"Firecracker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not even the firecracker Miss Alice sets off under the chair of the false count," replied the ...
— The Moving Picture Girls - First Appearances in Photo Dramas • Laura Lee Hope
... waving flame he lit the punk—a firecracker caught a spark,— Then rockets and wheels and bombs went off—no longer the place was dark! The explosions made a fearful noise, the flames leaped high and higher, The village folk awoke and cried, "The town hall is on fire!" So the strike of the fireworks ...
— The Jingle Book • Carolyn Wells
... blast beside which the most terrific flash of lightning ever seen on Earth would have seemed like a firecracker. In what was almost a vacuum though she was, the whole immense mass of the Procyon was hurled upward like the cork out of a champagne bottle. And as for what it felt like—since the five who experienced it could never describe ...
— Subspace Survivors • E. E. Smith
... was waking, so I called early; I don't know at what hour, but I've been long enough alone, so I'm glad you two young patriots came down to help me celebrate. Polly want a firecracker?" He held out a pack of small ones to Marjorie, but she ...
— Marjorie at Seacote • Carolyn Wells
... this sort have little penetrating power. If thrown in the open they go off on the surface much like a gigantic firecracker. They are easy to dodge by daylight, when you can see them coming, but thrown at night as part of a general bombardment, including shrapnel and heavy explosive shells, or exploding directly in the trench, they must be ...
— Antwerp to Gallipoli - A Year of the War on Many Fronts--and Behind Them • Arthur Ruhl
... hurt, thank you, miss. I was awfully scared when I rose out of that choking gutter, and saw you standing up, and the horses flying like ole Satan himself was after them. I am marvelous glad nothing was hurt. And now, master, sir, I want you to go to the mayor and have this 'ere firecracker business stopped. A parcel of rascally boys set a match to a whole pack and flung 'em right under Andrew Jackson's feet! Of course I couldn't manage him after that. I 'clare to gracious! it's a sin and a shame the way the boys ...
— Beulah • Augusta J. Evans
... of mischief that Fourier has done, and those well-meaning but inexperienced dreamers who have followed after him? A Fourth-of-July firecracker once consumed the half of a large city. The boy who exploded it had no evil intentions; neither did Fourier and other speculators in philanthropy contemplate what might be the effect of their doctrines on minds actuated by the lowest and most inevitable ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... cries, exclamations, bursts of laughter, a serpent-cracker turned loose, a firecracker set off—all contributed to swell the uproar. Here a bench had a leg broken off and the people fell to the ground amid the laughter of the crowd. They were visitors who had come from afar to observe and now found themselves the observed. ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal |
