Powder Plot

In those solemn old days, the recurrence of the powder-plot anniversary, with its processions, hideous images of the Pope and Guy Fawkes, its liberal potations of strong waters, and its blazing bonfires reddening the wild November hills, must have been looked forward to with no slight degree of pleasure. ❋ John Greenleaf Whittier (1849)

Let the powder-plot be as bad as it will or can, yet still there is as much difference between the king's murder and that, as there is between an action and an attempt. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

I say, let the powder-plot be looked upon, as indeed it is, the product of hell, as black as the souls and principles that hatched it; yet still this reformation-murder will preponderate, and January always have the precedency of November. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Let the powder-plot be as bad as it will, yet still there is as much difference between that and the king's murder, as between an action and an attempt: what bulls and anathemas could not do, seditious sermons have brought about. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

'Right, right,' said Sir Richard, 'and I will look to points which can be made defensible; and the old powder-plot boys could not have made a more desperate resistance than we shall. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

He of - fered to raise forces in hjs favour, c and is even said to have sup - plied that King with money. d The agent of these negotiations was Thomas Percy, who was afterwards concerned in the Gun - powder-plot, but who was at that time so acceptable to Kino - ❋ Unknown (1812)

‘Right, right,’ said Sir Richard, ‘and I will look to points which can be made defensible; and the old powder-plot boys could not have made a more desperate resistance than we shall. ❋ Unknown (2008)