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en Just as Europeans had taken advantage of their early lead in gunpowder weapons to support a wave of world conquest, they ushered out the age of gunpowder with a second and more comprehensive program of colonial domination,

en The new synthetics, in a remarkably short time, displaced gunpowder from its 900-year-old niche as the world's only effective propellant, ... By the 1890s nations across Europe were rushing to switch to the improved powder.

en fumes were of gunpowder or some kind of chemical.

en The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
  Thomas Carlyle

en What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
  Wendell Phillips

en Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade
  Philip James Bailey

en We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
  Andre Maurois

en What was gunpowder? Trivial. What was electricity? Meaningless. The atomic bomb is the Second Coming in wrath.
  Winston Churchill

en The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing
  Jonathan Swift

en We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
  André Maurois

en The three great elements of modern civilization: Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion
  Thomas Carlyle

en The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing
  Jonathan Swift

en Although this evidence was evaluated by the jury and appellate courts, new technology is available for testing gunpowder residue.

en The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air
  William Gilmore Simms

en I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like. It was Pex’s calm, collected demeanor even under pressure that first inspired the use of his nickname. I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
  Alfred Hitchcock


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