英语词汇“petard”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Agravaine, exulting in his cold mind, thought: “Hoist with his own petard!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's reckless!' the solver has to regard 'see' as exploding as well as 'petard', a clearly meaningless concept. Azed slip No. 2,126 2013-03-25T10:24:00Z

In short, the director gets them to hoist themselves on their own petard. The Queen of Versailles: How the Biggest House in America Became a Brokedown Palace 2012-07-19T12:00:40Z

For instance, I told myself, we continued to say, “He was hoisted by his own petard,” long after anybody actually knew what a petard looked like. When ‘All Thumbs’ Becomes a Compliment 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

These postmodernists are being hoisted by their own petard by a student who hasn't even read the majority of the works he's stealing from. 'Death of the Author' finds life in academic theory 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s just one in a handful of canny symbols in Greenfield’s new feature, a telling encapsulation of the mentality shared by her subjects as they hoist themselves by their own petards. 'She's an unreliable narrator': Lauren Greenfield on her Imelda Marcos documentary 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

They, in turn, are hoisted on the petard of hypocrisy or, at the very least, fallibility, in a sequence of face-offs that leaves no one in peace. Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Many a cocktail has been hoist on the petard of its own casual plurality,” as cocktail writer Charles H Baker once wrote. How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

She’s hoisting herself more on her own petard more than most perhaps. Scott Westerfeld on writing his novel-within-a-YA-novel 'Afterworlds' 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

Once at the top, the puppet is slid back down across a valley on a rope, petards hanging below its feet exploding at intervals, while crowds cheer below. Remote Croatian island marks victory over pirates with Carnival cheer 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

The turnabout — in which he is hoisted by his own petard — is squirmy but not as resonant as it would like to be. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Review: A Dare Makes an Intimate Party Too Intimate 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

It's the Coyote-Roadrunner relationship, with the schemer hoisted repeatedly on his own petard â€” another Saturday morning tradition. 'T.U.F.F. Puppy' and 'Planet Sheen,' premiering Saturday on Nickelodeon 2010-10-01T23:24:00Z

I didn’t merely get hoisted by my own petard—my petard fell on me and shattered my skull. Goodnight, sweet print 2013-05-12T19:00:00Z

There's a legal piece to this whether you want to try to hold me up on a petard. Tribune interview with Rahm Emanuel 2012-02-12T13:12:00Z

This is not the only case of an “enginer hoist with his own petard,” as Shakespeare would put it; this becomes something of a motif in the novel. Inside the Mind of an Islamic Extremist 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

On the other hand, I was happily hoist by my own obsessive petard by a passing reference to a “dirty martini.” Opinion | ‘Perry Mason’ looks like a million bucks. But its dialogue isn’t as seamless. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

A political party hoisted, as the saying goes, on its own petard. Kari Lake's doomed legal battle: The holiday grift that keeps on giving 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

But she was hoisted by her own homophonous petard. What ‘your’ vs. ‘you’re’ says about Congress right now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The words “hoist” and “petard” come to mind. Perspective | The problem with fruit juice: All that sugar 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Despite that controversy, the FTC's choice to hoist Facebook by its own petard makes sense. Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg’s emails 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

He was “owning the libs” — hoisting them, as his supporters saw it, on their own petard of priggish propriety. Opinion | Goodbye Principled Conservatism 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

“But we’re actually a little bit, ah, hoist by our own petard, here,” said the second one. That time we borked causality 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z

“Blast in Beirut might also be result of what is described as a Hezbollah work accident. The French might say hoisted on their own petard.” Opinion | As Beirut mourns, our failed leadership looks for someone to punish. I say they must all go. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

But let us not shed tears for Sessions, for whom the phrase "hoisted by his own petard" may as well have been invented. Jeff Sessions' downfall: The wages of loyalty to Donald Trump is public humiliation 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

It is a case of being hoisted by his own petard. Opinion | This may sound like Trump’s wackiest conspiracy theory. But it’s actually true. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

But its most dramatic spectacle might be the sight of a facile, lazy enterprise being hoist on its own cynical petard. Review | Controversial thriller ‘The Hunt’ is finally in theaters. Don’t waste your time. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

“In the end it is her animosity, frenetic, irrational and baseless actions against this president that will ultimately hoist her on her own petard,” she continued. Judge Jeanine: Public humiliation of 'Pelosi and her Democrat caucus' is 'an embarrassment to watch' 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the handful of Democratic presidential candidates still clinging to variations of hope and change face off Thursday at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles after barely dodging a close encounter with their own petards. Opinion | Spoiler alert: Trump is probably going to win in 2020 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Democrats could be hoisted by their own petard. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

It’s ironic that after all the wrong things President Trump has done and said, a single word may be enough to hoist him with his own petard. Opinion | The fallout of Trump’s ‘favor’ 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

For now we’re stuck with it — hoisted, it seems, by our own liberal petard. Seattle a model of democracy? Big money is swamping our elections like never before. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Mr Coates summed it up as "a classic example of somebody being hoist on their own petard, basically". Five quotes that sum up the Trudeau crisis 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Has Sarri been hoist by the petard of such a fantastic start to the season, which even saw Chelsea being breathlessly suggested as title contenders in those early weeks? Chelsea v Manchester City: Carabao Cup final – live! 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

“Out of loyalty to the new president and his desire to be part of the administration, he hoisted himself upon his own petard,” they wrote. Papadopoulos: Trump 'nodded' at suggestion of Putin meeting 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

“He’s being hoisted by his own petard,” said Ned Price, a former National Security Council official under President Barack Obama. Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

It's good to see overzealous federal prosecutors hoist by their own petard. Justice Department Dismisses Corruption Case Against Menendez 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

One acts as a petard, blasting through a wall to grant access to the others. Military robots are getting smaller and more capable 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

President Trump seems to live atop his own petard. Analysis | No matter what he does, history says Trump will never be popular 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

But now, having campaigned for six years on “repeal and replace,” Republicans find themselves hoist by their own petard. The Republican healthcare plan has a formidable foe: economics | Joe McLean 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

“If Trump finds himself hoisted on the 100-day test, it is a petard that he erected for himself.” Trump Wants It Known: Grading 100 Days Is ‘Ridiculous’ (but His Were the Best) 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Still, there’s a certain grim satisfaction in watching a man who deliberately blurs the lines between his business and high office being hoist by his own petard. Memo to Melania and Ivanka Trump: beware brand fatigue | Gaby Hinsliff 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Corbett is hoist upon the petard of his very own words. A V.I.P. Nets Package Offered Free to The Times 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Analysts agree that the government was hoist with its own petard. New television channels in Ethiopia may threaten state control 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

Like Shakespeare’s engineer, he will have been hoist with his own petard. Has Rudy Giuliani Been Done in by His Own Buck-Raking? 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

A clear case of being hoisted on your own petard, I'd say. Putting the Polling Miss of the 2016 Election in Perspective 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In failing to meet the legal threshold, Mr. Orban’s government found itself hoisted by its own petard. Hungary Votes Against Migrants, but Too Few to Clear Threshold 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

And again his ad problem is the same as his debate problem: Her ads predominately just replay his own words; in both cases he was hoist on his own petard. Advantage Clinton 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

The Democrats are trying their best to deflect from Hillary’s multiple problems and scandals by attempting to skewer Mr. Trump on his national security petard. Donald Trump’s no traitor, but left deflects Hillary Clinton’s treason 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Prime Minister David Cameron is off, hoist on his own petard. Britain’s Referendum Was Not a Triumph of Democracy 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

A “petard” is, according to Google, a small French bomb used to destroy flimsy structures. Roy Hodgson’s sickly imitation of old values leads to England’s uber-loss | Barney Ronay 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

But they are not the first criminals to be hoist by their own petard - as the following cases illustrate. 13 of the world's most stupid criminals - BBC News 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

It’s now clear that Senator Cruz has been hoisted by his own petard. Ted Cruz's favorite temperature data just got a lot hotter | Dana Nuccitelli 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Trump should explain himself – let him hoist himself on his own petard. This Joke's Not Funny Anymore 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

And if that can happen, if the now ex-most powerful leader in football can be hoisted with his own petard, then perhaps there's hope for the future of FIFA, after all? Column: Sepp Blatter ban from FIFA may, just may, offer hope of cleaner future for football 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

And if that can happen, if the now ex-most powerful leader in football can be hoisted with his own petard, then perhaps there’s hope for the future of FIFA, after all? Column: Sepp Blatter, hoisted by his own petard at FIFA 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

“They were kind of hoisted on their own petard.” As VW Pushed to Be No. 1, Ambitions Fueled a Scandal 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

There are also two citations that quietly hoist Scalia and his fellow dissenters, Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas, with their own petards. The Supreme Court Decides: A Conversation 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Nothing like seeing one of sports’ premier franchises brought down a few notches, hoist by its own petard. SNYDER: Roger Goodell trying to avoid embarrassment in Tom Brady appeal 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

With no easy way to push weak candidates from the race, Republicans are being hoist by their own gilded petard. For the GOP, ‘one man, one vote’ becomes ‘one billionaire, one ballot’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

He was hoisted by his own absurd petard. The Fed Knew the Economy Was a Disaster in 2009. Here’s What They Talked About Instead. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Second half - Murray fumbles on a certain TD Play, Bryant's catch is ruled not a catch, Cows Defensive Coaches allow Rodgers plenty of time in 2nd half -- Cows hoisted on their own petard. Aaron Rodgers, Playing Hurt, Helps Packers Top Cowboys 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

But to that, the court essentially responds that OPR is hoist by its own petard. OPR's Power Continues to Ebb 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Hoist by my own petard, it would seem. Marijuana’s addictive risk shouldn't be ignored

OK, so Bullock made Miss Congeniality 2 and DiCaprio seems to be in something of a loop playing brooding upward climbers hoisted on their own sybaritic petards. Five Things The Forbes Celebrity 100 Says About Hollywood Star Power 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

