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It will be a cannon, because the powder-magazine will have the same diameter as the chamber. It will be a howitzer, because it will hurl an obus. Lastly, it will be a mortar, because it will be pointed at an angle of 90°, and that without any chance of recoil; unalterably fixed to the ground, it will communicate to the projectile all the power of impulsion accumulated in its body."
A chorus of bugles burst out from the British camp, and a volley ripped through the blackness. "All right! Here goes!" said Brown. And he aimed down into the shadowy powder-magazine, and pulled the trigger.
There was nothing to do. Most of the theatres were shut. The streets were damp and dirty. It was all very well for the generals, appearing every night in the glare and glitter of the footlights; but for the rank and file the occupation of London spelt pure boredom. London was, in fact, a human powder-magazine.
"Yes, sir!" "You lie! He was blown up on the roof of the powder-magazine! I suppose every man who's gone mad from the heat will be saying that he's Brown!" "I'm Brown, sir! I had written orders from General Baines to enter Jailpore and rescue three women and a child." "Where are your orders?" "Lost 'em, sir, in the explosion." "For a madman, you're a circumstantial liar!
It was a crashing roar that literally shook the ground. It was as if, without prelude or warning, every house in England had fallen, every gun fired, and every powder-magazine blown up. Dale stood still, trying to steady himself after the shock, and ascertaining that his eyes had not been blinded nor the drums of his ears broken. Then he walked on slowly, watching the storm.
When about half-way down it, he stopped before a low door, cased with iron, which he opened, and showed that the recess was filled with large canvas bags. "Why, this is the powder-magazine," said Fenwolf. "I can now guess how you mean to destroy Herne. I like the scheme well enough; but it cannot be executed without certain destruction to ourselves."
It had once been a summer residence of the Emperor; it is now a powder-magazine, and stands, as our postilion informed us, on the same spot which, during the siege of Vienna in 1529, was covered by the tent of the Sultan Solyman. But we had passed this some time, ere the scenery began to improve. When such improvement did commence, however, it was very complete.
They had closed and barricaded the gates of the magazine; and they had posted six-pounders at the gates, loaded with double charges of grape, and laid a train to the powder-magazine. Messengers came in the name of Bahadur Shah to demand the surrender of the magazine, but no answer was returned.
These great rents appear rather to have been made by a rock than by the explosion of a powder-magazine." "There is not a rock in the channel!" answered the sailor. "I will admit anything you like, except the rock." "Let us try to penetrate into the interior of the brig," said the engineer; "perhaps we shall then know what to think of the cause of her destruction."
"If it's a joke, my lord," white-hot and thrilling, "it's a joke for which a good many men have died." He saw once more the lower deck of the Tremendous. He recalled the man in the powder-magazine, and old Ding-dong dying beneath the cliff. He thought of Piper outside that door. Nelson turned on the boy in a white blast. "I am Admiral Lord Nelson. You're Mr. Midshipman Carvell.
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