eprouvette

Feeling strange as well, for his recent experience had led him to fear that the mere existence of the Henry repeating rifle or the eprouvette mortar made all talk of spirit immediately antique.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Right quick Haskell called up his eprouvette mortars and put them just beyond the lip of the crater and had them loaded with a scant ounce and a half of powder, since all they had to do was loft the shells fifty feet to where the Federals milled about like a pen of shoats waiting for the hammer between the eyes.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

Feeling strange as well, for his recent experience had led him to fear that the mere existence of the Henry repeating rifle or the eprouvette mortar made all talk of spirit immediately antique.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

Right quick Haskell called up his eprouvette mortars and put them just beyond the lip of the crater and had them loaded with a scant ounce and a half of powder, since all they had to do was loft the shells fifty feet to where the Federals milled about like a pen of shoats waiting for the hammer between the eyes.

Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

At this sad sight the assembled Cardinals became as pale as death, and a solemn silence reigned in the 'conclave' -- it was the moment of the 'eprouvette negative'; but the 'maitre a'hotel' suddenly turns to one of the attendants, Bring another turbot, 'said he, with the most perfect coolness.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Delight was on every face -- it was the moment of the 'eprouvette positive'.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

And when a snob came to poison the air, how exquisitely one could annihilate him with showing him his ignorance of claret; and when an epicure dined, how delightfully, as one carried in a turbot, one could test him with the eprouvette positive, or crush him by the eprouvette negative.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

Delight was on every face -- it was the moment of the 'eprouvette positive'.

The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

At this sad sight the assembled Cardinals became as pale as death, and a solemn silence reigned in the 'conclave' -- it was the moment of the 'eprouvette negative'; but the 'maitre a'hotel' suddenly turns to one of the attendants, Bring another turbot, 'said he, with the most perfect coolness.

The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

Delight was on every face -- it was the moment of the 'eprouvette positive'.

Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 06 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801