Black Powder Charge

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

    “The wings of Time are black and white,
    Pied with morning and with night.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)

    “One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)