Crackers

Examples

• The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Prentice would pour out half a glass of what they call corn whiskey, and would dip the crackers in it and eat them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Squibs and crackers were thrown about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One thing I never could comprehend was that Tyler had a sideboard with liquors and generally crackers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Fire-crackers and grenades were also known to the Chinese and the Greeks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Such machines, costing nearly a thousand dollars, produce from forty to sixty barrels of crackers a day, enabling them to be sold at about 5 cents a pound at retail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They try to fasten on the bull their _banderillas_--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She brought crackers and we ate them and drank some vermouth. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There were crackers in it with the tenderest mottoes that could be got for money. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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