blasting powder

The living, the tools, the blasting-powder, and the help eat it up faster than Orion's salary can grow.

I forgot the unhappy accident of the blasting-powder—all the mortifications and disappointments of my life.

Go over to Hodgen's about those tools; he has not sent them yet: and the blasting-powder, too, has not come down.

Well, sir, like a flash of blasting-powder this thought came to me.