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The high-velocity slug would go right through him, to explode in one of the struggling figures behind and the wrong one might get it. The Connie saw Rip's action and tossed his pistol aside. He, too, knew he couldn't fire. He reached into a knee pouch and drew out his space knife. He leaped for the Planeteer. Rip pulled frantically at his pistol.
But even this would not cause the powder to explode except it be confined behind a projectile, that sufficient pressure may be run up to make it burn in its own gases. Some curious experiments with smokeless powder may be tried with a shot gun.
The airship did not explode, but was forced to alight on the sea, her crew being captured by the Austrians. By December, 1915, and January, 1916, the official reports of the war in the air contained a continued account of activity.
The observer sees a puff of smoke from the deck of a destroyer and a quick splash of water obscures the view momentarily. "They have seen us and are firing." But the steamship is now within a mile, within fairly accurate torpedo range. An order rolls into the torpedo-room and the crew prepare for firing. In the meantime a shower of shells explode about the periscope.
At the same time Claude Towne, the "swell" of the company, exclaimed: "I'm not going to stay here and get this new suit spoiled by the oil." He was very careful of his attire. "Oh, the oil won't spray as far as this," the workman assured him. "How do they explode the glycerine?" asked Mr. DeVere.
The next morning, one of the rare instances in our years together, he claimed that he did not feel like getting up. But there were four important conferences that day to attend to, besides his work at college. He dressed, ate breakfast, then said he felt feverish. His temperature was 102. I made him get back into bed let all the conferences on earth explode. The next day his temperature was 105.
He was so engrossed with his task that he did not even notice their entry, indeed it was not till Pilbury had stepped behind him and clapped him suddenly on either side of the face, making his cheeks explode like a small balloon, and spilling the contents of his bottle all over the table, that he became aware that he had visitors.
The only thing that might endanger it would be a blast of dynamite." "Dynamite!" quickly exclaimed Mr. Alcando. "And who would dare to explode dynamite at the dam?" "I don't know who would do it, but some of the enemies of the United States might. Or someone who fancied the Canal had damaged him," the captain went on. "And who would that be?" asked Blake in a low tone.
Arabella knew that she could carry off the women, but such a proceeding would leave her father at the mercy of the wine; and, moreover, the probability was that Mrs. Chump would remain by him, and, sole in a company of males, explode her sex with ridicule, Brookfield in the bargain. So Arabella, under a prophetic sense of evil, waited; and this came of it. Mr. Pole patted Mrs.
Lefanu, early in 1812, 'we have all the comfort and independence of a home.... As to me, I am every inch a wife, and so ends that brilliant thing that was Glorvina. N.B. I intend to write a book to explode the vulgar idea of matrimony being the tomb of love.
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