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.