blasting-powder

Suppose a charge of blasting-powder had to be exploded in

Pillars of Society 2008

Suppose a charge of blasting-powder had to be exploded in

Pillars of Society 2008

They commenced with extinguishing a serious fire which burst from the waste-room — by no means pleasant when close to kegs of blasting-powder carefully sewn up in canvas.

The Land of Midian 2003

They went to work on it with pick and shovel, then with drill and blasting-powder.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

[It is stated that rain may be brought down by the explosion of dynamite and blasting-powder attached to oxyhydrogen balloons and kite-tails.]

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891 Various

McMullin's horse-shed, before the diuretic effect of tin flavored with blasting-powder could be observed by the attentive eye of science.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 Various

To get an idea into your head, one wants a proper outfit -- drills, blasting-powder, and so on.

The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

It can begin only when persuasion ends, when arguments fitted to move minds are replaced by the blasting-powder fitted to move rocks and hills.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

If a body desires to talk private business with one of the editors, he must call him outside, for no hint milder than blasting-powder or nitroglycerin would be likely to move the bores out of listening-distance.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

And even then only dynamite or blasting-powder could have forced a path, and it would have been exceedingly difficult to handle such materials within the tunnel without blocking the approach completely, while leaving open the farther exit.

Jacqueline of Golden River H. M. Egbert 1919