It’s not that there are suddenly more sexist CEOs, it’s that they’re being hoisted more often by their own petards. The Days of the Chief Executive Bro Are Numbered 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

After being hoisted innumerable times by the petard of sloppily worded memos from low-level drones, GM management instructed its employees to write precisely about product-safety issues. GM's Attempt To Snuff Out Smoking-Gun Memos Breeds Its Own Smoking-Gun Memo 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

The new sharia-based argument against the driving ban wrests this moral high ground and hoists the guardians on their own petard. Have Saudi Women Traded Civil Rights for Driving Rights? 2013-10-30T09:45:52Z

I’m being hoisted on my own petard here. Is Software Quality Going To Hell In A Shopping Basket? 2013-07-22T06:00:00Z

Buchanan, recognising the apparent lack of clout that Wright had had, recommended that the new coach should be given considerably more power and as a result was hoisted on his own petard. New Zealand cricket riven by intrigue ahead of England Test series 2013-03-03T14:03:50Z

“Chávez is like Santa Claus,” goes one of the most popular anti-Chávez petards sweeping the web. Is Chávez Really in Venezuela? 2013-02-20T09:45:00Z

And, to some extent, we are hoisted on our own petard—vulnerable to this condition of advancing age because we are better at living longer than ever before. Mind Your Body 2013-02-08T13:33:00Z

He lived via the Internet, and he’s about to find out what it means to be hoisted on his own petard. Manti Teo hoax has more culprits than victims 2013-01-23T20:28:49Z

Chávez may be hoist by his own petard, however. Which Cancer Is Chávez Fighting? 2012-12-11T09:45:00Z

You’ve got to give Rivard a modicum of credit for one thing: He’s petard to spare and he knows how to hoist himself by it. Roger Rivard, rape apologist 2012-10-11T15:54:00Z

However the suspicion after an action-packed first day at the old Racecourse is that against Essex, they may be hoist by their own petard. David Masters and Graham Napier of Essex combine to exploit Derbyshire 2012-08-28T23:17:25Z

We were full seven hundred short, and then the petard went off too soon, and did no good, but brought the whole town upon us. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z

Although the U99 had disposed of her cargo of mines without mishap--several of the German submarines having been "hoist with their own petards"--her efforts had not met with marked success. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z

The King, who was at Coventry, had sent to Digby, demanding a petard. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z

I and my friends set out in the 'Kitty McQuaire' to run down the 'Marigold,' and we've been hoist on our own petard--as the saying goes. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z

I had anticipated an affair with men only--a secret assault or a petard expedition. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z

For what Jacobite, seeing the enemy hoist with his own petard could avoid a snigger? Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z

Ludwig was found dead in the hall, slain on the spot by the explosion of the petard which had driven in the door. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z

Odd though it may appear, a petard was to Digby a thing unknown—"a word which he could not understand." Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z

They were all to charge together the instant after the petard had done its work. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z

They stared in silence, for their breath was gone at his audacity: but one horrid laugh exploded on the floor like a petard. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z

I remember quite well putting boxes of fire-crackers in a tin pail to frighten the horses, and throwing numerous little petards under people's feet, but no one seemed to mind. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z

War was being hoist by its own petard. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z

Rupert, at once, got out of bed to search the arsenal; but no such thing as a petard was to be found. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z

Who proved himself at length a witch, And made a rod for his own breech’— the engineer hoist with his own petard—happily a by no means infrequent mode of retribution. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z

In "The Jew" his thwarted lust for gold drives him through a series of villanous triumphs over difficulties until he is melodramatically hoist with his own petard. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z

Poor Alexandre, the lover of all women and none in particular, was hoisted with his own petard. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z

This woman was "hoisted on her own petard," being sent to the penitentiary, instead of Elsie. Octavia The Octoroon 2011-09-26T02:00:30.547Z

Rupert, following the petard, found his uncle at Leicester Abbey, and there formally took over charge of the cavalry, which then consisted of only eight hundred horse. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z

Small dynamite shells from Mackenzie's pneumatic gun had struck the car of the balloon, and by the firing of half a ton of explosives the enemy was in an instant hoist with his own petard. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z

"There you cannot go, and so I tell you once for all, unless you have brought petards with you under your coats of mail." 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z

"He tried, your highness; but the Swedes seized the petards and wounded him slightly, and Sapyeha's men were repulsed." The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z

"You're hoist by your own petard when you put yourself on a pedestal and the whole thing falls apart." Scandal threatens Shalala's ambitions at UMiami 2011-08-27T14:53:09Z

Not until April did Trevor wring two petards from Lord Percy, "and now I have got them, I do not, for my life, know how to send them to your quarters," he declared. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z

"Hoist with her own petard!" he muttered to himself in great satisfaction. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z

Noise was not wanting, for petards exploded with unpleasant frequency; and as the salvoes died out there was constantly arising the peculiar dull subdued roar of the thronging multitude in ecstasy at the unwonted sight. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z

"Colonel," said he to Volodyovski, "we are to explode a petard." The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z

“But now we have a situation where the integrity of the economy and the U.S. financial system is at stake, and they’re being hoisted on their own petards.” After Aiding Republicans, Business Groups Press Them on Debt Ceiling 2011-07-27T03:56:59Z

The Story of Wonder Wendi Yet there he was seated before the M.P.s, fumbling and halting and forgetting, perhaps sensing that he was being hoisted on his own petard. Rupert Murdoch as Citizen 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z

Why could he not enlist his unwieldy gifthorse among Derby candidates and so hoist the Duchess on the pinnacle of her own petard? A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z

Well, it seems to me that I am in a position to hoist these people with their own petard. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z

Saint had just begun to realise, also, that he was hoist with his own petard. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z

"Perhaps Stigler's latest move to 'run me off my feet' may be the petard which will hoist him off his own; at any rate, as regards his five-and-ten-cent venture." Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z

But what satisfaction sweeter than hoisting the enemy with his own petard? Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z

Usually it was a white-haired man, once it was a woman, lean, energetic, stern, who had lost one eye through the explosion of a dynamite petard. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z

I was about to get hoisted for the second time on my own 140-character petard. Twitter, the CNN anchor and me: A cautionary tale ( ...I'm the villain) 2011-03-21T19:02:04Z

Now here we were, hoist by our own petard. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z

But posterity has been just: in his anger, he overcharged his weapon, it recoiled, and the engineer has been "hoisted by his own petard." The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z

This child doesn't want to be hoist with his own petard. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z

And was it true that they had a special technique for burning down whole towns at once, with kerosene pumps and dynamite petards? Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z

The petard was a kind of bomb employed for blowing open gates, etc. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z

Now truly were they hoist of their own petard. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z

Serve them out in their own coin; as it were hoisting the priest on his own petard!” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z

The Franc-Taupin took in his hands the redoubtable petard, examined the structure of the door minutely, and after a moment's reflection inserted the iron box with no little difficulty under the lower hinge. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z

A few sections of the wall were still standing, its thick solidity resisting even dynamite petards. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z

So on every side the trade unionist is hoist by his own petard. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z

The more he thought, the more clear it became that this sudden move by Marise was a caprice to spite him—to "hoist him from his own petard." Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z

The boys were deeply interested in examining the effects of the explosion, and in the explanation I gave them of the principle and proper way to manage a petard. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z

Not to detract in any way from Macdonald's fine investigative reporting, but it's just a bit amazing that it took this long to hoist Dobbs on his own vile, demagoguing, nativist petard. Lou Dobbs' illegal immigrants 2010-10-07T14:15:00Z

But then he gave an interview to a local journalist in which, even compared with standard-issue speculation-dampening flummery, he constructed quite a petard – with which he was later to be royally hoisted. Brendan Rodgers prepares for his first return to Watford 2010-09-28T12:46:00Z

Photograph: Nick Potts/PA have set the pace all season, largely through their seamers' ability to exploit helpful home conditions, but with the title in touching distance they were horribly hoist by their own petard. Gale call the shots as Notts crumble 2010-09-07T19:35:00Z

But as the original architect of the hands-off approach, he is simply hoist by his own petard when he now, post-crash, extols hands back on. Brown is hoist by his own petard, but cannot admit it 2010-04-08T20:03:00Z

And then she burst forth into a furious tirade against deceit, forgetful entirely of how she was hoist with her own petard. By Birth a Lady

It is not pleasant to be blown from one's own petard, or even scathed in one's own peculiar tone of offence. The Shadow of a Man

Turkey would be hoist by his own petard. The Land of Strong Men

He loads the dice, scratches the cards, Hoists us up by our own petards; And when low music thrills the banquet halls, His shadow like a silent spectre falls In grotesque imagery upon the walls. The Book of Gud

Frieda predicted that he would be hoist by his own petard, some day, and it has come to pass. A Top-Floor Idyl

Had a petard from the Major's own brigade been projected into the centre of the little breakfast table, it could not have played the mischief more effectually than did this stunning explosion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845

"He will be hoist by his own petard!" A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois

He was, indeed, hoist with his own petard. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

"One feels the less compassion, however, when one considers that this was a case of the 'engineer hoist with his own petard.'" Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave"

I have no desire to be hoisted by my own petard. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam

I have been walking over a mine too long to care for a mere petard. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago

The Pinola ran to the hulk under the guns of Fort Jackson, and an effort was made to destroy it with a petard, but failed. Elsie at Viamede

"The engineer was hoist with his own petard," and Curll, the intended victim, had the satisfaction of being the executioner. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition

He was really a man of big caliber and he felt an unwilling admiration of this audacious youngster who had so cleverly hoisted him with his own petard. The Song of the Wolf

It seemed highly probable at this moment that the guide’s spiked shoes would be used as a petard for the destruction of the fugitive thief; but no, he has determined to capture him alive. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1

Ay, the petard has done its work; but the columns are not come up. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II

You could trace with red, From room to room, how we resisted hard Since the great door crashed in to their petard. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses

