...Moscow itself was destined to be the great infernal machine,the sudden nocturnal explosion of which was to destroy the emperor andhis army...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...The explosion of the shells were accompanying their destructive brutality with a ferocious mockery, grotesquely disfiguring the human body...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... He drowsed for a few seconds, only to be awakened with the sensation that some horrible explosion was sending him through the air...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Suddenly they had to come out flying, for fire was breaking out with the violence and rapidity of an explosion...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... Outside the park, but a short distance from the mud wall, sounded a strident explosion like a stupendous blow from a gigantic axe—an axe as big as his castle...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...In spite of its thud, the explosion wrought horrible damage...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...Therapidity and ease with which the breeder accomplished this trickprovoked an explosion of enthusiasm from behind the palisade...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
...But the enemies pointed to the bull derisively persisting in theirprotests, and the whole plaza joined in a deafening explosion of hisses...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
... “That it was well!” said the captain, with an explosion...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...But at the moment the marechal was going to look at it, a loud explosion resounded from the ramparts, and called his attention towards the city...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... “We must hasten the explosion,” breathed the coming cardinal, “for D’Artagnan has discovered the existence of a plot...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
... Jenssen was stillmoving toward Malbihn at the time, but at the flash of the explosion hestopped...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...Before that spark could start an explosion Athelstan interfered...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...It was not, however, till next day, when we returned to examine the scene of the explosion, that we realized how narrowly we had escaped death or terrible injuries...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
... Yesterday we fired seventeen minute-guns, in obedience to an order from the Navy-Department for the melancholy death of its chief, by the explosion of the Princeton's gun...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
... There was always the danger of being blown to pieces by a premature explosion of powder, or of being crushed by falling slate...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...I calmlymet the gaze of those thousands, quietas so many barrels of gunpowder beforethe explosion...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
...One explosion follows another, and between them there is muchwren talk—a scolding chatter that is as great a relief to the birds'nervous energy as the exhaust from its safety valve is to a steamengine...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
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