"powder" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- On seeing this, Marian takes him aside and asks him to tell Eve that the ledger is located in a powder barrel.
- A spark of flame had been set to the powder barrel of lurking suspicion.
- They had to be powder barrels, for Sharpe could see pale lengths of fuses coming from their stoppered bungholes.
- The whole northern side of the tunnel was crammed with the powder barrels.
- The fire was self-inflicted in that part of a recently stored delivery of 300 powder barrels on the lower gun deck exploded.
- "The government knows this is a powder barrel that could explode at any moment, and it is finally going to do the right thing by us."
- In another room of the monastery holding an equal number of powder barrels, insurgents made the same gesture.
- The building smouldered and, beneath their feet, the powder barrels waited that could blow them into fine scraps.
- Sharpe's riflemen give him cover fire as he attempts to light the fuse on the powder barrels.
- They rolled one of the powder barrels to the door, and Scott wrestled it over the doorsill as Seamus went back for another.
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