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At the latter place I was surprised to find some graves of British soldiers who had fallen there in the earlier part of the war. Also I had one exciting experience at Fontaine-les-Cappy. There was a large grenade dump near our camp, and, just as I was passing it, an explosion took place.
"Do they send such things as that through without cratin'?" says I to a guy behind the chicken wire, jerkin' me thumb at Mr. Sleuth. "What's the label on him?" "That's Mr. Hinkey Tolliver, special officer," says he. "Better look out or he'll break a hand grenade on that still alarm of yours." "Ah, back to the blotter!" says I. "Who gave you any license to make funny cracks on my Mrs.
Up to their two long death-dealing batteries, the trained men of the Serapis stood and toiled in mechanical magic of discipline. They tended those rows of guns, as Lowell girls the rows of looms in a cotton factory. The Parcae were not more methodical; Atropos not more fatal; the automaton chess-player not more irresponsible. "Look, lad; I want a grenade, now, thrown down their main hatchway.
When I tell you that these soldiers say, "Men who have not been at Verdun have not seen the war yet," and then add that the life of the 118th here looks like a long picnic, and that they make play of their work, play of their grenade practice, which they vary with football, play of their twenty miles hikes, I give you leave to laugh at my way of seeing the war, and I'll even laugh with you.
He was an adept in the tracking of his fellow-beings, and it was not long before he was quietly following Mok and Cheditafa, keeping at some distance behind them, but never allowing them to get out of his sight. In the course of a moderate walk he saw them enter the Hotel Grenade. This satisfied the wandering Rackbird.
In front about thirty yards away was a deep pit, mostly full of water, which had been excavated by innumerable grenades thrown into it. The other seven men took refuge behind the second wall, until it was their turn to throw. Before the grenade was thrown the officer had to blow two blasts on his whistle.
Applied to anything and everything. Bomb A hand grenade. Bully beef Corned beef, high grade and good of the kind, if you like the kind. It sets hard on the chest. Carry on To go ahead with the matter in hand. Char Tea. East Indian derivation. Chat Officers' term for cootie; supposed to be more delicate. Click Variously used. To die. To be killed. To kill.
When the day's reports are in, all along the front, there is a man, expert in the meaning of things, who boils them down for that cold official digest which tells us that "There was the usual grenade fighting at . We made appreciable advance at ," &c. The original material comes in sheaves and sheaves, where individual character and temperament have full and amusing play.
The conflagration hazard in Boston's congested district is not a thing one can exactly calculate, but it would be difficult to overestimate its gravity. . . . There's your grenade, Mr. Wilkinson." Wilkinson leaped to his feet. "I see it," he cried. "Leave it to me. It's as good as done. It's merely a question of time." "What are you going to do?" asked Cole, curiously.
He grabbed Sarnax by the arm and pointed. "Thermite," the Assassin whispered. "The ceiling's got six inches of spaceship-insulation between it and the floor above; it'll take them a few minutes to burn through it." He stooped and pushed on the barricade, shoving it into the room. "Keep back; they'll probably drop a grenade or so through, first, before they jump down.
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