gunpowdery

They are "gunpowdery," and when a small spark touches them they fly out, and there is a blaze.

Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees

The leather never leaves the scent- it's the grounding accord here, whether it's joined by the brief hit of white flowers as if it had met the blonde in the ladies room for a quick cigarette and to compare notes to the carnal drydown with its peppery musk and gunpowdery incense.

Archive 2007-07-01 Marina Geigert 2007

Uncle Lambert says they make him feel quite gunpowdery at lunch.

The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

My gunpowdery chief went off with a bang, of course, and then went on loading and firing until he was out of adjectives.

Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872

My gunpowdery chief went off with a bang, of course, and then went on loading and firing until he was out of adjectives.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

My gunpowdery chief went off with a bang, of course, and then went on loading and firing until he was out of adjectives.

Life on the Mississippi 1870

A PANDEMONIUM of whisperers, and reputations are torn to tatters, and evil suspicions are aroused, and scandals started, and the parliament of the family is blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as was his English predecessor of gunpowdery reputation.

The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony 1867

Oh, my friends, we will never capture this world for God by any keen saber of sarcasm, by any glittering lances of rhetoric, by any sapping and mining of profound disquisition, by any gunpowdery explosions of indignation, by sharp shootings of wit, by howitzers of mental strength made to swing shell five miles, by cavalry horses gorgeously caparisoned pawing the air.

New Tabernacle Sermons 1867

There was something appropriate in their landing on that day of gunpowdery memories, the 5th of November.

Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan 1859

-- very blue, foggy, doleful and gunpowdery, indeed, as shortly will be seen, that Israel found himself wedged in among the greatest everyday crowd which grimy London presents to the curious stranger: that hereditary crowd -- gulf-stream of humanity -- which, for continuous centuries, has never ceased pouring, like an endless shoal of herring, over London Bridge.

Israel Potter Herman Melville 1855