Thesaurus / wadding
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He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGFortunately, I had in my pocket a bit of waste paper, which I had used instead of wadding in loading my gun.
TRAVELS IN PERU, ON THE COAST, IN THE SIERRA, ACROSS THE CORDILLERAS AND THE ANDES, INTO THE PRIMEVAL FORESTSJ. J. VON TSCHUDIOne of the cannoneers, who was strongly opposed to him, expressed the wish that he might be struck by some of the wadding.
THOMAS JEFFERSONEDWARD S. ELLIS ET. AL.And though shot and bullets were forbidden fruit, yet something might be done with hard wadding.
THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, VOL. 1 (2 VOLS)THOMAS DE QUINCEYEven wadding, however, was declared to be inadmissible as too dangerous, after wounds had been inflicted more than once.
THE POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF THOMAS DE QUINCEY, VOL. 1 (2 VOLS)THOMAS DE QUINCEYOrdinary cotton wool is useless, from being dusty and the fibres short, and the same remark applies to wadding.
ON LABORATORY ARTSRICHARD THRELFALLI also inclose a piece of blackened paper, evidently the wadding of the gun—also a bullet which we found imbedded in the wall.
BY FORCE OF IMPULSEHARRY V. VOGTHe opened his suit-case, took out from the protecting wadding a small iron death-machine and held it in readiness.
THE CUP OF FURYRUPERT HUGHESAnother incident which touchingly illustrates the absolute poverty in which the Saint died is recorded by Wadding.
SAINT BONAVENTUREREV. FR. LAURENCE COSTELLOE, O.F.M.Such figures require especially careful fitting and the hollow place should be filled out with wadding.
TEXTILES AND CLOTHINGKATE HEINTZ WATSONWORDS RELATED TO WADDING
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