Meanings of smell gunpowder in English

You will probably smell gunpowder before you get back.

If you smell gunpowder, you re in Cicero.

Did you ever smell gunpowder, Six-foot?

We may smell gunpowder yet.

Nikki could still smell gunpowder.

Do I smell gunpowder?

Even from fifteen feet away I could smell gunpowder, and I could see that the thing jamming the door open was a human hand.

Yanagisawa could almost smell gunpowder in the air as he and Lord Matsudaira poised on the narrow divide between verbal sparring and overt strife.

He put the muzzle to his nose, sniffed, smelled gunpowder.

His nails glitter, drenched in fairyshine, and he smells gunpowder.

He lay and smelled gunpowder mingling with the saltiness of the bay and the evening incense of the earth.

"So you want to smell gunpowder?" he said to Pierre.

"Yes, the miserable rascals always run away as soon as they smell gunpowder," said Thugut, indignantly.

The devil they is; why, I thought when I seen that ere feller stand up to be shot at, that he had smelled gunpowder afore.

"Do you wish to smell gunpowder?"

My readers will naturally feel curious to know whether on this, the first occasion of my " smelling gunpowder," I experienced any sensation of fear.