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"I will drive it myself," he ordered, "only send a man around with it immediately." "No, no, no," she cried, running toward him, you must not risk it. It is bad enough that we should risk our lives. But strangers must not. Think, Professor Kennedy. Suppose the bomb should explode at a touch! Had we not better call the police and let them take the risk, even if it does get into the papers?"
But, as this would not explode without the addition of some oxygen-bearing element, various oxygen-bearing salts were combined with it, such as nitrate of potassium, nitrate of ammonia, nitrate of baryta, etc. Also a great many of the first smokeless powders were made of low grade gun-cotton combined with nitro-glycerine in varying proportions.
I would not dare tell you all that went through mine that long afternoon. It was just about six o'clock when the first bomb that we could really see came over the hill. The sun was setting. For two hours we saw them rise, descend, explode.
When within a short distance he stopped and, quite oblivious to warnings and threats from the army, set himself to watching painstakingly the sputtering progress of the fire up the fuse, exactly as a small boy watches his giant cracker which he hopes to explode in mid-air. At what he considered the proper moment he straightened his powerful young body, and cast the sapling from him, javelin-wise.
It is of the essence of some inflammable matter to gather itself together, to ferment in the caverns of the earth, to increase its active force by augmenting its heat, and then explode, by the accession of other matter suitable to the operation, with that tremendous force which we call earthquakes; by which mountains are destroyed; cities overturned; the inhabitants of the plains thrown into a state of consternation; these full of alarm, unused to meditate on natural effects, unconscious of the extent of physical powers, stretch forth their hands in dismay, heave the most desponding sighs, utter aloud their complaints, and earnestly implore a cessation of those evils, which nature, acting by necessary laws, obliges them to experience as necessarily as she does those benefits by which she fills them with the most extravagant joy.
Then, abruptly, one of the trucks vanished in a monstrous, actinic flash of blue-white flame and a roar so horrible that it was not sound but pure concussion. The other truck keeled over and crashed from the blast, but did not explode. Men jumped from it. There must have been screamed orders, but Joe could hear nothing at all.
"There is not the slightest danger, aunt Nesta. It cannot explode without concussion. I have been carrying it about with me all the morning." He bestowed on the test-tube the look a fond parent might give his favourite child. Mrs. Pett was not reassured. "Go and put it in your uncle's safe at once. Put it away." "I haven't the combination." "Call your uncle up at once at the office and ask him."
I’m going to try to explode their gas cylinders if I can. The tocsin is the signal for our people in the salient." "You’re crazy!" remarked one of the airmen. "No; I’ll bluff it out. I’m to have a Boche uniform in a few moments." "You are crazy! You know what they’ll do to you, don’t you, Jim?" The bandaged airman laughed, but in his eyes there was an odd flicker like a tiny flame.
It will be an effulgent fact when he gains the summit." The others meantime had thrown themselves on the grass at the feet of their manifestly acknowledged leader, and looked up for Agostino to explode the last of his train of conceits.
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