I have at your service some famous tobacco at seven petards the pound.” Devil Stories An Anthology

It is a tragedy on the Elizabethan model, and we find in scene i. a curious instance of Elizabethan contempt of chronology—a reference to “Hungarian petards.” Life of John Keats

At this moment the air resounded with noisy detonations: fusees, serpents, and petards exploded in all directions—at the gate, in the gardens, even upon the walls of the legation. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

The crash of the petard was answered by a cheer wild as a war-whoop, and onward the infuriated soldiers poured through the still burning timbers. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II

The fate of the engineer hoist by his own petard is Tolstoy's. Ivory Apes and Peacocks

A wild yell answered this, and bullets from the men who were filling the dry moat, while others scrambled across it and charged up to the gates with small powder-kegs and petards ready. Nuala O'Malley

She seldom scored a success, and this time she was hoisted with her own petard. When Ghost Meets Ghost

It was the chicanery of Blount which had ruined his father and driven Colonel Huff to his death, and what could be better, as poetic justice, than to see him hoist on his own petard. Shadow Mountain

"A petard to the gate!" is now the cry,—"a petard, and the bridge is won!" Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II

For once, however, he was “hoist on his own petard.” The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition

Davidge was eager to seize Nicky in the very act of planting his torpedo and hoist him with his own petard. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards

All these letters, even the most poorly written, gave Sophy the impression that the correspondents were dangerous people, she knew not why, and might perhaps hoist her with her own petard. The Peace of Roaring River

Far be it from us to wish a fellow creature in Hell, but there is always a certain pleasure in seeing the engineer hoist with his own petard. Flowers of Freethought (First Series)

Although professionally accustomed to consider the possibilities of permutation, the known fact that petards at times are retroactive did not present itself to his mind. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales

Then an ideal, we are also told, is an elevating influence in life; but unless one is very careful one may get hoist with one's own petard to a pitifully transitory soar above common humanity. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences

The celebration of Brazil's independence opens with a salvo of petards at the door, after which follows a medley of trombones, flutes, triangles and big drums, the whole dominated by an exasperating tenor voice. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875

He could hardly have been without the sensation of one hoisted by his own petard. James Madison

"Hoist with my own petard," said the Phoenix bitterly. David and the Phoenix

The Pinola carried an electrician with a petard, by which it was hoped to shatter the chains. Admiral Farragut

He had indeed been hoist with his own petard; the very adroitness with which he had contrived to get rid of an inconvenient rival had only served to destroy his own chances for ever. The Giant's Robe

The whole house applauded, the bravos became frantic, the great actor was hoist with his own petard. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875

There was an incessant firing of muskets and petards; which proved that the gunpowder had not been all expended upon King Otho. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833

In setting this petard he hadn’t got out of range quickly enough. The Pagan Madonna

Chesterton used to have a grand time hoisting people on their own petards, and letting forth strings of epigrams at the expense of those from whom he differed, and only incidentally revealing his own position. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study

The only other occasion on which I have known a Moor to be hoisted with the petard of his own contemptuous fanaticism was an experience of my own. Pan-Islam

“To be sure I do not know the Highland custom in the matter,” she was continuing complacently when Aileen hoist her with her own petard. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45

To the vigor and despair of the insurgents, the fortress replied from its walls and towers by petards, showers of sulphur and boiling pitch and the discharges of artillery. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09

They rallied Jack not a little on his grand effort at heroism and Rand even dug up an old schoolbook quotation about an engineer who had been hoist with his own petard. The Boy Scouts on the Yukon

And I decided to see him hoisted by his own petard. The Prairie Mother

The man who fixes and fires a petard, a service of great danger. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc.

When the conspirators thus beheld themselves “hoist with their own petard,” the first feeling among them was less fear for their safety than awe at the just judgment of God. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

She was still hoist with her own petard: the pitiful belief in the potency of her absurdities. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg

I thought to help him, and carefully pushed it with a small reed until it rolled over on the sand, and he with it, innocuously hoist by his own petard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866

Moral.—It is rare sport to see the Coroner hoist with his own petard. Humour of the North

Why, nothing more or less than to hoist these German blokes with their own petard, so to speak. War and the Weird

She was labouring under an uncomfortable sense of being hoist with her own petard—an uncomfortable memory of a certain warning of her husband's, delivered at Murewell. Robert Elsmere

How easy it is for a man to become an unspeakable villain, and how nicely this one was hoisted with his own petard! Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude

The galleon was much larger than the Centurion, had a crew of five hundred and fifty men, and thirty-six guns, besides twenty-eight pidreroes or petards, each of which carried a four-pound ball. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold

Thus was the Hon. J. H. "hoist by his own petard," the first man to fall by this expensive military company. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses

Happily they could still gain a few minutes further north on the condition of breaking up the ice with huge clubs and petards. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras

They had had visions of dire jests and grievous humiliations: of finding themselves suddenly astride the bare backs of berserk mules, or hoisted by blazing petards, or douched with mysterious cascades of icy water. Pipefuls

Both warriors shot backward as if discharged from a petard, disappearing from view down the slope into the big drifts at the foot. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North

If a friendly hand had not pulled me back, I should have run on to the petard which drove in the second gate. In Kings' Byways

Poor man, he had been hoisted by his own petard. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865

"The engineer would have been hoisted with his own petard" probably, if they had attempted the arrest. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

I never saw such a petard of a man; I think the devil was in him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)

“Yes: that was being hoist with your own petard, Mr Engineer,” cried Vane, merrily. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias

Two men with a petard—then a strange invention—led the way through the gloom, attended by ten picked soldiers. In Kings' Byways

“It may end in a mistake, and we don’t want to be hoist with our own petard.” Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea

“What shall we do with the powder, then?” asked Uncle Bob; “save it to hoist some of the scoundrels with their own petard?” Patience Wins War in the Works

“A terrible mistake, father; but, to be quite fair, it was all my doing, and I was hoist with my own petard.” Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land

A few seconds afterwards a series of sharp explosions took place, which told us that these men had been the bearers of grenades or petards with which to blow open the door. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War

Then St. Martin sprang forward, and by his side Captain Robert, who had fixed the first petard. In Kings' Byways

"Hoist with his own petard," an ancient phrase signifying that one's carefully laid scheme has exploded, had truly graphic meaning in the old days when everybody knew what a petard was. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America

Poor man! he had been hoisted by his own petard. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer

Its bursting would not hurt her with the world, but would be a discovery that she was purely and essentially Protestant, and would be really the "hoisting of the engineer with his own petard." Apologia pro Vita Sua

He spoke solemnly, laughing in his sleeve at the cleverness with which he was turning his enemy's petard against him. The Long Night

Captain Robert lay scarcely fifteen paces from us, and by his side the hammer, spike, and petard he had carried. In Kings' Byways

Furthermore, as one would guess, hanging a petard was a hazardous occupation; it went out of style in the early 1700's. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America

Another submarine has failed to find a safe victim in a trading ship, but has been hoisted with its own sea petard. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers

As it was, the Confederate commander, who was the only foreign officer on board, "had been hoisted by his own petard." A Victorious Union

It cut off the engineer from the outer gate, of which the keys were at the Town Hall, and against which in another minute, another sixty seconds, he had set his petard. The Long Night

Was it so wrong to hoist the engineer with his own petard? English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4

Since the petard fired no projectile, it was hardly a gun. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America

The widow striving to use this knowledge for purposes not far removed from blackmail, is neatly hoist with her own petard, and the slight play ends with the cordial reconciliation of the Selbys. Charles Lamb

He was hoist with his own petard, but his burden grew lighter all the same. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

In one place a house, fired by the petard employed to force the door, was actually alight. The Long Night

"You don't think he was 'hoist with his own petard, then?" suggested Torry. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats

Small petards weighed about 50 pounds; the large ones, around 70 pounds. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America

Now, truly, I had hanged my petard well and 'twas plain the shock of it had gone far to shatter the wall of confidence our enemies had builded on the field of Camden and elsewhere. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady

The petards were taken out from beneath a heap of stones, where Hugh had hid them, and were fixed on the piece of timber, one end of which was just afloat in the stream. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars

This was alone made possible by the Canal, and Ismaïl to his chagrin found himself "hoist with his own petard." The Future of Islam

Fowler too would be hoist by his own petard. The Enchanted Canyon

But on a well-barred, double gate the small petard was useless, and the great petard would break only the fore part of such a gate. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard. Familiar Quotations

Gerald would take two petards, which weighed some twenty pounds each, to his tent, one by one. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars

What if Don Mike has hoisted you on your own petard? The Pride of Palomar

He gives us a long account of the psychical disturbances at B——; noises between his bed and the ceiling, like continuous explosion of petards, so that he could not hear himself speak, &c. &c. The Alleged Haunting of B—— House

When all was ready, the petardiers seized the two handles of the petard and carried it to the troublesome door. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America

Well, I'm hoist with my own petard this time, though I wouldn't confess as much to him if my life depended on it. Austin and His Friends

In them the hooks were inserted, and from these the petards were suspended by ropes, so as to lie against the sides of the boats, an inch only above the water's level. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars

What right has any one to explode a petard in the midst of sweet sociality, and blow every thing like sequence and sentiment sky-high? Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

She was hoist with her own petard and covered her confusion by a light laugh which was most unconvincing. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment

She had been caught in the net of her own stratagem—hoist by her own petard. The Real Adventure

It is this kind of an artificer that Shakespeare refers to when he playfully suggests that "'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard." Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892

I have seen my cousin Gerald, but he will not let me have the petards unless he knows for what purpose they are to be used. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars

The would-be assassin was "hoist with his own petard," leaving the public mystified as to the motive of the outrage. The Awakening of China

At the noise of the petard, forty men armed and about two hundred arquebusiers ran almost naked to dispute our entry; meantime the bells rung the alarm, to warn everybody to stand to their defence. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees

