United States or Gambia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Even the enormous blocks of stone which had covered the mine had, by the force of the explosion, been hurled into the neighboring fields, so that many of them were afterwards dug out of the ground at a distance of a thousand paces from the bridge. Six vessels were buried, several had gone to pieces. But still more terrible was the carnage which the murderous machine had dealt amongst the soldiers.
Tumbling masses and irregular streamers radiating from a point subsequently shown by the Greenwich photographs to be the seat of a conspicuous spot, suggested the recent occurrence of an explosion, the far-reaching effects of which might be traced in the confused floccular luminosity of a vast surrounding region.
One day she has a last explosion over the snobby wedding presents and flies out of the drawing-room window, shouting, 'Freedom and truth! Near the house is a little dell full of fir-trees, and she runs into it. He comes there the next moment. But she's gone." "Awfully exciting. Where?" "Oh Lord, she's a Dryad!" cried Rickie, in great disgust. "She's turned into a tree."
Too frequently the hapless penitent was destroyed by the explosion he had provoked. Our two friends, however, might have written several large volumes had they given accounts of even a portion of the interesting matters concerning mines which they gathered up during their long and varied tour.
Superintending himself the construction of every boat, having a perfect practical knowledge of the business in its every detail, selecting his captains well and paying them justly, he has never lost a vessel by fire, explosion, or wreck. He possesses, in a remarkable degree, the talent of selecting the right man for a place, and of inspiring him with zeal.
Next, there came forward a young man with one eye, an explosion having shut up the other one for ever. He received his money along with that of the three men who worked in the same "pare" with him. He crumpled it up in the same reckless way as Matthew had done, also thrust it into his pocket, and walked off with an independent swagger.
Then came a final explosion "Look at her!" repeated Valerie; "she is so candid! At twelve years old she is still as innocent as a child in her cradle. You know that I trust her to nobody. Wouldn't one think her a little duchess who has always had a carriage of her own?" Then Morange reverted to his dream of fortune. "Well," said he, "I hope that she will have a carriage when we marry her off.
But unless you can hold like iron for that fraction of a second, you can't shoot and you never can shoot." "But I'm not excited now," she objected. "You haven't got full discipline of your nerves, just the same. You're a little afraid of the sound and the explosion, and you flinch back just a little movement of your hand when you pull the trigger.
Here, there, and everywhere could be heard the explosions of ammunition as the flames reached the loose piles of cartridges which each man had placed beside himself while firing on the fort; and, with the continuous flash and explosion of the shells as they plunged into the earth, the black silhouettes of the men and guns upon that background of smoke and flame, and the deep, orange glow of the reflected flames in the sky, the scene so indelibly impressed itself upon Frobisher's memory that he is not likely to forget it as long as he lives.
Captain Bulsted seized my hand. He was hot from a ride to fetch engines, and sang sharp in my ear, 'Have you got him? It was my father he meant. The cry rose for my father, and the groups were agitated and split, and the name of the missing man, without an answer to it, shouted. Captain Bulsted had left him bravely attempting to quench the flames after the explosion of fireworks.
Word Of The Day