You glow like a fusee whenever you see a young lady. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
Hancock was cleaning his sword and his fusee, and putting his accoutrements in order. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
Words are celebrated in vocabularic feats -- Page 117 alone delights a word-lover with "syzygy," "invigilator" and "fusee.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom McCarthy's "C," reviewed by Samantha Hunt] Reference
This dilemma was overcome by Vaughan offering a fusee. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Ride in Iceland] Reference
Then a soldier, leaning down, applied fire to the fusee. From Wordnik.com. [An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet] Reference
I kept wrapped in tissue paper and hidden in my fusee-box?. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Secrets] Reference
"What did you say he was?" asked Mr Halgrove, lighting a fusee. From Wordnik.com. [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference
The man picked out a fusee, struck it, and bent his head to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Doings of Raffles Haw] Reference
"Enid Walker lighted a fusee?" repeated Miss Hall, almost incredulously. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life] Reference
Every time he hit the bell he lit a fusee, and Mr. Sturm looked at his watch. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders] Reference
In my absence the hunters had killed Some Deer & a Elk, one fusee found &c. &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference
"What steps have you taken?" asked Ezra, striking a fusee and lighting a cigar. From Wordnik.com. [The Firm of Girdlestone] Reference
For a long time did this shower of sparks descend, spraying continuously like a fusee. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Episode] Reference
Sprang upon his feet and discharged the contents of his fusee into the back of his antagonist. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
"That Parsee smells fire like a fusee; and smells of it himself, like a hot musket's powder-pan.". From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
The crude fusee of Zech had to be perfected by Gruet, another Swiss clockmaker, and by still others. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and the Clockmakers] Reference
There we tarried for a long half-hour (told on my watch by a fusee-light), and still no signs of our companions. From Wordnik.com. [Border and Bastille] Reference
Many inventions were put forward by chemists before the perfecting of the common match, the wax vesta, and the fusee. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Household Curios] Reference
It was very dark, and the lamps were going out, but he took his fusee-box from his pocket and struck a light hastily. From Wordnik.com. [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference
About sunset an unfortunate emu came to water, and unconsciously approached us so near that Flood shot it with his fusee. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
Instead of a fusee and chain, it has a unique drive-shaft system that transfers power from the mainspring to the movement. From Wordnik.com. [Luxist] Reference
Frenchman time to prepare, he fired off in the air the fusee which he held in his hand, as a signal for the action to begin. From Wordnik.com. [The Privateersman] Reference
Riding to the farthest extremity of the sands, he cast his own fusee from him, and returned to the point whence he had started. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
One reason was because she clung stubbornly to the old-fashioned fusee long after other people had abandoned it for the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and the Clockmakers] Reference
The leading men of each clan were well armed with broadsword, target, and fusee, to which all added the dirk, and most the steel pistol. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
'I can hit him now,' said Callum, cautiously raising his fusee over the wall under which he lay couched, at scarce sixty yards 'distance. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
The leading men of each clan were well armed with broad-sword, target, and fusee, to which all added the dirk, and most the steel pistol. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
At the Gospel -- at the stroke of twelve, a match is applied to a fusee, and instantly the white dove flies along the rope, pouring forth. From Wordnik.com. [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference
He lay on his back, shot through the heart, his hand grasping a very handsome fusee, and with a look of defiance still on his countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Hurry] Reference
I stooped down, and, undoing the grasp with which the dead man's fingers held the fusee, took possession of it and ran after my companions. From Wordnik.com. [Hurricane Hurry] Reference
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