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Once struck, the flame from the cap in turn ignited the main charge of gunpowder, as with the flintlock, but there was no longer any need to charge the touch hole with gunpowder, and even better, the touch hole was no longer exposed to the elements.
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Once all were in position, print hammers struck the wheels against a ribbon and the paper.
On March 18, 1882, Morgan Earp was killed by a shot that struck his spine while playing billiards at 10: 00 p. m. Once again, the assailants were named but escaped arrest.
Once their advance had halted, with the perfect timing of old, he struck.
Once the Infødsretten, immediately north of the Holsteen, struck its colours at about 2: 30pm, he moved on to the Tre Kroner fortress.
" Once, describing a player who had struck out, Dean said, " he nonchalantly walks back to the dugout in disgust.
Once Helen and Ananias found out, they were struck by great fear of the possible consequences, but as Josephus put it, God looked after Izates.
Once dry, they were struck repeatedly with a mallet to leave them completely smooth.
Once the Shu troops had begun to show signs of fatigue, Lu Xun, after several months of inactivity, suddenly struck, first tricking the Shu commanders with a mock attack on one of their camps, then ordering his troops to move forward with torches and set fire to all the other camps of Liu Bei's army.
Once this wrongly overlapping strip is struck by the punch it will produce a blank which has a curved part missing which will still remain after the coin is struck.
Once wearing the ring and raising his fist, the ring is struck by flashes of lightning ( referred to as the Thunder of Zeus in several episodes ).
Once the tradition had come to be looked on as old-fashioned, the allegorical nudes and theatrically posed figures struck some viewers as bizarre and dreamlike.
Once, on picketing duty outside Maltby colliery he was struck on the head by a police baton.
Once the full fury of the Russian winter struck, which was the coldest in over 50 years, the German armies quickly became unable to conduct further combat operations, with more casualties occurring due to the cold weather than from battle.
" Once I struck a few in the middle of the bat, and I spent some time in the middle I tried to relax and enjoy it, just savour the moment.
Once the beachheads were joined up, its troops struck west and isolated the Cotentin Peninsula, and then captured Cherbourg.
Once the rim of the cartridge has been struck and the bullet discharged, the cartridge cannot be reloaded, because the head has been deformed by the firing pin impact.
Once at sea, the ship is struck by a tempest, the crew conclude that they are being punished by God for abducting Tristan, so they set him ashore in a country that turns out to be Cornwall.
Once again, Saracen's winter malaise struck, and after inconsistent performances, Diamond took over the coaching duties from Kafer.
Once Helen and Ananias found out, they were struck by great fear of the possible consequences, but as Josephus put it, God looked after Izates.
Once struck by a Koba-claw, a victim falls into a near-death coma for two to three days, but awakens with no permanent damage.
Once, during the 1964 season, he was struck in the mouth by a bad throw during the first game of a doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers.
His cousin's daughter Lucy Landor recalled " Once only I recall his visiting my father and he then struck me as the most wonderful and delightful talker I ever heard.
Once the underwriting agreement is struck, the underwriter bears the risk of being unable to sell the underlying securities, and the cost of holding them on its books until such time in the future that they may be favorably sold.
Once and flame
Once vaporized, the fuel combines with oxygen in the atmosphere to form a flame.
Once the ember is in the tinder bundle it is then carefully nurtured and coaxed into flame.
Once the tinder bundle bursts into flame, it is then placed into the fire lay.
Once lit, the heat from the burner maintains the pressure in the tank until the flame is extinguished.
Once at the black lake at the forest's center, the Samurai Lord doused an arrow into the oil he was given, lit it with a green flame, and shot it into the lake.
Once the shawarma is made, it might be dipped in the fat dripping from the skewer and then briefly seared against the flame.
Once ignited, safety fuses will burn underwater, and have no external flame that might ignite methane or other fuels such as might be found in mines or other industrial environments.
Once the fuel has warmed up, its vapor will travel up the hollow wall, pass through the perforations, and form a ring of flame.
Once ready to begin, the lampworker slowly introduces glass rod or tubing into the flame to prevent cracking from thermal shock.
Once the battle is underway, he immolates a rush of foot soldiers with a wall of flame, and attacks another rush with large, random spouts of fire.
Once an ember in the tinder is lit, it is transferred to a larger tinder such as a bundle of dried grass and then blown gently until a flame is created.
Once they have hardened, they are heated in flame for half a second to create a shiny finish and to remove imperfections.
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Once more he lifted Jess's gun from its holster, only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin.
Once the poetic arts are separated from the other forms, he lays down his famous definition of tragedy, which sets up standards and so lends direction to the remainder of the work.
Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.
Once there had been big glittering rooms where Ulanys bowed and kissed the ladies' hands as they flirted from behind their fans.
Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.
Once the soldiers from the barracks had to hold the ship from blowing away while Fogg revved the engine and got the tail up.
`` Once, when the editor was just out of the hospital from a gallstone operation, Mrs. Calhoun and the mother of the bride went out to his house and fought it out beside his bed.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Once this was over, a massive development cooperation in the field of health and education brought in numerous civil personnel from Cuba.
Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).
Once the anchor is hauled up to the hawsepipe, the ring end is hoisted up to the end of a timber projecting from the bow known as the cathead.
Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.
Once the tip penetrates the animal the upper sub head broke off from the rest of the shaft, however, since it was still connected with the braided loop it rotated the head into a horizontal position inside the animal ’ s body so that it could not get away from the hunter.
Once when she is, in a key scene, finally invited by the male members of the country club she gives a toast citing from the song “ With rue my heart is laden ”.
Once this condition is met, it is sufficient that local bonding at the specimen surface is capable of being overcome by the field, allowing for evaporation of an atom from the surface to which it is otherwise bonded.
Once players have mastered these basic strokes, they can hit the shuttlecock from and to any part of the court, powerfully and softly as required.
Once it has come to rest, the jack is aligned to the centre of the rink and the players take turns to roll their bowls from the mat towards the jack and thereby build up the " head ".
Once he had established himself as sole ruler of the Roman state in 30 BC, Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son Augustus inaugurated a strategy of advancing the empire's southeastern European border to the line of the Danube from the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and Macedonia.
Once, when his younger son Leonid fell seriously ill, Zinaida extracted a promise from her husband, as they stood by the boy's sickbed, that he would end his affair with Olga Ivinskaya.
Once the proposal is accepted by both the creditors and the Court, the debtor makes the payments to the Proposal Administrator each month ( or as otherwise stipulated in their proposal ), and the general creditors are prevented from taking any further legal or collection action.
Bixby also hosted Once Upon A Classic on PBS from 1976 to 1980.
Once again, we see the imagery of the marriage: " I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
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