To fly one hundred and fifty miles across the Channel and southern England, bomb London, and fly back again by midnight!
And a lady next to whom I sat at luncheon told me in a matter-of-fact tone that a bomb had fallen the night before in the garden of her town house.
One evening a fortnight later, while the lieutenant was holding forth in commendably general terms on the politics of the state to a speechless if not wholly admiring audience, a bomb burst in their midst.
No," replied Alison, dropping her bomb with cruel precision, "he has gone to Calvary.
One day a Zeppelin dropped a bomb on that village, whereupon the able-bodied males enlisted to a man, and he with them.
It's against the law to show light, and if a bomb falls in the street you'd be filled with glass.
Hong Foo--a star sapphire against his favorite Persian concubine--that the explosion of a lithium bombwill not initiate a chain reaction in the Earth's crust and so disintegrate this planet.
A lithium bomb is nothing for a country the size of Afghanistan to let off inside its own borders.
He quickly unslung it from round his shoulders, and presently had it lashed firmly in position against the curve of the Manco Capac's counter, the lower edge of the bomb being just about a couple of inches clear of the water.
He selected her paddle-box as the best place to which to attach the torpedo, and as she, too, was unprotected by any boom, he soon had the bomb fixed in position and the fuse lighted.
They then lashed the boom- end securely, and Jim, having slung the bomb round his shoulders, started to crawl out along the spar, while the Chilians sat on the other end to make it still more steady.
Pa said there ought to have been somebody thereto have taken that bomb up and throwed it in the sewer before it exploded.
He said that if he ever should see a bomb he would grab it right up and throw it away where it wouldn't hurt anybody.
One bomb exploded close beside a cottage, but fortunately no one was near at the time, so no casualties occurred.
One bomb certainly succeeded in claiming the back premises of an estaminet, but this was the full extent of its day's work.
The Taube, flying very high, tried to bomb the station, but succeeded in damaging only a cafe just outside it and smashing, by the concussion of the exploding bombs, every pane of glass within a quarter of a mile radius.
Next day they had found a bomb hole in a field on Gage's farm.
He could almost have wished the bomb had finished him.
We’re to be part of an Interceptor Control—catch planes that are coming to bomb us.
The admiral commanding your task force may report that a bomb seemingly passed down the smoke stack of the Idaho and the resulting explosion touched off the powder magazine.
Lastly the Swineherd spoke of the protection that the swine levels provided against the effects of an occasional penetrating bomb that chanced to fall in the crater of its predecessor before the damage could be repaired.
So you can hear the bomb explosions," suggested the Countess.
But why, then," I asked, "does the World Patrol continue to bomb the roof of Berlin?
The practical utility of aircraft for war was increasingly evident, and experiments in connexion withbomb dropping, wireless telegraphy, and gunnery had been continuous.
At Debreczin, Hungary, a bomb sent by post to the Greek Catholic Bishop Miklossy exploded and killed the episcopal vicar and the secretary.
The Archduke, who was Inspector-General of the Army, was on a tour of inspection, and as his car was driving to the town hall a bomb was thrown at him, but without effect.
Lord Ampthill opposed the Bill; the Bishop of London avowed himself a convert, in spite of the bomb placed under his throne (A.
Bomb outrage by militant suffragists in Edward the Confessor's Chapel in Westminster Abbey; the Coronation Chair and Stone were slightly injured.
On the same day a German aeroplane attempted to drop a bomb on Dover Castle, but missed its mark by some 400 yards, and, beyond a hole in a bed of cabbages and some broken windows, no damage was done.
The bomb was made of two domes of a large double cycle bell, wrapped round by wire, containing a chlorate explosive and iron nuts; and it was hung over the back of the Coronation Chair.
A German aeroplane dropped a bomb on Dover, missing the Castle; little damage.
As he spoke he leaned out from the chassis and hurled the bomb high in the air.
I never have killed anyone, and am not going to here, but anyone who tries to shoot me or bomb me or anything will lose both hands at the wrists just before he fires.
I found my manipulable field, but a bomb went off in my brain when I straightened it out.
