high-pressures

Updated: May 14, 2025

This he intended saying to his uncle in so many plain words; and so leaving our hero with his soul on fire, his mind bent on inflammables, explosives, high-pressures anything in fact that once inserted under the solid body of the senior Breen would blow that gentleman into space we will betake ourselves to his palatial home. The dinner being an important one, no expense had been spared.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero