July 3rd purchase, perhaps

Usage examples of firecracker.

Calder who was new to the town and had gone bang like a ladyfinger with some of him left, like those little firecrackers that never quite went all up.

Starflash was a shotgun-fired grenade built of seven to twelve submunitions that exploded like a string of powerful firecrackers.

A string of firecrackers went off less than a block away, adding to the general tumult.

Ballantine, if you had a child whose paternity you had to deny, if you felt guilty about that and wanted to do something extra for that child, what better way than to give her a firecracker to beat all firecrackers and let her light it when and if she saw fit?

They both jumped as whistles blew and firecrackers exploded and the sound of cheering filled the street.

When they hit the water, and part of them hit the plane, there was a rippling roar as if a bundle of firecrackers had been lighted and tossed.

When Firecracker was sure she was gone, he reached down into the recesses of his bedsheets and pulled out a crumpled roll of Teleprompter paper.

STRIPPED of the firecrackers, the fact seemed to be this: the President of Blanca Grande had heard about the attack on their plane and had come to offer his personal regrets that such a thing had happened.

But Hoxworth Hale, whose wife pointed out that the blindings and maimings were exactly what her bill had been intended to prevent, remarked glumly to The Fort: "We must never again outrage the firecracker vote.

When the cancerette burns down, it sets off the firecracker which in turn explodes and ignites the mixture.

A couple newer residents got discharged late in Gately's treatment for tossing firecrackers into the crowd of catatonics on the lawn to see if they could get them to jump around or display affect.

All the other thetes, coarcted into the tacky little claves belonging to their synthetic phyles, turning up their own mediatrons to drown out the Senderos, setting off firecrackers or guns he could never tell them apart and a few internal-combustion hobbyists starting up their primitive full-lane vehicles, the louder the better.

Trev screamed back at him, and then there was this loud BANG\ like a firecracker, only what it was, it was the heat exploding Marty Devereaux's bass drum.

All right, I'll give you credit for having had another firecracker equally big up your sleeve.

The still-glowing night at Dungeness almost a year ago when her surprise eighteenth birthday party had been broken into by the British--and by John--had begun such a dizzying change in everything for Anne, her need to share it today was like an Independence Day firecracker waiting to explode.