It was necessary to use a petard to lay bare the treasure, and no one had the necessary skill. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873

They left behind them thirty-four cannon and six mortars, with petards, scaling-ladders, tents, ammunition, baggage, intrenching tools, many of their muskets, and all their sick and wounded. Montcalm and Wolfe

The log was not very large, although of considerable length, and with the petards upon it, it showed but little above water. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars

A tremendous explosion; the wide doors behind are burst in by a petard; the barn falls, and discovers a view of York. Cromwell

Mr. Chamberlain prepared an educational bombshell, but Mr. Healy hoisted the engineer with his own petard. Sketches in the House (1893)

The tenacious, elastic sand defied all tools or leverage: no petard could blast so fickle and treacherous a substance. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873

The besiegers had now no real chance of success unless they could carry the place by storm, to which end they had provided abundant scaling-ladders as well as petards to burst in the gates. Montcalm and Wolfe

The petards and other objects were placed on the boom, upon which Rupert, as the lightest of the party, crept, holding in his hand a cord fastened round the log. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars

Life in Venetia must be very dull: no more explosion of pasteboard petards; no more treason in bouquets; no more stealthy inscriptions on the walls—it must be insufferably dull. Italian Journeys

They had discharged but a petard, but a mine to effect a breach. If Winter Comes

But she was found, and the petard, like a huge axe wielded by a giant's arms, cut into her treasure-house and rescued it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873

To hoist the Briton with his own petard is particularly sweet to the German mind.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through

"Forward!" cried he, and rushed on through the midst of the fire, and arrived just as the soldiers had fired the first petard. The Forty-Five Guardsmen

He was hoist with his own petard, in short; and stood there nonplussed, vexed alike at himself and at circumstance. Deadham Hard

It drew the attention of one of Cromwell's generals, and he dispatched a party with cannon and petards to reduce the place, whilst he marched on to join Cromwell in enterprises of more importance. A Perilous Secret

In this case the unlucky engineer was "hoist with his own petard," for while he stood adjusting one of his engines, it went off, and shot him into the town. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

To hoist the German with his own petard is particularly sweet to the British mind. Mr. Britling Sees It Through

Then we will break it down with petards and go in. The Forty-Five Guardsmen

She was now hoist with her own petard, for, being heavily made up, she could not and would not follow the leader. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections

By this time the town was in alarm, and the drums beat to arms, but it was too late, for by the help of a petard we broke open the gate, and entered the town. Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648.

Was he now to be hoist for some unknown reason by his own petard? By Advice of Counsel

She is looking on now to see us hoist by our own petard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861

Then came the artillery, and with the loss of thirty men succeeded in placing their petards under the gate. The Forty-Five Guardsmen

When we had finished, it would have puzzled a colonel of engineers to make a better petard. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

Four sappers at length laid a petard beneath the gate at the other side of the bridge. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction

We still look after their legal safeguards long after they have hoisted them with their own petards. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861

And every time the capitalist tries to hoist himself with his own petard, the administration smothers the blaze with a block of interest- bearing bonds. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12

If they could not take the city by surprise, they might, as we have seen the king of Navarre do at Cahors, fill up the moats with fascines and burst open the gates with petards. The Forty-Five Guardsmen

Caw will be interested to know that it was Bullard who was here last night with his petards. Till the Clock Stops

"Certainly," she said, shaping her own voice into a petard against the little clang of surprise in the voice of her vis-à-vis. Star-Dust

Let you be hoist by the same petard that's always lying around to hoist me! It Happened in Egypt

It is a mental impossibility, of course; but perhaps my good friend "Dorry" can be persuaded to attempt it—to hoist himself with his own petard. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12

"It is the fusee, as we martialists call it," replied the knight; "that is, Phoebe, the match which fires the petard, and which is longer or shorter, according to the distance." Woodstock; or, the Cavalier

I begin to suspect, also, that kitchen-gossip is a mischancy petard, and rather more than apt to hoist the engineer who employs it. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking

But, like others handling petards, Seymour Michael grew somewhat careless, and forgot that the wrong man is sometimes hoist. From One Generation to Another

She was laboring under an uncomfortable sense of being hoist with her own petard—an uncomfortable memory of a certain warning of her husband's, delivered at Murewell. Robert Elsmere

Don't you see that he is hoist with his own petard? A Traveler from Altruria: Romance

Take care, good Phoebe," said the knight; "you will prevent my using my weapon if you hang upon me thus.—The bungling fools cannot fix their petard without the use of torches! Woodstock; or, the Cavalier

He was to be hoist with his own petard. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV

He has his regular walks on the Boulevards and in the Palais Royal, where he sets his watch by the petard fired off by the sun at midday. The Crayon Papers

He lives in history as one who, better than in Hamlet's illustration, was "hoist with his own petard," the petard in his case being a gallows. Short Stories Old and New

It looks now like certain busybodies in this community had over-stepped themselves and been hoisted up by their own petard. The Boss of Little Arcady

"They are fixing a petard," said the knight, with great composure. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier

At the same time, the assailants fired briskly on them through the loopholes, and, placing a petard under the walls, threatened to blow them into the air. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

Then the two boy aeronauts turned their back on the enemies who had been hoisted by their own petard. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane

The first thing to be done was to depose the other two prophets, Robins and Tannye, and to hoise them on their own petard. The Coming of the Friars

How Californians make their money and how they spend it is a topic which in handling requires great subtlety of intellect, a fine delicacy of expression and much diplomacy, otherwise twenty-three petards! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers

It's rather hoisting him on his own petard, as it were. The Long Chance

It was a case of the engineer "hoist with his own petard!" The Midnight Passenger : a novel

Well, after the war was over, Grandpa he went back to his castle to rest up for the next war, and to have his sword sharpened and his petard fixed. Mr. Bingle

I travel in the same security as with a lighted petard, which I may expect to explode every moment. Peveril of the Peak

Fortunately, perhaps, for Augustus Adolphus he found the dormitory empty, and was able to remove from his person the most obvious evidences of one hoisted by his own petard. Many Kingdoms

The boys were deeply interested in examining the effects of the explosion, and in the explanation I gave them of the proper way to manage a petard. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3

The mask of the petard just grazed our heads, and one side of the gate lay on the ground. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville

The writer remembers being nicely hoisted by his own petard on a similar occasion: "What do you do for a living?" he asked. Courts and Criminals

Even as they went I was conscious of exclaiming,—remembering the saying about the engineer being hoist by his own petard, 'Atherton's Magic Vapour!' The Beetle

The leader of the Imperialists, who carried a petard, advanced boldly to the edge of the ditch. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus

They have, presumably, plenty of powder, probably some live shells, petards, and what-not, that will make short work even of those oaken doors. A Rock in the Baltic

No one ever pities her when she is 'hoist with her own petard!' Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2

The bladder senna filled the air with the noise of its bursting petards. Piccolissima

The boys were deeply interested in examining the effects of the explosion, and in the explanation I gave them, of the principle, and proper way to manage a petard. Swiss Family Robinson

In spite of the tremendous fire poured upon them from the wall they reached the gate, and the two colonels fixed the petards to it and retired a few paces. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus

He can thus hoist Destiny with its own petard, and, besides, being eumoirous, can spend a month or two in a peculiarly diverting manner. Simon the Jester

Read us Tom's letter, confute the engineer, hoist with his own petard.' The Trial

Meanwhile the Bolshevist picks and petards are at work on the foundations of both buildings; and though the Bolshevists may be buried in the ruins, their deaths will not save the edifices. Heartbreak House

By hoisting the rogue with his own petard. Captain Brassbound's Conversion

Ramparts of earth and stockades were hastily thrown up, and the gates were backed by piles of rubbish to prevent them being blown in by petards. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus

The gun-powder exploded much too soon, and poor Miss Thorne felt that she was blown up by the strength of her own petard. Barchester Towers

The senators found themselves hoist with their own petard, however, for the lower house, made up largely of Grangers, accepted this bill rather than let the matter of railroad legislation go by default. The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics

They might fling one of their petards in at the window, if you were there; but otherwise, never, in this world. Put Yourself in His Place

The gunpowder exploded much too soon and poor Miss Thorne felt that she was blown up by the strength of her own petard. Barchester Towers

The parapet tottered, and then with a tremendous crash fell, burying five or six of the Imperialists and the petard beneath the ruins. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus

The Gates of the Town, under axe and petard, can make little resistance, to Leopold's Column or the other two. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12

Some years ago, the foreign tea-merchants at a large port, in order to curb excessive charges, decided to hoist the Chinese tea-men, or sellers of tea, with their own petard. The Civilization of China

I had anticipated an affair with men only—a secret assault or a petard expedition. A Gentleman of France

"That dog ate his own stomach," said Cetewayo grimly, thereby indicating in native fashion that the biter had been bit or the engineer hoist with his petard. Finished

"They will try and blow it open with petards," Malcolm said. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus

A third had defended his old house till Fairfax had blown in the door with a petard. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1

They stared in silence, for their breath was gone at his audacity; but one horrid laugh exploded on the floor like a petard. The Cloister and the Hearth

It is Monday, the 14th of September 1788: Rascality assembles anew, in great force, in the Place Dauphine; lets off petards, fires blunderbusses, to an incredible extent, without interval, for eighteen hours. The French Revolution

I was appalled; yet to think of Therese being hoisted with her own petard was like a turn of affairs in a farce. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes

Such is the illogical quality of humanity that Holsten, fresh from work that was like a petard under the seat of current civilisation, saw these changes with regret. The World Set Free

Municipalities there are, paralyzed by War-minister; Commandants with orders to stop even Federation Volunteers; good, when sound arguments will not open a Town-gate, if you have a petard to shiver it! The French Revolution

Swept are the Pyrenees; Town after Town flies up, burst by terror or the petard. The French Revolution

