Black Powder Charge

Famous quotes containing the words black, powder and/or charge:

    “All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven
    ‘Tis gone.
    Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Yet I would bear my shortcomings
    With meet tranquility,
    But for the charge that blessed things
    I’d liefer not have be.
    O, doth a bird deprived of wings
    Go earth-bound wilfully!”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)