Removing the wads from the latter with my knife, emptied the powder on a flat rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 29] Reference

Removing the wads from the latter with my knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 29] Reference

He pawed down through the wads, squeezing here and there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amends '82: Part Two] Reference

Selvagee wads are made by the wad-machine at the Navy Yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

In fact, American CEOs are raking in big, huge, fat wads of cash.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference

"It was like bouncing paper wads off a steel helmet," he recalled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dead In the Water] Reference

Hard wads are not to be used in firing salutes, nor are port-fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

I didn't study my geography more and shoot paper-wads less, when I was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference

The first men had slapped their wads of sticky congealed sap against the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deathworld] Reference

He picks up the dollar bill, holds his hand out palm up, and wads the bill tight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Jeans and Black Leather] Reference

I saw a sophomore dance a jig to the music of a dogwood sprout for throwing paper wads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference

Sections of one-third or one-fourth of these wads will answer as well, in case of need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Hopefully one day you will grow up and realize that you were being the wads, dork wads.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2009] Reference

The paunchy dictator-in-wait-ing sported a diamond-studded Rolex and carried wads of cash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heirs To The Kingdom] Reference

To make butter balls, put wads of the butter to be used into ice water so as to make them hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables] Reference

"I have nearly a pound powder, some wads, caps, and 'bout two pounds of shot left," said Regnar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference

And with less idle time, he says they're not fighting as much or making nearly as many spit wads.    From Wordnik.com.  [School Buses Now Take Wireless Internet For A Ride] Reference

Many of the wads of bills still had the original bank bands around them; some were moldy with age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Futon] Reference

What did the fellow do but send back the card-board wads, saying he had ordered 9's, and giving us.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road"] Reference

The card-board wads were worth about 33 cents, and the express charges on them back were 25 cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road"] Reference

Ten selvagee wads for shot and shell | On the breast-piece of the carriage, guns | strung on a pin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Mary, who had been unwrapping wads of newspapers, produced a bottle of milk which she gave the baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference

Soon enough, Zimbabweans were back to carrying wads of them, briefcases full of them, plastic bags of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Billionaires] Reference

 Ruth carries always a small bottle of nitroglycerin; and tissues, wads of tissues; two Tums (for calcium, she tells me).    From Wordnik.com.  [Transport] Reference

As victims lose their memory and reasoning ability, their brain tissues become clogged with wads of sticky debris known as amyloid plaques.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Alzheimer's Advance] Reference