fire-cracker

At one end of the scale comes the cut-glass chatter, politeness and rippling applause of a Lord's gathering, and at the other the deafening fire-cracker celebrations of a Tendulkar century.

Forget vuvuzelas, old car parts are the sound of summer 2010

Comparing the GP to what we're going into is comparing a fire-cracker to an Atomic Bomb.

The Ugly Truth: America's Economy is Not Coming Back 2009

I remember the call that told me she had gone--this fire-cracker, survivor of a woman who had lately lost the spark that we all thought would never die.

Archive 2007-08-01 Belinda 2007

I remember the call that told me she had gone--this fire-cracker, survivor of a woman who had lately lost the spark that we all thought would never die.

Remembering Evelyn Belinda 2007

Neighbours, who earlier heard a shot, thought it was a fire-cracker going off and did not alert police.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

Well, that was what Bruce had said, and what we, in our neutrality, were reluctant to grant, because it would put a fire-cracker under Pekin's backside and Grant would have to fight all the way to the capital against an Imperial Government who'd feel (rightly) that we'd betrayed 'em to the Taipings.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Well, that was what Bruce had said, and what we, in our neutrality, were reluctant to grant, because it would put a fire-cracker under Pekin's backside and Grant would have to fight all the way to the capital against an Imperial Government who'd feel (rightly) that we'd betrayed 'em to the Taipings.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Well, that was what Bruce had said, and what we, in our neutrality, were reluctant to grant, because it would put a fire-cracker under Pekin's backside and Grant would have to fight all the way to the capital against an Imperial Government who'd feel (rightly) that we'd betrayed 'em to the Taipings.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

As if a one-day-old baby would seriously consider waking if a giant fire-cracker went off under his bed!

An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

Instead of hovering on the outskirts of its activities, like small boys surrounding a giant fire-cracker on Victoria Day -- waiting for the loud bang so freely predicted -- these gentlemen were beginning to look upon it as a safe investment.

Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse