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Lieutenant Adams, however, had other matters to occupy his attention. There was a genuine puzzle for him in the corridor. It was one of the lights that illuminated the corridor. Now one of these tungsten bulbs, when struck smartly, explodes with a report like that of a pistol. At this hour of the night, however, there were none passing save Naval officers on duty.
I have specimens of two kinds in my possession; one is circular, flat, and hollow, about six inches in diameter and an inch and a half thick, and fitted all round its edge with little hammers, which play upon a glass case inside filled with nitro-glycerine. Whichever way the bomb falls it is sure to strike one of these hammers, which explodes the nitro-glycerine.
As soon as the glare from one of the funnels could be seen through the tube reflected in the centre of the mirror, a trap was sprung in the floor of the car, and a shell charged with dynamite, which, it will be remembered, explodes vertically downwards, was released, and, where the calculations were accurately made, passed down the funnel and exploded in the interior of the vessel, bursting her boilers and reducing her to a helpless wreck at a single stroke.
It was only another instant, when Kennedy would have laid his hands on him. Suddenly he half turned, raised his arm and dashed something to the earth much as a child explodes a toy torpedo. I fully expected that it was a bomb; but, as a moment later, I found that Kennedy and I were still unharmed, I knew that it must be some other product of this devilish genius.
A crescendo or musical climax works gradually up step by step, and bar by bar, until it explodes in a perfect crash of vocal and instrumental tempest. The extraordinary choral effects produced in the performance of the Huguenots almost bewildered the hearers; and the wondrous lights and shades of sound given in many of the oratorios, are little behind the dramatic achievement.
But The Bradder met explosions with what my father called afterwards rank obstinacy, and the man who explodes is naturally angry if he cannot get some one to explode back at him. "The Warden, from what I have heard of him, would not approve of your opinions," my father said at last. "He does not meddle with our politics," The Bradder answered.
He dissolves in tears or explodes with laughter, according as the operator tells him he has cause for merriment or tears: and if he be assured that the water he drinks is Madeira wine or Java coffee, he has no misgiving that such is not the case.
"No, the effect is even more terrific. It explodes into powder," replied the scout. "And what happens to worlds that the magnetic ray touches?" inquired the scientist. "A corner of it touched the world we fought over, and the world shook," replied the colonist. "And the last weapon?" asked Sthanto, his voice soft now. "It seems a ghost.
The hunt was on again, and Commander Farragut leaned over to me, saying: "I'll chase that animal till my frigate explodes!" "Yes," I replied, "and nobody would blame you!" We could still hope that the animal would tire out and not be as insensitive to exhaustion as our steam engines. But no such luck. Hour after hour went by without it showing the least sign of weariness.
I saw one like that at the World's Fair." Pelty has the hood of Chet's machine open too and is right there with the retort courteous. "Is this an engine or a steam heater?" he asks. "What pressure does she carry?" "She never heats at all except when I run a long time on low," Chet says eagerly. "Oh, yes," says Pelty, "I never have to go into low much " "Gosh!" Chet explodes.
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