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"At the front door." "Throw over a hand-grenade," I said. There was a loud crash, and a scurrying of flying feet. The cowardly miscreants had fled. They were murderers, not warriors. All night long the awful Bedlam raged. The dark streets swarmed. Three times we had to have recourse to the hand-grenades.
He took it in the tummy, crawlin through the embrasure hand-grenade, I fancies. I was next man on the ladder." He was marching up and down, his hands swinging, seeming to smoulder almost in the gloom. "Pretty work in the battery, be God, as ever I see! One time we was bungin round-shot at each other across the casement, like marbles.
"Yes, Madam," was the answer I got in a tone of cold despair. It was thus that the feud with my family traditions was established. "Also, Rufus, please bring the saw with the hammer and the nails," was my last hand-grenade as I departed out the back door to the barn.
Looking quietly round, he deliberately produced and held up a hand-grenade, as it was called that is to say, a small bombshell and, before any one of the astonished spectators could stop him, lighted a match at one of the wax-candles, and applied it to the fusee of the shell. A shower of sparks came rushing from the hand- grenade, which would explode in a minute or two or even less.
"A private of Chateauroy's?" asked the Tirailleur, lifting his eye-glass to watch the Chasseur as he went. "Pardieu yes more's the pity," said Chanrellon, who spoke his thoughts as hastily as a hand-grenade scatters its powder. "The Black Hawk hates him God knows why and he is kept down in consequence, as if he were the idlest lout or the most incorrigible rebel in the service.
His wife in the flesh stood at his feet with a hand-grenade and a rifle, daggers and pistols in her belt. Her face was black with powder-smoke as the muzzle of the gun. She looked at Rinaldo once, and Rinaldo at her; both dropped their eyes, for their joy at seeing one another alive was mighty. Dead Austrians were gathered in a heap. Dead and wounded Milanese were taken into the houses.
Always under potential fire and for three years within range of the deadly machine gun and hand-grenade. "There seems little use for this searchlight tonight. The Austrians, if it be possible, are even more weary of the war, more discouraged and worse off than we.
It was just as he passed close to me that a hand-grenade struck him in the thigh and exploded. He fell forward on me, and I took him across my knee lest he fall into the water and be smothered. That is how it happened that only I overheard what he said to Ranjoor Singh before he died.
But it is all very far from our common thoughts and conceptions; that is why it sounds to most people like sentimental nonsense and 'poetry. No wonder Plato hated that word; since it is made a hand-grenade, in the popular mind, to fling at every truth. And yet Poetry 'gets in on us, too, occasionally, and accomplishes for "the woods and waters wild"
The gallant leader appeared to be as cool and composed as if he were at breakfast; with his drawn sword he pointed to the breach, and we heard him exclaim, "Suivez moi!" I felt jealous of this brave fellow jealous of his being a Frenchman; and I threw a lighted hand-grenade between his feet he picked it up, and threw it from him to a considerable distance.
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