On Monday morning the explosion of petards began: and now it is near midnight of Wednesday; and the 'wicker Mannequin' is to be buried,—apparently in the Antique fashion. The French Revolution

单词	petard
例句	petard Agravaine, exulting in his cold mind, thought: “Hoist with his own petard!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That's reckless!' the solver has to regard 'see' as exploding as well as 'petard', a clearly meaningless concept. Azed slip No. 2,126 2013-03-25T10:24:00Z In short, the director gets them to hoist themselves on their own petard. The Queen of Versailles: How the Biggest House in America Became a Brokedown Palace 2012-07-19T12:00:40Z For instance, I told myself, we continued to say, “He was hoisted by his own petard,” long after anybody actually knew what a petard looked like. When ‘All Thumbs’ Becomes a Compliment 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z These postmodernists are being hoisted by their own petard by a student who hasn't even read the majority of the works he's stealing from. 'Death of the Author' finds life in academic theory 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s just one in a handful of canny symbols in Greenfield’s new feature, a telling encapsulation of the mentality shared by her subjects as they hoist themselves by their own petards. 'She's an unreliable narrator': Lauren Greenfield on her Imelda Marcos documentary 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z They, in turn, are hoisted on the petard of hypocrisy or, at the very least, fallibility, in a sequence of face-offs that leaves no one in peace. Adultery With a Difference on the London Stage 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z “Many a cocktail has been hoist on the petard of its own casual plurality,” as cocktail writer Charles H Baker once wrote. How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z She’s hoisting herself more on her own petard more than most perhaps. Scott Westerfeld on writing his novel-within-a-YA-novel 'Afterworlds' 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Once at the top, the puppet is slid back down across a valley on a rope, petards hanging below its feet exploding at intervals, while crowds cheer below. Remote Croatian island marks victory over pirates with Carnival cheer 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The turnabout — in which he is hoisted by his own petard — is squirmy but not as resonant as it would like to be. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Review: A Dare Makes an Intimate Party Too Intimate 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z It's the Coyote-Roadrunner relationship, with the schemer hoisted repeatedly on his own petard â€” another Saturday morning tradition. 'T.U.F.F. Puppy' and 'Planet Sheen,' premiering Saturday on Nickelodeon 2010-10-01T23:24:00Z I didn’t merely get hoisted by my own petard—my petard fell on me and shattered my skull. Goodnight, sweet print 2013-05-12T19:00:00Z There's a legal piece to this whether you want to try to hold me up on a petard. Tribune interview with Rahm Emanuel 2012-02-12T13:12:00Z This is not the only case of an “enginer hoist with his own petard,” as Shakespeare would put it; this becomes something of a motif in the novel. Inside the Mind of an Islamic Extremist 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z On the other hand, I was happily hoist by my own obsessive petard by a passing reference to a “dirty martini.” Opinion \| ‘Perry Mason’ looks like a million bucks. But its dialogue isn’t as seamless. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z A political party hoisted, as the saying goes, on its own petard. Kari Lake's doomed legal battle: The holiday grift that keeps on giving 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z But she was hoisted by her own homophonous petard. What ‘your’ vs. ‘you’re’ says about Congress right now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The words “hoist” and “petard” come to mind. Perspective \| The problem with fruit juice: All that sugar 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Despite that controversy, the FTC's choice to hoist Facebook by its own petard makes sense. Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg’s emails 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He was “owning the libs” — hoisting them, as his supporters saw it, on their own petard of priggish propriety. Opinion \| Goodbye Principled Conservatism 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z “But we’re actually a little bit, ah, hoist by our own petard, here,” said the second one. That time we borked causality 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z “Blast in Beirut might also be result of what is described as a Hezbollah work accident. The French might say hoisted on their own petard.” Opinion \| As Beirut mourns, our failed leadership looks for someone to punish. I say they must all go. 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z But let us not shed tears for Sessions, for whom the phrase "hoisted by his own petard" may as well have been invented. Jeff Sessions' downfall: The wages of loyalty to Donald Trump is public humiliation 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z It is a case of being hoisted by his own petard. Opinion \| This may sound like Trump’s wackiest conspiracy theory. But it’s actually true. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z But its most dramatic spectacle might be the sight of a facile, lazy enterprise being hoist on its own cynical petard. Review \| Controversial thriller ‘The Hunt’ is finally in theaters. Don’t waste your time. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “In the end it is her animosity, frenetic, irrational and baseless actions against this president that will ultimately hoist her on her own petard,” she continued. Judge Jeanine: Public humiliation of 'Pelosi and her Democrat caucus' is 'an embarrassment to watch' 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the handful of Democratic presidential candidates still clinging to variations of hope and change face off Thursday at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles after barely dodging a close encounter with their own petards. Opinion \| Spoiler alert: Trump is probably going to win in 2020 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Democrats could be hoisted by their own petard. Colorado Editorial Roundup 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s ironic that after all the wrong things President Trump has done and said, a single word may be enough to hoist him with his own petard. Opinion \| The fallout of Trump’s ‘favor’ 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z For now we’re stuck with it — hoisted, it seems, by our own liberal petard. Seattle a model of democracy? Big money is swamping our elections like never before. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr Coates summed it up as "a classic example of somebody being hoist on their own petard, basically". Five quotes that sum up the Trudeau crisis 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Has Sarri been hoist by the petard of such a fantastic start to the season, which even saw Chelsea being breathlessly suggested as title contenders in those early weeks? Chelsea v Manchester City: Carabao Cup final – live! 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z “Out of loyalty to the new president and his desire to be part of the administration, he hoisted himself upon his own petard,” they wrote. Papadopoulos: Trump 'nodded' at suggestion of Putin meeting 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z “He’s being hoisted by his own petard,” said Ned Price, a former National Security Council official under President Barack Obama. Trump Appears to Admit White House Aides Signed Nondisclosure Agreements 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z It's good to see overzealous federal prosecutors hoist by their own petard. Justice Department Dismisses Corruption Case Against Menendez 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z One acts as a petard, blasting through a wall to grant access to the others. Military robots are getting smaller and more capable 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z President Trump seems to live atop his own petard. Analysis \| No matter what he does, history says Trump will never be popular 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z But now, having campaigned for six years on “repeal and replace,” Republicans find themselves hoist by their own petard. The Republican healthcare plan has a formidable foe: economics \| Joe McLean 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z “If Trump finds himself hoisted on the 100-day test, it is a petard that he erected for himself.” Trump Wants It Known: Grading 100 Days Is ‘Ridiculous’ (but His Were the Best) 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Still, there’s a certain grim satisfaction in watching a man who deliberately blurs the lines between his business and high office being hoist by his own petard. Memo to Melania and Ivanka Trump: beware brand fatigue \| Gaby Hinsliff 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Corbett is hoist upon the petard of his very own words. A V.I.P. Nets Package Offered Free to The Times 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Analysts agree that the government was hoist with its own petard. New television channels in Ethiopia may threaten state control 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Like Shakespeare’s engineer, he will have been hoist with his own petard. Has Rudy Giuliani Been Done in by His Own Buck-Raking? 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z A clear case of being hoisted on your own petard, I'd say. Putting the Polling Miss of the 2016 Election in Perspective 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z In failing to meet the legal threshold, Mr. Orban’s government found itself hoisted by its own petard. Hungary Votes Against Migrants, but Too Few to Clear Threshold 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z And again his ad problem is the same as his debate problem: Her ads predominately just replay his own words; in both cases he was hoist on his own petard. Advantage Clinton 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The Democrats are trying their best to deflect from Hillary’s multiple problems and scandals by attempting to skewer Mr. Trump on his national security petard. Donald Trump’s no traitor, but left deflects Hillary Clinton’s treason 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Prime Minister David Cameron is off, hoist on his own petard. Britain’s Referendum Was Not a Triumph of Democracy 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z A “petard” is, according to Google, a small French bomb used to destroy flimsy structures. Roy Hodgson’s sickly imitation of old values leads to England’s uber-loss \| Barney Ronay 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But they are not the first criminals to be hoist by their own petard - as the following cases illustrate. 13 of the world's most stupid criminals - BBC News 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s now clear that Senator Cruz has been hoisted by his own petard. Ted Cruz's favorite temperature data just got a lot hotter \| Dana Nuccitelli 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Trump should explain himself – let him hoist himself on his own petard. This Joke's Not Funny Anymore 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z And if that can happen, if the now ex-most powerful leader in football can be hoisted with his own petard, then perhaps there's hope for the future of FIFA, after all? Column: Sepp Blatter ban from FIFA may, just may, offer hope of cleaner future for football 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z And if that can happen, if the now ex-most powerful leader in football can be hoisted with his own petard, then perhaps there’s hope for the future of FIFA, after all? Column: Sepp Blatter, hoisted by his own petard at FIFA 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “They were kind of hoisted on their own petard.” As VW Pushed to Be No. 1, Ambitions Fueled a Scandal 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z There are also two citations that quietly hoist Scalia and his fellow dissenters, Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas, with their own petards. The Supreme Court Decides: A Conversation 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Nothing like seeing one of sports’ premier franchises brought down a few notches, hoist by its own petard. SNYDER: Roger Goodell trying to avoid embarrassment in Tom Brady appeal 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z With no easy way to push weak candidates from the race, Republicans are being hoist by their own gilded petard. For the GOP, ‘one man, one vote’ becomes ‘one billionaire, one ballot’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z He was hoisted by his own absurd petard. The Fed Knew the Economy Was a Disaster in 2009. Here’s What They Talked About Instead. 