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Before he could disencumber himself from the body another Hadendowa rushed at him with uplifted spear. Tom levelled his pistol at him, and pressed the trigger; but the weapon did not explode. He had already fired all the barrels.
The balloon is never entirely filled, for the atmospheric pressure diminishing as it ascends, allows the hydrogen gas to dilate, in virtue of its expansive force, and, unless there is space for this expansion, the balloon is sure to explode in the air.
I would have bet on three of a kind against him sky-high, even if he had passed the draw. He drew aside the curtain of the shibrayah gingerly, as if he expected a trick mechanism that might explode a bomb in his face. "Mashallah! Where is the woman?" he exclaimed. I found out then that I was right as to the way to play that supposititious poker hand.
"She'll lie a point nearer the wind than a man has a right to expect of his own married wife, sir. But," he would add, "all I say is we're not home again, and I don't like the cruise." The squire, at this, would turn away and march up and down the deck, chin in air. "A trifle more of that man," he would say, "and I should explode."
Yet when the weight above mentioned is thrown across the two contact points, the current runs across the bridge, instead of through the resistance wire, and is then strong enough to heat the wire in the fuse and explode the torpedo.
Besides, we did not care much for the sports in which boys usually explode their superfluous energy. I preferred a walk and a talk with Charley to anything else. I may here mention that these talks had nearly cured me of castle-building. To spin yarns for Charley's delectation would have been absurd. He cared for nothing but the truth. And yet he could never assure himself that anything was true.
A secret sometimes makes a girl feel like she would explode worse than a bottle of nitroglycerin, though it makes me nervous even to write the word when I think of what might have happened to Lovelace Peyton if I hadn't had a father who is cool enough to keep his head at all times and handed that quality down to me.
Although the flames were blazing so fiercely, and had obtained such a complete hold upon the ship that the magazine was expected to explode at any moment, and although the enemy, taking full advantage of the disaster, was concentrating a terrific fire upon that part of the ship where her crew were mustered, awaiting their turn to go down over the side into the boats which were waiting to receive them, there was not a trace of hurry or confusion.
What harm is there in a quiet game of whist?" "Well, I do not know that there is anything wrong in a 'quiet game of cards, per se" commenced Hemstead, didactically. "'Per' who?" asked Lottie, innocently. Just then the party at the other table seemed to explode, but they made it appear as if the cause came from themselves. "Yes, yes, nephew, speak English.
"When that charge is set off it will blow the ice away on either side and we shall float freely once more." "Wonderful," exclaimed the professor. "I had better get my deep sea net. The explosion may kill some curious fish when it goes off." He hurried away to get the article in question, while the boys stood beside Captain Hazzard, who was about to explode the heavy charges.
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