giant-powder

You'd better take a couple of sticks of my giant-powder along.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

Under the circumstances it seemed like a wise precaution and we took his giant-powder, as he had suggested.

Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico

He can put more giant-powder into the English language without actually breaking any commandments than anybody I ever heard.

Mrs. Red Pepper 1912

They were cheerful optimists; indomitable grapplers with forest and flood, who did almost incredible things with ax and saw and giant-powder.

Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

Carroll struck for a few more minutes, and then flung down the hammer and inserted the giant-powder into the holes sunk in the stone.

Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

The mining speculators he called upon received him coldly, and although he had a warmer welcome from the manufacturers of giant-powder and rock-boring machines, they demanded prompt payment for their goods.

The Lure of the North Harold Bindloss 1905

The sledge carried an unusually heavy load, and among the provision bags he noted some iron drills and a small wooden box such as giant-powder is packed in.

The Lure of the North Harold Bindloss 1905

When Vane began to swing a hammer above a drill, or from whom he got it, he did not know, any more than he remembered when he had torn off and thrown away his jacket although the sticks of giant-powder which had been in his pocket lay near him upon the stone.

Vane of the Timberlands Harold Bindloss 1905

Then there was a good deal of very genuine excitement to be got out of placer-mining in British Columbia, especially when there was frost in the ranges, and you had to thaw out your giant-powder.

Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905

Show him good wheat land lying vacant or rocks that block a railroad, and he won't rest till he starts the gang-plow or gets to work with giant-powder.

The Girl from Keller's Harold Bindloss 1905