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Second half - Murray fumbles on a certain TD Play, Bryant's catch is ruled not a catch, Cows Defensive Coaches allow Rodgers plenty of time in 2nd half -- Cows hoisted on their own petard. Aaron Rodgers, Playing Hurt, Helps Packers Top Cowboys 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z But to that, the court essentially responds that OPR is hoist by its own petard. OPR's Power Continues to Ebb 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Hoist by my own petard, it would seem. Marijuana’s addictive risk shouldn't be ignored OK, so Bullock made Miss Congeniality 2 and DiCaprio seems to be in something of a loop playing brooding upward climbers hoisted on their own sybaritic petards. Five Things The Forbes Celebrity 100 Says About Hollywood Star Power 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z It’s not that there are suddenly more sexist CEOs, it’s that they’re being hoisted more often by their own petards. The Days of the Chief Executive Bro Are Numbered 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z After being hoisted innumerable times by the petard of sloppily worded memos from low-level drones, GM management instructed its employees to write precisely about product-safety issues. GM's Attempt To Snuff Out Smoking-Gun Memos Breeds Its Own Smoking-Gun Memo 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The new sharia-based argument against the driving ban wrests this moral high ground and hoists the guardians on their own petard. Have Saudi Women Traded Civil Rights for Driving Rights? 2013-10-30T09:45:52Z I’m being hoisted on my own petard here. Is Software Quality Going To Hell In A Shopping Basket? 2013-07-22T06:00:00Z Buchanan, recognising the apparent lack of clout that Wright had had, recommended that the new coach should be given considerably more power and as a result was hoisted on his own petard. New Zealand cricket riven by intrigue ahead of England Test series 2013-03-03T14:03:50Z “Chávez is like Santa Claus,” goes one of the most popular anti-Chávez petards sweeping the web. Is Chávez Really in Venezuela? 2013-02-20T09:45:00Z And, to some extent, we are hoisted on our own petard—vulnerable to this condition of advancing age because we are better at living longer than ever before. Mind Your Body 2013-02-08T13:33:00Z He lived via the Internet, and he’s about to find out what it means to be hoisted on his own petard. Manti Teo hoax has more culprits than victims 2013-01-23T20:28:49Z Chávez may be hoist by his own petard, however. Which Cancer Is Chávez Fighting? 2012-12-11T09:45:00Z You’ve got to give Rivard a modicum of credit for one thing: He’s petard to spare and he knows how to hoist himself by it. Roger Rivard, rape apologist 2012-10-11T15:54:00Z However the suspicion after an action-packed first day at the old Racecourse is that against Essex, they may be hoist by their own petard. David Masters and Graham Napier of Essex combine to exploit Derbyshire 2012-08-28T23:17:25Z We were full seven hundred short, and then the petard went off too soon, and did no good, but brought the whole town upon us. The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. 2012-04-25T02:00:59.637Z Although the U99 had disposed of her cargo of mines without mishap--several of the German submarines having been "hoist with their own petards"--her efforts had not met with marked success. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The King, who was at Coventry, had sent to Digby, demanding a petard. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z I and my friends set out in the 'Kitty McQuaire' to run down the 'Marigold,' and we've been hoist on our own petard--as the saying goes. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z I had anticipated an affair with men only--a secret assault or a petard expedition. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z For what Jacobite, seeing the enemy hoist with his own petard could avoid a snigger? Shrewsbury A Romance 2012-03-15T02:00:22.177Z Ludwig was found dead in the hall, slain on the spot by the explosion of the petard which had driven in the door. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Odd though it may appear, a petard was to Digby a thing unknown—"a word which he could not understand." Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z They were all to charge together the instant after the petard had done its work. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z They stared in silence, for their breath was gone at his audacity: but one horrid laugh exploded on the floor like a petard. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z I remember quite well putting boxes of fire-crackers in a tin pail to frighten the horses, and throwing numerous little petards under people's feet, but no one seemed to mind. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z War was being hoist by its own petard. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Rupert, at once, got out of bed to search the arsenal; but no such thing as a petard was to be found. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Who proved himself at length a witch, And made a rod for his own breech’— the engineer hoist with his own petard—happily a by no means infrequent mode of retribution. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z In "The Jew" his thwarted lust for gold drives him through a series of villanous triumphs over difficulties until he is melodramatically hoist with his own petard. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Poor Alexandre, the lover of all women and none in particular, was hoisted with his own petard. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z This woman was "hoisted on her own petard," being sent to the penitentiary, instead of Elsie. Octavia The Octoroon 2011-09-26T02:00:30.547Z Rupert, following the petard, found his uncle at Leicester Abbey, and there formally took over charge of the cavalry, which then consisted of only eight hundred horse. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z Small dynamite shells from Mackenzie's pneumatic gun had struck the car of the balloon, and by the firing of half a ton of explosives the enemy was in an instant hoist with his own petard. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z "There you cannot go, and so I tell you once for all, unless you have brought petards with you under your coats of mail." 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z "He tried, your highness; but the Swedes seized the petards and wounded him slightly, and Sapyeha's men were repulsed." The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z "You're hoist by your own petard when you put yourself on a pedestal and the whole thing falls apart." Scandal threatens Shalala's ambitions at UMiami 2011-08-27T14:53:09Z Not until April did Trevor wring two petards from Lord Percy, "and now I have got them, I do not, for my life, know how to send them to your quarters," he declared. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z "Hoist with her own petard!" he muttered to himself in great satisfaction. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z Noise was not wanting, for petards exploded with unpleasant frequency; and as the salvoes died out there was constantly arising the peculiar dull subdued roar of the thronging multitude in ecstasy at the unwonted sight. George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life 2011-07-31T02:00:08.463Z "Colonel," said he to Volodyovski, "we are to explode a petard." The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z “But now we have a situation where the integrity of the economy and the U.S. financial system is at stake, and they’re being hoisted on their own petards.” After Aiding Republicans, Business Groups Press Them on Debt Ceiling 2011-07-27T03:56:59Z The Story of Wonder Wendi Yet there he was seated before the M.P.s, fumbling and halting and forgetting, perhaps sensing that he was being hoisted on his own petard. Rupert Murdoch as Citizen 2011-07-25T05:00:00Z Why could he not enlist his unwieldy gifthorse among Derby candidates and so hoist the Duchess on the pinnacle of her own petard? A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... 2011-07-13T02:00:17.950Z Well, it seems to me that I am in a position to hoist these people with their own petard. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z Saint had just begun to realise, also, that he was hoist with his own petard. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z "Perhaps Stigler's latest move to 'run me off my feet' may be the petard which will hoist him off his own; at any rate, as regards his five-and-ten-cent venture." Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z But what satisfaction sweeter than hoisting the enemy with his own petard? Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z Usually it was a white-haired man, once it was a woman, lean, energetic, stern, who had lost one eye through the explosion of a dynamite petard. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z I was about to get hoisted for the second time on my own 140-character petard. Twitter, the CNN anchor and me: A cautionary tale ( ...I'm the villain) 2011-03-21T19:02:04Z Now here we were, hoist by our own petard. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z But posterity has been just: in his anger, he overcharged his weapon, it recoiled, and the engineer has been "hoisted by his own petard." The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z This child doesn't want to be hoist with his own petard. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z And was it true that they had a special technique for burning down whole towns at once, with kerosene pumps and dynamite petards? Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z The petard was a kind of bomb employed for blowing open gates, etc. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z Now truly were they hoist of their own petard. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z Serve them out in their own coin; as it were hoisting the priest on his own petard!” Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z The Franc-Taupin took in his hands the redoubtable petard, examined the structure of the door minutely, and after a moment's reflection inserted the iron box with no little difficulty under the lower hinge. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z A few sections of the wall were still standing, its thick solidity resisting even dynamite petards. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z So on every side the trade unionist is hoist by his own petard. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z The more he thought, the more clear it became that this sudden move by Marise was a caprice to spite him—to "hoist him from his own petard." Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z The boys were deeply interested in examining the effects of the explosion, and in the explanation I gave them of the principle and proper way to manage a petard. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z Not to detract in any way from Macdonald's fine investigative reporting, but it's just a bit amazing that it took this long to hoist Dobbs on his own vile, demagoguing, nativist petard. Lou Dobbs' illegal immigrants 2010-10-07T14:15:00Z But then he gave an interview to a local journalist in which, even compared with standard-issue speculation-dampening flummery, he constructed quite a petard – with which he was later to be royally hoisted. Brendan Rodgers prepares for his first return to Watford 2010-09-28T12:46:00Z Photograph: Nick Potts/PA have set the pace all season, largely through their seamers' ability to exploit helpful home conditions, but with the title in touching distance they were horribly hoist by their own petard. Gale call the shots as Notts crumble 2010-09-07T19:35:00Z But as the original architect of the hands-off approach, he is simply hoist by his own petard when he now, post-crash, extols hands back on. Brown is hoist by his own petard, but cannot admit it 2010-04-08T20:03:00Z And then she burst forth into a furious tirade against deceit, forgetful entirely of how she was hoist with her own petard. By Birth a Lady It is not pleasant to be blown from one's own petard, or even scathed in one's own peculiar tone of offence. The Shadow of a Man Turkey would be hoist by his own petard. The Land of Strong Men He loads the dice, scratches the cards, Hoists us up by our own petards; And when low music thrills the banquet halls, His shadow like a silent spectre falls In grotesque imagery upon the walls. The Book of Gud Frieda predicted that he would be hoist by his own petard, some day, and it has come to pass. A Top-Floor Idyl Had a petard from the Major's own brigade been projected into the centre of the little breakfast table, it could not have played the mischief more effectually than did this stunning explosion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 "He will be hoist by his own petard!" A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois He was, indeed, hoist with his own petard. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History "One feels the less compassion, however, when one considers that this was a case of the 'engineer hoist with his own petard.'" Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" I have no desire to be hoisted by my own petard. The Boy Scouts for Uncle Sam I have been walking over a mine too long to care for a mere petard. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago The Pinola ran to the hulk under the guns of Fort Jackson, and an effort was made to destroy it with a petard, but failed. Elsie at Viamede "The engineer was hoist with his own petard," and Curll, the intended victim, had the satisfaction of being the executioner. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition He was really a man of big caliber and he felt an unwilling admiration of this audacious youngster who had so cleverly hoisted him with his own petard. The Song of the Wolf It seemed highly probable at this moment that the guide’s spiked shoes would be used as a petard for the destruction of the fugitive thief; but no, he has determined to capture him alive. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Ay, the petard has done its work; but the columns are not come up. