Example Sentences

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Look yere, Leftenant, what's the use o' you bein' so gunpowdery with me?

From Miss Lou by Roe, Edward Payson

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

From Life and Conduct by Lees, J. Cameron

The vera air o' this room is gunpowdery," thought the elder; "and ane or the other will be flinging a spark o' passion into it, and then the de'il will be to pay.

From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.

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

From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

“I can imagine it seems dull now that your Dutch friends are gone,” she began, in a crisp, gunpowdery way which was more than a declaration of war.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram