Making the slow-match slower, to let it travel that far, is easy enough. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (2005)
As the battle entered its fourth hour, around 10:15 P.M., Hamilton edged out along the footropes of the mainyard carrying a lighted slow-match and a leather bucket of grenades. ❋ 9781451603996 (2003)
Under the berths in the cabin was a sliding box, forming a small locker, and in this locker Uncle Prudent put the dynamite and the slow-match. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was mixed with small, sharp stones and, above it, balanced on a stave that Rifleman Hagman had carefully nailed into place, was a coiled strip of burning slow-match. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2003)
Match tubs were readied, half filled with water and capped with a pierced lid through which a slow-match hung in case a flintlock should break. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2000)
One or two persons had now ventured to return to the battery; and, seizing a slow-match standing by one of the guns, discharged the piece, when the ❋ Abner Stocking (N/A)
Before leaving its precincts they had sprinkled coal oil over every square metre of carpet, window-hangings and tapestries, and the slow-match was not long in passing the fire to its inflammable timber. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)
Didn't I say you couldn't play with even a slow-match like Roman, if you didn't want a fire later on? ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)
You've got no slow-match to play with this time, let me tell you; you've got a regular sleeping volcano like some of them he was born near; and it won't do, I warn you. ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)
I say wild hearts and passionate lives, because I think I can look through this seeming calmness of youth and this apparent feebleness of organization, and see that Nature, whom it is very hard to cheat, is only waiting as the sapper waits in his mine, knowing that all is in readiness and the slow-match burning quietly down to the powder. ❋ Various (N/A)
While endeavouring to fire the charge, Salkeld, being shot through the leg and arm, handed the slow-match to Corporal Burgess, who fell mortally wounded, but not until he had successfully performed his task. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
The hammers have slits in them as if to hold flints, but which really are intended for the slow-match. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
The gunner blew his slow-match into a glow and pressed it into the slit in the hammer, placed the pistol handle to his hip and pulled the trigger, which brought the hammer slowly forward until the slow-match rested on the powder in the pan, when the gun went off and the pigeon fell dead. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
The bowl of either kind is so tiny that it will only hold a pinch or two of very fine tobacco, which three or four whiffs consume, when it has to be refilled and lighted from a slow-match held ready in the hand until the smokeress has smoked enough. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
No cut wads are used, but pieces of paper, rammed home with a rod, which instead of being carried attached to the gun is held in the hand together with the slow-match. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
Another of his ideas to which he had set a slow-match before he left on his Hassler trip, had fired while he was gone and was now busily burning while it waited fuel from him. ❋ Unknown (1939)
But hard beside the cannon stood Sir Richard, watching keen-eyed, and ever and anon blowing on the slow-match he had made, waiting until the stairway was choked with the glittering helmets and tossing feathers of the assailants. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Soon the powder magazine blew up, having been left by the French with a lighted slow-match attached for the purpose, the barracks caught fire, and Ticonderoga, which had held out so well against British and Provincial assaults, was at last laid low. ❋ Over, Frederick A (1904)