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II You could trace with red, From room to room, how we resisted hard Since the great door crashed in to their petard. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses I have at your service some famous tobacco at seven petards the pound.” Devil Stories An Anthology It is a tragedy on the Elizabethan model, and we find in scene i. a curious instance of Elizabethan contempt of chronology—a reference to “Hungarian petards.” Life of John Keats At this moment the air resounded with noisy detonations: fusees, serpents, and petards exploded in all directions—at the gate, in the gardens, even upon the walls of the legation. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The crash of the petard was answered by a cheer wild as a war-whoop, and onward the infuriated soldiers poured through the still burning timbers. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The fate of the engineer hoist by his own petard is Tolstoy's. Ivory Apes and Peacocks A wild yell answered this, and bullets from the men who were filling the dry moat, while others scrambled across it and charged up to the gates with small powder-kegs and petards ready. Nuala O'Malley She seldom scored a success, and this time she was hoisted with her own petard. When Ghost Meets Ghost It was the chicanery of Blount which had ruined his father and driven Colonel Huff to his death, and what could be better, as poetic justice, than to see him hoist on his own petard. Shadow Mountain "A petard to the gate!" is now the cry,—"a petard, and the bridge is won!" Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II For once, however, he was “hoist on his own petard.” The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition Davidge was eager to seize Nicky in the very act of planting his torpedo and hoist him with his own petard. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards All these letters, even the most poorly written, gave Sophy the impression that the correspondents were dangerous people, she knew not why, and might perhaps hoist her with her own petard. The Peace of Roaring River Far be it from us to wish a fellow creature in Hell, but there is always a certain pleasure in seeing the engineer hoist with his own petard. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Although professionally accustomed to consider the possibilities of permutation, the known fact that petards at times are retroactive did not present itself to his mind. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Then an ideal, we are also told, is an elevating influence in life; but unless one is very careful one may get hoist with one's own petard to a pitifully transitory soar above common humanity. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences The celebration of Brazil's independence opens with a salvo of petards at the door, after which follows a medley of trombones, flutes, triangles and big drums, the whole dominated by an exasperating tenor voice. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 He could hardly have been without the sensation of one hoisted by his own petard. James Madison "Hoist with my own petard," said the Phoenix bitterly. David and the Phoenix The Pinola carried an electrician with a petard, by which it was hoped to shatter the chains. Admiral Farragut He had indeed been hoist with his own petard; the very adroitness with which he had contrived to get rid of an inconvenient rival had only served to destroy his own chances for ever. The Giant's Robe The whole house applauded, the bravos became frantic, the great actor was hoist with his own petard. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 There was an incessant firing of muskets and petards; which proved that the gunpowder had not been all expended upon King Otho. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 In setting this petard he hadn’t got out of range quickly enough. The Pagan Madonna Chesterton used to have a grand time hoisting people on their own petards, and letting forth strings of epigrams at the expense of those from whom he differed, and only incidentally revealing his own position. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study The only other occasion on which I have known a Moor to be hoisted with the petard of his own contemptuous fanaticism was an experience of my own. Pan-Islam “To be sure I do not know the Highland custom in the matter,” she was continuing complacently when Aileen hoist her with her own petard. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 To the vigor and despair of the insurgents, the fortress replied from its walls and towers by petards, showers of sulphur and boiling pitch and the discharges of artillery. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 They rallied Jack not a little on his grand effort at heroism and Rand even dug up an old schoolbook quotation about an engineer who had been hoist with his own petard. The Boy Scouts on the Yukon And I decided to see him hoisted by his own petard. The Prairie Mother The man who fixes and fires a petard, a service of great danger. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. When the conspirators thus beheld themselves “hoist with their own petard,” the first feeling among them was less fear for their safety than awe at the just judgment of God. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot She was still hoist with her own petard: the pitiful belief in the potency of her absurdities. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg I thought to help him, and carefully pushed it with a small reed until it rolled over on the sand, and he with it, innocuously hoist by his own petard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Moral.—It is rare sport to see the Coroner hoist with his own petard. Humour of the North Why, nothing more or less than to hoist these German blokes with their own petard, so to speak. War and the Weird She was labouring under an uncomfortable sense of being hoist with her own petard—an uncomfortable memory of a certain warning of her husband's, delivered at Murewell. Robert Elsmere How easy it is for a man to become an unspeakable villain, and how nicely this one was hoisted with his own petard! Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude The galleon was much larger than the Centurion, had a crew of five hundred and fifty men, and thirty-six guns, besides twenty-eight pidreroes or petards, each of which carried a four-pound ball. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Thus was the Hon. J. H. "hoist by his own petard," the first man to fall by this expensive military company. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Happily they could still gain a few minutes further north on the condition of breaking up the ice with huge clubs and petards. The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras They had had visions of dire jests and grievous humiliations: of finding themselves suddenly astride the bare backs of berserk mules, or hoisted by blazing petards, or douched with mysterious cascades of icy water. Pipefuls Both warriors shot backward as if discharged from a petard, disappearing from view down the slope into the big drifts at the foot. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North If a friendly hand had not pulled me back, I should have run on to the petard which drove in the second gate. In Kings' Byways Poor man, he had been hoisted by his own petard. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 "The engineer would have been hoisted with his own petard" probably, if they had attempted the arrest. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner I never saw such a petard of a man; I think the devil was in him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) “Yes: that was being hoist with your own petard, Mr Engineer,” cried Vane, merrily. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias Two men with a petard—then a strange invention—led the way through the gloom, attended by ten picked soldiers. In Kings' Byways “It may end in a mistake, and we don’t want to be hoist with our own petard.” Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea “What shall we do with the powder, then?” asked Uncle Bob; “save it to hoist some of the scoundrels with their own petard?” Patience Wins War in the Works “A terrible mistake, father; but, to be quite fair, it was all my doing, and I was hoist with my own petard.” Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land A few seconds afterwards a series of sharp explosions took place, which told us that these men had been the bearers of grenades or petards with which to blow open the door. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Then St. Martin sprang forward, and by his side Captain Robert, who had fixed the first petard. In Kings' Byways "Hoist with his own petard," an ancient phrase signifying that one's carefully laid scheme has exploded, had truly graphic meaning in the old days when everybody knew what a petard was. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Poor man! he had been hoisted by his own petard. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer Its bursting would not hurt her with the world, but would be a discovery that she was purely and essentially Protestant, and would be really the "hoisting of the engineer with his own petard." Apologia pro Vita Sua He spoke solemnly, laughing in his sleeve at the cleverness with which he was turning his enemy's petard against him. The Long Night Captain Robert lay scarcely fifteen paces from us, and by his side the hammer, spike, and petard he had carried. In Kings' Byways Furthermore, as one would guess, hanging a petard was a hazardous occupation; it went out of style in the early 1700's. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Another submarine has failed to find a safe victim in a trading ship, but has been hoisted with its own sea petard. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers As it was, the Confederate commander, who was the only foreign officer on board, "had been hoisted by his own petard." A Victorious Union It cut off the engineer from the outer gate, of which the keys were at the Town Hall, and against which in another minute, another sixty seconds, he had set his petard. The Long Night Was it so wrong to hoist the engineer with his own petard? English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 Since the petard fired no projectile, it was hardly a gun. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America The widow striving to use this knowledge for purposes not far removed from blackmail, is neatly hoist with her own petard, and the slight play ends with the cordial reconciliation of the Selbys. Charles Lamb He was hoist with his own petard, but his burden grew lighter all the same. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie In one place a house, fired by the petard employed to force the door, was actually alight. The Long Night "You don't think he was 'hoist with his own petard, then?" suggested Torry. Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns Sinking the German U-Boats Small petards weighed about 50 pounds; the large ones, around 70 pounds. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Now, truly, I had hanged my petard well and 'twas plain the shock of it had gone far to shatter the wall of confidence our enemies had builded on the field of Camden and elsewhere. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The petards were taken out from beneath a heap of stones, where Hugh had hid them, and were fixed on the piece of timber, one end of which was just afloat in the stream. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars This was alone made possible by the Canal, and Ismaïl to his chagrin found himself "hoist with his own petard." The Future of Islam Fowler too would be hoist by his own petard. The Enchanted Canyon But on a well-barred, double gate the small petard was useless, and the great petard would break only the fore part of such a gate. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard. Familiar Quotations Gerald would take two petards, which weighed some twenty pounds each, to his tent, one by one. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars What if Don Mike has hoisted you on your own petard? The Pride of Palomar He gives us a long account of the psychical disturbances at B——; noises between his bed and the ceiling, like continuous explosion of petards, so that he could not hear himself speak, &c. &c. The Alleged Haunting of B—— House When all was ready, the petardiers seized the two handles of the petard and carried it to the troublesome door. Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Well, I'm hoist with my own petard this time, though I wouldn't confess as much to him if my life depended on it. Austin and His Friends In them the hooks were inserted, and from these the petards were suspended by ropes, so as to lie against the sides of the boats, an inch only above the water's level. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars What right has any one to explode a petard in the midst of sweet sociality, and blow every thing like sequence and sentiment sky-high? Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature She was hoist with her own petard and covered her confusion by a light laugh which was most unconvincing. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment She had been caught in the net of her own stratagem—hoist by her own petard. The Real Adventure It is this kind of an artificer that Shakespeare refers to when he playfully suggests that "'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard." Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 I have seen my cousin Gerald, but he will not let me have the petards unless he knows for what purpose they are to be used. