Meanings of play with gunpowder in English

Our most exciting sport, however, was playing with gunpowder.

Next to playing with fire, I do not know anything so bad as playing with gunpowder.

She looked at him a little impatiently, as if he were a child playing with gunpowder and unaware of its potentialities.

While spending a holiday at home in Lisburn he was playing with gunpowder, when some of it unexpectedly exploded in his face.

He grew up in Denmark, which long ago banned fireworks, and spent his childhood tempting fate by playing with gunpowder, bottles, and tubes.

Her tastes are all masculine; she loves dogs, horses, and riding; all day long she is playing with gunpowder, making fusees and other artificial fireworks.

He took several turns about the room, mastered himself, and speaking through his teeth said quietly, There be some fools that enjoy playing with gunpowder.