We must have powder to blow open the gate.

I expect that any of the doors we may find locked, inside, will give way if a pistol is fired through the keyhole; but to blow in the main gate of the prison we must get powder, and a good deal of it.

That, however, is a matter in which we shall find that money will be of use.
"There are too many officials in the prison for us to hope to get any one out, without eight or ten being in the plot; and as these, we hear, are all fellows who are heart and soul with the Convention, it is not possible to attempt it in that way.

But when, as you know, the Blues succeeded in bribing a Vendean to tamper with our guns, it ought not to be such a difficult thing to bribe one of these fellows, who is in charge of ammunition, to let us have a barrel or two of powder." "That certainly seems to hold out a prospect of success, so far, Leigh.

I have never been able to understand your confidence in success, but certainly the first indication of your plan seems to promise well.