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars The would-be assassin was "hoist with his own petard," leaving the public mystified as to the motive of the outrage. The Awakening of China At the noise of the petard, forty men armed and about two hundred arquebusiers ran almost naked to dispute our entry; meantime the bells rung the alarm, to warn everybody to stand to their defence. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees It was necessary to use a petard to lay bare the treasure, and no one had the necessary skill. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 They left behind them thirty-four cannon and six mortars, with petards, scaling-ladders, tents, ammunition, baggage, intrenching tools, many of their muskets, and all their sick and wounded. Montcalm and Wolfe The log was not very large, although of considerable length, and with the petards upon it, it showed but little above water. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars A tremendous explosion; the wide doors behind are burst in by a petard; the barn falls, and discovers a view of York. Cromwell Mr. Chamberlain prepared an educational bombshell, but Mr. Healy hoisted the engineer with his own petard. Sketches in the House (1893) The tenacious, elastic sand defied all tools or leverage: no petard could blast so fickle and treacherous a substance. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 The besiegers had now no real chance of success unless they could carry the place by storm, to which end they had provided abundant scaling-ladders as well as petards to burst in the gates. Montcalm and Wolfe The petards and other objects were placed on the boom, upon which Rupert, as the lightest of the party, crept, holding in his hand a cord fastened round the log. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars Life in Venetia must be very dull: no more explosion of pasteboard petards; no more treason in bouquets; no more stealthy inscriptions on the walls—it must be insufferably dull. Italian Journeys They had discharged but a petard, but a mine to effect a breach. If Winter Comes But she was found, and the petard, like a huge axe wielded by a giant's arms, cut into her treasure-house and rescued it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 To hoist the Briton with his own petard is particularly sweet to the German mind.... Mr. Britling Sees It Through "Forward!" cried he, and rushed on through the midst of the fire, and arrived just as the soldiers had fired the first petard. The Forty-Five Guardsmen He was hoist with his own petard, in short; and stood there nonplussed, vexed alike at himself and at circumstance. Deadham Hard It drew the attention of one of Cromwell's generals, and he dispatched a party with cannon and petards to reduce the place, whilst he marched on to join Cromwell in enterprises of more importance. A Perilous Secret In this case the unlucky engineer was "hoist with his own petard," for while he stood adjusting one of his engines, it went off, and shot him into the town. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 To hoist the German with his own petard is particularly sweet to the British mind. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Then we will break it down with petards and go in. The Forty-Five Guardsmen She was now hoist with her own petard, for, being heavily made up, she could not and would not follow the leader. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections By this time the town was in alarm, and the drums beat to arms, but it was too late, for by the help of a petard we broke open the gate, and entered the town. Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. Was he now to be hoist for some unknown reason by his own petard? By Advice of Counsel She is looking on now to see us hoist by our own petard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Then came the artillery, and with the loss of thirty men succeeded in placing their petards under the gate. The Forty-Five Guardsmen When we had finished, it would have puzzled a colonel of engineers to make a better petard. The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Four sappers at length laid a petard beneath the gate at the other side of the bridge. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction We still look after their legal safeguards long after they have hoisted them with their own petards. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 And every time the capitalist tries to hoist himself with his own petard, the administration smothers the blaze with a block of interest- bearing bonds. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 If they could not take the city by surprise, they might, as we have seen the king of Navarre do at Cahors, fill up the moats with fascines and burst open the gates with petards. The Forty-Five Guardsmen Caw will be interested to know that it was Bullard who was here last night with his petards. Till the Clock Stops "Certainly," she said, shaping her own voice into a petard against the little clang of surprise in the voice of her vis-à-vis. Star-Dust Let you be hoist by the same petard that's always lying around to hoist me! It Happened in Egypt It is a mental impossibility, of course; but perhaps my good friend "Dorry" can be persuaded to attempt it—to hoist himself with his own petard. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 "It is the fusee, as we martialists call it," replied the knight; "that is, Phoebe, the match which fires the petard, and which is longer or shorter, according to the distance." Woodstock; or, the Cavalier I begin to suspect, also, that kitchen-gossip is a mischancy petard, and rather more than apt to hoist the engineer who employs it. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking But, like others handling petards, Seymour Michael grew somewhat careless, and forgot that the wrong man is sometimes hoist. From One Generation to Another She was laboring under an uncomfortable sense of being hoist with her own petard—an uncomfortable memory of a certain warning of her husband's, delivered at Murewell. Robert Elsmere Don't you see that he is hoist with his own petard? A Traveler from Altruria: Romance Take care, good Phoebe," said the knight; "you will prevent my using my weapon if you hang upon me thus.—The bungling fools cannot fix their petard without the use of torches! Woodstock; or, the Cavalier He was to be hoist with his own petard. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV He has his regular walks on the Boulevards and in the Palais Royal, where he sets his watch by the petard fired off by the sun at midday. The Crayon Papers He lives in history as one who, better than in Hamlet's illustration, was "hoist with his own petard," the petard in his case being a gallows. Short Stories Old and New It looks now like certain busybodies in this community had over-stepped themselves and been hoisted up by their own petard. The Boss of Little Arcady "They are fixing a petard," said the knight, with great composure. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier At the same time, the assailants fired briskly on them through the loopholes, and, placing a petard under the walls, threatened to blow them into the air. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Then the two boy aeronauts turned their back on the enemies who had been hoisted by their own petard. Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane The first thing to be done was to depose the other two prophets, Robins and Tannye, and to hoise them on their own petard. The Coming of the Friars How Californians make their money and how they spend it is a topic which in handling requires great subtlety of intellect, a fine delicacy of expression and much diplomacy, otherwise twenty-three petards! Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers It's rather hoisting him on his own petard, as it were. The Long Chance It was a case of the engineer "hoist with his own petard!" The Midnight Passenger : a novel Well, after the war was over, Grandpa he went back to his castle to rest up for the next war, and to have his sword sharpened and his petard fixed. Mr. Bingle I travel in the same security as with a lighted petard, which I may expect to explode every moment. Peveril of the Peak Fortunately, perhaps, for Augustus Adolphus he found the dormitory empty, and was able to remove from his person the most obvious evidences of one hoisted by his own petard. Many Kingdoms The boys were deeply interested in examining the effects of the explosion, and in the explanation I gave them of the proper way to manage a petard. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 The mask of the petard just grazed our heads, and one side of the gate lay on the ground. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville The writer remembers being nicely hoisted by his own petard on a similar occasion: "What do you do for a living?" he asked. Courts and Criminals Even as they went I was conscious of exclaiming,—remembering the saying about the engineer being hoist by his own petard, 'Atherton's Magic Vapour!' The Beetle The leader of the Imperialists, who carried a petard, advanced boldly to the edge of the ditch. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus They have, presumably, plenty of powder, probably some live shells, petards, and what-not, that will make short work even of those oaken doors. A Rock in the Baltic No one ever pities her when she is 'hoist with her own petard!' Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 The bladder senna filled the air with the noise of its bursting petards. Piccolissima The boys were deeply interested in examining the effects of the explosion, and in the explanation I gave them, of the principle, and proper way to manage a petard. Swiss Family Robinson In spite of the tremendous fire poured upon them from the wall they reached the gate, and the two colonels fixed the petards to it and retired a few paces. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus He can thus hoist Destiny with its own petard, and, besides, being eumoirous, can spend a month or two in a peculiarly diverting manner. Simon the Jester Read us Tom's letter, confute the engineer, hoist with his own petard.' The Trial Meanwhile the Bolshevist picks and petards are at work on the foundations of both buildings; and though the Bolshevists may be buried in the ruins, their deaths will not save the edifices. Heartbreak House By hoisting the rogue with his own petard. Captain Brassbound's Conversion Ramparts of earth and stockades were hastily thrown up, and the gates were backed by piles of rubbish to prevent them being blown in by petards. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus The gun-powder exploded much too soon, and poor Miss Thorne felt that she was blown up by the strength of her own petard. Barchester Towers The senators found themselves hoist with their own petard, however, for the lower house, made up largely of Grangers, accepted this bill rather than let the matter of railroad legislation go by default. The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics They might fling one of their petards in at the window, if you were there; but otherwise, never, in this world. Put Yourself in His Place The gunpowder exploded much too soon and poor Miss Thorne felt that she was blown up by the strength of her own petard. Barchester Towers The parapet tottered, and then with a tremendous crash fell, burying five or six of the Imperialists and the petard beneath the ruins. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus The Gates of the Town, under axe and petard, can make little resistance, to Leopold's Column or the other two. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 Some years ago, the foreign tea-merchants at a large port, in order to curb excessive charges, decided to hoist the Chinese tea-men, or sellers of tea, with their own petard. The Civilization of China I had anticipated an affair with men only—a secret assault or a petard expedition. A Gentleman of France "That dog ate his own stomach," said Cetewayo grimly, thereby indicating in native fashion that the biter had been bit or the engineer hoist with his petard. Finished "They will try and blow it open with petards," Malcolm said. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus A third had defended his old house till Fairfax had blown in the door with a petard. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 They stared in silence, for their breath was gone at his audacity; but one horrid laugh exploded on the floor like a petard. The Cloister and the Hearth It is Monday, the 14th of September 1788: Rascality assembles anew, in great force, in the Place Dauphine; lets off petards, fires blunderbusses, to an incredible extent, without interval, for eighteen hours. The French Revolution I was appalled; yet to think of Therese being hoisted with her own petard was like a turn of affairs in a farce. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes Such is the illogical quality of humanity that Holsten, fresh from work that was like a petard under the seat of current civilisation, saw these changes with regret. The World Set Free Municipalities there are, paralyzed by War-minister; Commandants with orders to stop even Federation Volunteers; good, when sound arguments will not open a Town-gate, if you have a petard to shiver it! The French Revolution Swept are the Pyrenees; Town after Town flies up, burst by terror or the petard. The French Revolution On Monday morning the explosion of petards began: and now it is near midnight of Wednesday; and the 'wicker Mannequin' is to be buried,—apparently in the Antique fashion. The French Revolution
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