slow-match

Making the slow-match slower, to let it travel that far, is easy enough.

Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

Under the berths in the cabin was a sliding box, forming a small locker, and in this locker Uncle Prudent put the dynamite and the slow-match.

Robur the Conqueror 2003

As the battle entered its fourth hour, around 10:15 P.M., Hamilton edged out along the footropes of the mainyard carrying a lighted slow-match and a leather bucket of grenades.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

It was mixed with small, sharp stones and, above it, balanced on a stave that Rifleman Hagman had carefully nailed into place, was a coiled strip of burning slow-match.

Sharpe's Christmas Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2003

It was mixed with small, sharp stones and, above it, balanced on a stave that Rifleman Hagman had carefully nailed into place, was a coiled strip of burning slow-match.

Sharpe's Christmas Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2003

As the battle entered its fourth hour, around 10:15 P.M., Hamilton edged out along the footropes of the mainyard carrying a lighted slow-match and a leather bucket of grenades.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

Match tubs were readied, half filled with water and capped with a pierced lid through which a slow-match hung in case a flintlock should break.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

While endeavouring to fire the charge, Salkeld, being shot through the leg and arm, handed the slow-match to Corporal Burgess, who fell mortally wounded, but not until he had successfully performed his task.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

Before leaving its precincts they had sprinkled coal oil over every square metre of carpet, window-hangings and tapestries, and the slow-match was not long in passing the fire to its inflammable timber.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

Didn't I say you couldn't play with even a slow-match like Roman, if you didn't want a fire later on?

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller