o the charge when it goes off. e.g gettin caught in ones own blast
"Nearly 100 wealthy families and power couples contributed at least $100,000 each to help Barack Obama over the past two years." Ann Althouse 2009
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Dems to be Hoisted on Hillary's Petard by Ed Encho on Wednesday, Feb 6, 2008 at 5: 26: 08 PM
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