Some idea of the extent of the blasting operations may be formed from the fact that twenty-five barrels of gunpowder were exploded weekly, the total quantity used in forming this one excavation being about three thousand barrels.
There was an unremitting clank of hammers, grinding of machinery, and blasting of rock going on from morning to night.
The blasting and hewing of the rock were vigorously carried on night and day; and the engineer's practical experience in the collieries here proved of great use to him.
We're blasting stumps and grading bumps; Our arms and backs are sore, O!
The continued blasting on the upper road, near the "Point of Rocks," disturbs the colonies of squawking birds that dart into the forest depths like flashes of bright color.
We're going to make a sling of that big blasting mat and raise him out that way.
Take this blasting mat and get a couple of circus men to help you head a section of cable to each of the four corners.
It was Old Nanc loaded down with the heavy motor, blasting mat and tools.
Ask Dave Porter, the night foreman there, if you can borrow the largest and heaviestblasting mat he has.
And there'll be oodles of thermoconcentrate-fuel, andblasting explosives.
They found out how to make nitroglycerine, and use it for blasting and for bombs and mines, and they screw little capsules of it on the ends of their arrows.
Art and literature next suffered through the blasting censorship of their fanatical clergy.
Surely more eloquent and stupendous daring was never uttered than the blasting fulminations of this celestial rebel, who now stands, like a colossus of evil in the realm of good!
The flaming Seraph of Christianity, winged with truth and armed with the lightning sword of Jehovah and the blasting thunderbolts of Jupiter, sweeps triumphant through the whole drama.
But they were not allowed to warn her of the vulgarity and the nausea, the dreary deceptions and the blasting diseases of that life.
Blasting then does the rest] The age of the steam-engine is also the age in which the use of coal has become widespread, and the output of coal is a faithful index of industrial progress.
Holes are then drilled some distance above the groove for the insertion of the blasting charges, and the coal is blasted down.
They swept like a desolating pestilence through the land, blasting everything in their path, and pitilessly laughing at the ravages from which the native races have not yet recovered.
For in times of blasting heat the shadow even of the gourd is not to be despised.
Be that as it may, the semi-precious stones were very much sought after, and a great jewelry concern in the East had a crew of men working in these "forests" blasting the precious work of nature to pieces in search of the jewels.
Then her blasting discharges subsided to the power necessary to match exactly the Chicago's acceleration.
The thing was almost through Zone Two; was blasting into Zone One.
I know you'ld faine be gone: An Officer: To prison with her: Shall we thus permit A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall, On him so neere vs?
Heere is your Husband, like a Mildew'd eare Blasting his wholsom breath.
In the wild air when thou hast rolled about, And, like a blasting planet, found her out.
Think not that the present attainment in civilization is proof against this all-blasting tree, whose sap is poison and whose fruit is death.
It is the fate of despotism of every form, when it has developed the full strength of its all-blasting power, to awaken another power destined to trample it in the dust.
This act was designed to call into requisition all the appliances of the pope's machinery in blasting the happiness of two persons, whose worth was unequaled in the kingdom, and perhaps unsurpassed in the records of history.
You mustn't think of exposing her, and thus blastingher character.
And, regardless of my suffering and repentance, made known to Clara the blasting secret.
Carefully extracting this, they connected up the enemy's leads to one of theirblasting caps to insure non-detection for electric continuity, and then withdrew.
We fired the mine in the usual way, by means of blastingmachine from our dugout.
The Nazis, seeing him gun blasting upward, would instantly guess that the three of them were trying to skip through the hole in the huge formation of German wings.
I didn't go and investigate because I assumed that it was the bombers I had tagged blasting some Jerry ammo dump, or something.
The natural strength of this kopje had been most cunningly taken advantage of and increased by blasting a rock out here and there, and fortifying the weak places with sand-bags.
It seemed as if the enemy had pointed at us every gun in the fort; the bullets fell around us like hail, and for a moment the blasting tempest compelled us to take refuge behind a pecan-tree.
They also mine as near the top of the seam of coal as can be done safely, and so regulate the blasting that much less slack is made than by the heavy discharges.
By careless blasting an unnecessarily large amount of coal is blown into powder,--the slack which has not been marketed at all until within the last few years.
It was only the new "colonel" and his men blasting a rock in the mine!
The people in the mine are blasting rocks again, but we won't run away, will we?
