It was the cow ferryman, who was taking his part in the rejoicings of the day, and letting off
fireworks.
The last item on the programme was a grand display of
fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight.
I lost some time, now, for these big children, their fears gone, became so ravished with wonder over my awe-compelling
fireworks that I had to stay there and smoke a couple of pipes out before they would let me go.
'Quite, Sammy, quite,' replied his father, 'for their appearance is wery sing'ler; besides that 'ere, I wondered to see the gen'l'm'n so formiliar with his servant; and, more than that, as they sat in the front, right behind the box, I heerd 'em laughing and saying how they'd done old
Fireworks.'
Thus, powerful
fireworks, taking their starting-point from the base and bursting outside, could, by producing a recoil, check to a certain degree the projectile's speed.
For, my dear children, you must know that it happened just then that the young emperor who ruled over the City of Simple Simons had gained a great victory over his enemy, and in celebration thereof, he had ordered illuminations,
fireworks, shows of all kinds, and, best of all, the opening of all prison doors.
With thunder and heavenly
fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses.
The boys are going to have
fireworks on the fourth, and have got some surprise for me.
She ignited her balloon while sending off
fireworks, but she did not fall, and she would not have been killed, probably, had not her car dashed against a chimney and precipitated her to the ground."
In one direction Gourville showed him the preparations which had been made for the
fireworks; in another, Moliere led him over the theater; at last, after he had visited the chapel, the salons , and the galleries, and was again going downstairs, exhausted with fatigue, Fouquet saw Aramis on the staircase.
Her brother Petya was upstairs too; with the man in attendance on him he was preparing
fireworks to let off that night.
He was a man obviously on the way towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with much gray in his bushy whiskers and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which showed to disadvantage the somewhat worn joinings of his clothes, and the air of a swaggerer, who would aim at being noticeable even at a show of
fireworks, regarding his own remarks on any other person's performance as likely to be more interesting than the performance itself.