"Canister" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tin canister, which he had been warming in a pot of hot water, and the steam of fresh ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes
... they fired on their own; Like reeds in the whirl of the cyclone columns and colors went down. Banner of stars on the right! Hurrah! gallant Gibbon is come! Thunder of guns on the left! Hurrah! 'tis our cannon that boom! Solid-shot, grape-shot and canister crash like the cracking of doom. Baffled, bewildered and broken the ranks of the enemy yield; Panic-struck, routed and shattered they fly from the fate of the field. Hold them? We held them at bay, as a bear holds the hounds on his track; ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... powers; and the crowd rushed out, and scattered over the hill to see its practice. A sheet was attached to the opposite face of the ravine, the valley rang to the roar of the guns; and as the white cloth flew in shreds to the wind, under a rapid discharge of round shot, canister, and grape, amid the crumbling of the rock, and the rush of falling stones, shouts of admiration rang from hill to hill. This eventful evening was closed by testimonies of the king's satisfaction, in the shape of a huge pepper pie from the royal kitchen, with his commands that his ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various
... lithe figure down into one of the easy-chairs with a sigh of satisfaction, while Diana set the kettle on the fire to boil, and produced from the depths of a cupboard a canister of tea and a tin of ...
— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler
... to you by last post, enclosing a buffooning letter for publication, addressed to the buffoon R——ts, who has thought proper to tie a canister to his own tail. It was written off-hand, and in the midst of circumstances not very favourable to facetiousness, so that there may, perhaps, be more bitterness than enough for that sort of small acid punch:—you will ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
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