The air was filled with the crash of exploding shells and the clatter of broken glass, to the accompaniment of the distant booming of the hostile guns.
Forgetting that he held a clubbed rifle in his hand the lad took a flying kick; his boot caught the German major on the wrist, and the revolver, exploding harmlessly, went spinning a dozen paces away.
The thunder of the guns was ear-splitting, the crash of the explodingprojectiles appalling, yet the attention of the two lads was directed towards the scene that lay before them.
High above the roofs were the rapid, seemingly interminable brilliant flashes of the exploding shells, while away to the southward the sky was stabbed by the incessant lightning-like glare of the bombarding guns.
Upon general principles we think that explosives have not been purposely dropped, but that parts have been racked off, and have fallen, exploding like the things called "ball lightning.
Some other time I shall collect instances of "ball lightning," to express that they are instances of objects that have fallen from the sky, luminously, exploding terrifically.
Nor would orthodoxy be any better off in thinking of exploding meteorites and their débris: preciseness and recurrence would be just as difficult to explain.
Five shots were fired with both vessels racing their fastest, the Deutschland to escape and the Iphigenia to cut her off, and the fifth shell caught the German vessel right amidships, exploding with great violence.
But before long their bombardment began to tell; for slowly, here and there, exploding shells made great breaches in the defences that had been so heroically manned.
Hundreds upon hundreds had attempted to make a last stand, rallied by the Union Jack they waved above, but a shell exploding in their midst had sent them to instant eternity.
One of the German torpedoes struck the Polyphemus full on the starboard engine-room, and, exploding with devastating effect, blew in the side and bulkheads.
They were also getting to work in the Sound to clear away the mines, exploding heavy charges in the minefield, and sweeping for mines under the guns of the big ships.
Yet the cannonade continued, each shell that came hurtling through the air exploding with deadly effect and spreading destruction on all hands.
They were exploding shells; I had no doubt of that.
The sea boiled about them; the night seemed ablaze with the flashing of the great guns and the brilliant flame of exploding shells.
As he walked up from the dock there was a sudden eruption of voices from the house, a door banged, and the Taffy King began exploding verbal fireworks as he crunched the gravel under foot.
The picture of the whaling bark beating up to the dead and festering leviathan lying on the surface of the ocean to which the exploding gases of decomposition had brought the hulk, lived in her mind for days.
Japanese defenders ran out the rear of the blockhouse, their clothing on fire and ammunition exploding in their belts.
Van Etten mentions the filling of a cannon with water, the plugging it up, andexploding it by the action of fire applied to its trunnion.
A little farther and the road crosses an impromptu bridge thrown hastily over the great gaping crater torn by an exploding mine.
In the partially exhausted air-pump receiver, that decrease in the quantity of air should increase the expansive power of the remainder, and that the atoms should fly asunder with exploding force, is most unreasonable and impossible.
The physical fact is, the more the air is reduced, the greater is the quantity of influent medium of space, consequently of expanding and exploding force.
And then there were the wars and armed conflicts and vendettas and retributions and mines and missiles and exploding buses and the gas masks.
They knew that Israel lost its not to a demographically exploding Arab population coupled with endless acts of terrorism.
The secret desert-oasis field was now completely covered by clouds of dirty black smoke that were slashed every few seconds by the bright red and orange flames of newlyexploding bombs.
One second there were two planes hurtling downward, and the next they had locked wings, crumpled about each other like wet paper, and then completely disappeared in an exploding ball of flame and oily black smoke.
Bombs were exploding in Dave Dawson's brain, and his heart was pumping madly in his chest as he pushed up onto his hands and knees.
I went to see the audience and not to hear Professor Peterkin exploding theories.
In fact, I have myself completely routed countless unpoetic rivals by exploding in their ranks burning quatrains to the fair objects of our affections.
A cloudy, half-hysterical belief fought within him that nothing had happened; surely exploding death and stifling horrors had not torn this kindly hill, these humble workers!
At last an exploding shell carried off an arm, and with it his military usefulness to the Confederacy.
They have been exploding or blowing up popular theology for a number of years, and popular theology and Mr. Joseph Cook have been exploding them.
On Sunday, September 25, Sugert, an Indian chief of the neighborhood, assured by the priests and soldiers that no harm should come to him or his people by the noise of exploding gunpowder, came to the formal founding.
An exploding bomb could not have caused more consternation than the news brought by the parson.
In vacuo, it expands into vapour, which still possesses the power of exploding by heat.
But luckily we were saved, notwithstanding the shells were still exploding over us.
Mortar from the secesh playing all day, the shells passing over our heads, two exploding over us, but did no damage.
It was a sublime and terrible scene, the powder smoke gathering in a dark heavy cloud overhead, with the shells exploding with a continual flash over their forts, and now and then a mortar (shell) high in air could be seen.
Only, as shells when properly constructed burst somewhere, and these were sent over the heads of friends, their exploding short was dangerous, and after two or three attempts the experiment was dropped.
Then five rifles exploding together, like a volley, as a retreating Arab paused, and turned to fire a shot back; and this time the bullets found a billet, for he sank down in a heap.
One of them, Kelly, had been dazed by anexploding shell.
While Hobson was having his coffee on the morning of June 6th, he heard the whiz and crash of an exploding shell, then another, and another, and knew that a general bombardment of the fortress had begun.
This was done by exploding torpedoes on the outside of the vessel.
When the fire started by exploding shells reaching her hold she blew up with a terrific detonation and literally was split in twain.
Northwest of Kremenets, in the Ikva section, Austro-Hungarian engineers succeeded in exploding mines in front of the Russian trenches.
A violent bombardment immediately began and one of the exploding shells damaged the motor of the rear gondola.
Four or five 15-inch shells striking simultaneously against the armor of a battleship and exploding with a great burst of flame and smoke might well suggest to an eager and excited observer the total destruction of the ship.
The air was filled with clamor and frantic shrieks were sometimes heard above the incessant roar and cracking of exploding projectiles.
But for brave Curtis, who took a pinnace to the rescue of the poor wretches on the batteries, then in flames, and the ammunition of which was exploding every minute, more than 350 fresh victims must have gone to their last account.
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