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Usage examples of short fuse.

Chief Engineer Patterson, a north-easterner from the Newcastle area, had a high pride in his undoubted skill, a temper with a notoriously short fuse and a rooted aversion to being questioned about his activities by anyone as lowly as a third officer.

He wired each stick of malglinite with a short fuse, then joined all eleven to a long length with electrician's tape and strung the long fuse back into the house, being careful to slip the fuse into the crack beneath the side door that opened onto the breezeway and then relocking it.

He would be dead, if the short fuse on that stick of dynamite hadn't been damp and decayed,- and he would most definitely have been dead, if Lord Malinari had so much as suspected it!

In moments he had loaded the first of the saltpeter-impregnated bundles he had prepared, lit the short fuse he had devised, steadied the sling in his two hands, and given the order to throw.

He had a short fuse and it took him a moment to get his temper back under control.

All his life Ryan Cawdor had been plagued by a short fuse on his temper.

Johan tells me that after he has laid out all the bundles in the necessary places he only has enough wire left for a short fuse.

He's got an irritated man in there with such a short fuse I didn't trust the machines and nearly strip-searched him.

Even Rupert, famous for his caprice and short fuse with staff, had to pull her up repeatedly: 'Taggie O'Hara increases her vocabulary by learning a new word every day.