Garlock weighed out and detonated a terrific matter-conversion bomb in the exact center of one of the largest vessels of the attacking fleet.
Then once more there came to Pierre, amidst his anguish, a vision of the errand girl lying yonder at the entrance of the Duvillard mansion, the pretty fair-haired girl whom the bombhad ripped and killed!
And he hemmed him in and forthwith interviewed him respecting the affair of that mechanician Salvat, who was accused of having deposited the bomb at the entrance of the house.
As Duvillard had expected, however, the great success of the bazaar lay in the delightful little shiver which the beautiful ladies experienced as they passed through the entrance where the bomb had exploded.
In a virulent article in the "Voix du Peuple," he had inquired if it were the intention of the authorities to beguile the public much longer with the story of that bomb and that Anarchist whom the police did not arrest.
Before our ears had ceased drumming another bomb exploded and then another.
Another bomb descended--every muscle in my body tightened and I stopped breathing altogether.
It lasted for several seconds and then with a deafening, reverberating thunder-clap that shook the entire theatre, the first bomb fell.
The bomb had fallen a few yards away, but had merely buried itself in the earth without exploding.
A bomb must 'a' burst on the roof--there was a big 'ole in the canvas.
His legs were pitted with a great number of small wounds caused by minute bomb fragments.
Just as money had to be backed by gold or silver reserves, every pseudo bomb or mock-gas had to be backed by the real thing which, after its representative had been used, was dismantled, neutralized or retired.
But the rain-maker explained at once that his was not the bomb system, but a method attended by more rain and less disturbance.
Another type of bomb used by aeroplanes consists of a container filled with steel darts.
This does not give the defender time to pick up the bomb and throw it out of the trench.
The operator usually cuts the fuse so that the bomb will burst at a considerable altitude.
Bombs from air-craft= are some form of high explosive bomb which burst on striking.
And one of the political prisoners of the Cetinje bomb affair, who had been condemned to fifteen years, escaped and took refuge in Scutari.
I had been so disgusted over the bomb affair in 1908 that I had fully intended not to visit Montenegro again.
Scutari was hotly excited over the bomb affair of Cetinje.
Now that we Know that these so-called civilized Powers will starve millions, and bomb helpless crowds, in order to obtain land and supremacy, many of us blush for the criticisms we once showered on the state of Macedonia.
He founded his article upon what he believed to be genuine documents, and on the evidence of Nastitch, the Bosnian, who had given sensational evidence at the Cetinje bomb trial.
Plamenatz told me that the bomb thrown into a mosque at Istib to excite reprisals or force the Turks to declare War, had been expressly prepared in Sofia, and anxiously awaited results.
The King had never recovered popularity since the bomb affair.
He was a brave man, for after the demonstration he went into the town on foot almost unescorted, and during the drive, though he must have expected a bomb every moment, he showed no loss of self-control save the blanching of his face.
The loafer fired his little bomb with the desired effect.
One of the most striking things about the war was the re-invention of the bomb thrown by hand.
Another thing which seems to have grown more or less of itself is the bomb or grenade.
The propellant is combined with the bomb and there is a percussion cap which fires it as soon as it strikes the bottom of the tube.
Thus the operation is just about as simple as it can be: the man merely places the bomb in the upturned muzzle and lets it slide down.
Turks in a moment of aberration should drop a bomb on it.
Few inhabitants were abroad, with the exception of the crowd of dirty, ragged children watching the engineers at their work, but nothing short of a bomb would upset the average Arab urchin.
One bomb dropped dangerously near the horses, who were standing the racket exceedingly well, and that did little damage.
Little imagination is needed to picture what would have happened to the hospital in toto had a bomb hit the fringe of the dump.
But with this neither the vulgar stage business of the New York Anarchists of today, nor the crazy appeals to the pistol and the bomb of the Chicago Anarchists of 1886, has anything whatever to do.
At a time of great public excitement, arising in connection with a strike, a bomb was thrown into the midst of a platoon of policemen, wounding sixty-six of them, seven of whom died of their wounds.
