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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Benjamin followed, studying the coiled slow fuses, jars of oil and small barrels of gunpowder piled there.
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Not a bad way to go, in a blaze of your own gunpowder .
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The bill says nothing about requiring taggants in gunpowder , only studying them.
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The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder .
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The family fortune had been established by Evelyn's grandfather, who had acquired the monopoly of making gunpowder under the Tudors.
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The flames were now strong enough to reach the two bags of gunpowder tied to the man's neck.
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The National Rifle Association says taggants in gunpowder might act like a match struck near gasoline.
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This led him to suggest that perhaps bladders full of oxygen and gunpowder might be used to good effect in mining.