Powder Flask

Word POWDER FLASK
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On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Neither did he neglect to possess himself of a sword and pistols, with powder-flask and balls, which hung in the apartment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: “We are soon to take the diligence for another planet”; Courfeyrac was disposing and arranging on some paving-stones which he had reserved for himself near Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small dunkerque in order. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There were two rifles, a pistol, and a powder-flask on the table; two Irish emigrant women were seated on the floor (which swarmed with black beetles and ants), undressing a screaming child; ❋ Unknown (2007)

With the money he gained by the game he sold, he might easily have bought himself a cartridge - box and powder-flask; but he never once even contemplated such a purchase, and continued to load his gun after his old fashion, exciting the admiration of all beholders by the skill with which he avoided the risks of spilling or mixing his powder and shot. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The dagger is stuck in this scarf, and a bandoleer slung over the shoulders carries the cartridge-case, powder-flask, flint and steel, priming-horn, and other necessaries. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sydney Smith humorously described “those Irish Protestants whose shutters are bullet-proof; whose dinner-table is regularly spread out with knife, fork, and cocked pistol; salt-cellar and powder-flask; who sleep in sheet-iron nightcaps; who have fought so often and so nobly before their scullery-door, and defended the parlor passage as bravely as Leonidas defended the pass of Thermopylae.” ❋ Cook, Richard B (1989)

Each man tied his powder-flask to his steel cap, held his arquebuse above his head with one hand and grasped his sword with the other. ❋ Various (N/A)

But one day he sent Jacob for a powder-flask which he had left on his dressing - table, having forgotten, through inadvertence, to lock his cupboard door or remove a spirit-bottle from his table. ❋ T.P. Wilson (N/A)

One person represents the huntsman, the other players call themselves after some part of a huntsman's belongings; for instance, one is the cap, another the horn, others the powder-flask, gun, whip, etc. ❋ Mary E. Blain (N/A)

One person represents the huntsman, the other players call themselves after some part of the huntsman's belongings; for instance, one is the cap, another the horn, others the powder-flask, gun, whip, etc. ❋ Clarence Squareman (N/A)

There seemed to be nothing handy, till he thought of a peeled potato for the lady's head and a big metal powder-flask to supply the body. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)

So, having spent our own last charge of powder, we backed away into the bow with our faces to the enemy, and the only sounds to be heard were flapping sails and rattling blocks, the groans of the poor fellow Roger had shot, and the click of a powder-flask as Falk reloaded and passed his ammunition to Kipping. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)

These were served out, and then one man found the master's gun, with a powder-flask and a handful of sparrow shot. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

Her "powder-flask" ladyship being duly rescued, her raiment smoothed, and her head readjusted on her body, the three small, healthy girls were perpetually enjoined from another such exhibition of coveting their neighbor's doll, whereupon all conceived that new diversion must be forthwith invented. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)

But we had no choice left; we must return; for our guns and Konwell's powder-flask, which the animal dragged off with him, still lay within the cavern. ❋ Charles W. Sanders (N/A)

Attached to the girdle also are a powder-flask, a small metallic box containing fat to anoint the rifle-balls, a purse of skin for carrying flints, tinder, and steel, and not unfrequently a hatchet, or knife in a sheath. ❋ John Milton Mackie (N/A)

Bar, and La Salle and Kennedy got one each; but the sport was too tedious, and La Salle, taking a bullet-bag and powder-flask from his box, proceeded to count out ten bullets, which he laid carefully before him. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)

The room is meagrely furnished, with a table on which are powder-flask, touch-box, etc., for charging guns, a stool or two, and an open keg of powder. ❋ Eugene O'Neill (1920)

The first cold streaks of dawn were just stealing into the sky the next morning when, accoutred with shot-pouch, powder-flask, and his old double-barrelled gun, Grandpa Davis made his way toward the branch. ❋ Asa Don Dickinson (1918)

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