Illustration: "Sir, Why Don’t We Make Two Bombs From One?
You’ll have a chance to set the bombs in just a short while," he said crisply.
But we’ll use two bombs to kick the asteroid into the orbit, then fire one to increase speed.
But no one had taught him how to make two bombs out of one.
Let them take the bombs and shells they have made and go out against one another!
There were half a dozen conspirators under arrest, and more than a dozen bombs had been found, all destined to be set off in the Empire Shops.
The Germans sent their giant airships to drop loads of bombs on London and their submarines to sink passenger-steamers and hospital-ships.
They could make bombsout of the steel tubing of bicycles, and Jimmie, knowing the Empire Shops as he did, could find a way to get in and arrange matters.
Then Parks jumped up on to the parapet with a pail of bombs and ran along.
If you are out walking, and enemy aeroplanes are dropping bombs on your side of the street, it is advisable to cross over to the other side.
Bombs roll down from the roofs as if they were empty kegs!
Women with dishevelled hair and inflamed faces gave an example of daring, and some were seen running with buckets of water after bombs which were still springing and ready to burst right there, that moment.
They burned Praga before the arrival of Sapyeha; they had begun already to throw bombs into all the suburbs, such as the Cracow and the Novy-Sviat, and on the other side against the church of St. Yerzy and the Virgin Mary.
They drew up new pieces one after another, and bombs began to fly with a howl over the heads of Vansovich's men and the dragoons, to fall in the meadow and dig into the earth, scattering mud and turf on those fighting.
With the remainder of his bombs he cleared a way for himself.
Owing to the greater resistance which the 4th Battalion encountered at first, their supply of bombs became exhausted in spite of gallant attempts to replenish it.
They advanced with a great show of resolution several hundred yards, then suddenly, to our astonishment, flung down their bombs and rifles, threw up their hands, and rushed into our line as eager prisoners.
Whenever the 4th Battalion was able to borrow bombs from the 23rd Division on their right, they gained ground; whenever the supply of bombs ran low they were forced to give way.
They were met, however, by a storm of bombsand machine-gun fire, and fell rapidly.
Having also lent bombs to the 16th Battalion on their left, they found themselves, when heavily counter-attacked about 2.
Bombs exploded thickly upon it, and, though wrapping it in flame, did no more than deface the fantastic patterns of its paint.
Heavy fire was directed against the attackers; and after a brisk exchange of bombs it became evident that nothing could be accomplished.
By this tunnel, when Australians or Imperials had captured Mouquet Farm on previous occasions, the Germans had been wont to steal in with machine-guns and bombs and take them in the rear.
Lance-Corporal Reynolds, though already hit, succeeded in reaching the enemy's parapet and delivering all his bombs with deadly effect among the packed ranks.
Hundreds of blank cartridges were fired, smoke bombs filled the air with their dense vapor, and in the distance bursting shells tore up the earth, far enough removed from the positions of the men to preclude any danger.
They'll be almost light enough from the star-shells, bombs and big guns," said Private Drew.
The bombs struck and burst, some of them setting off stores of ammunition and powerful powder designed for the big guns.
But I guess he'll have more respect for smoke bombs after this.
The arsenals were really at Dresden and Hamburg and Erfurt; but though we had not stirred, we were ten leagues from Rhenish Bavaria, and it was upon us that the first shower of bombs and bullets would fall.
They knew that a stroke of a saw or a plane was of more value than a cannon-shot, and how many tears and how much fatigue it would cost to rebuild even in ten years, that which the bombs had destroyed in ten minutes.
I doubt if my presence past midnight will stop him, but it should keep the bombs away at least until then.
They have no military men at all, so they called him in for the construction of the bombs and energy weapons.
One of those bombardiers is going to start thinking about home and about the cobalt bombs down here and he's going to press that button, deadline or no deadline.
As a last resort I'll drop thebombs myself rather than let the Nyjorders do it.
Not that I intend to stop looking for the bombs or the jump-space generator either.
That means you still expected the magter to be sending their bombs to Nyjord--and you made the landings in spite of this knowledge.
Any other planet would have jumped on the magter with both feet and shaken the bombs out of them.
But they will drop thebombs in order to assure their own survival.
If Telt's lead to the bombs proved to be false, there would be no hope left at all.
And I know where the cobalt bombs are--in the magter tower that Hys raided last night.
Ulv and I will go to the magter tower, try to find out if the bombs are there.
If I can find where the bombs are, I will have them taken away and there will be no war.
There are one and a half days left before the bombs fall and you are all destroyed.
The Nyjord fleet didn't know that the cobalt bombs had been discovered before their launching.
He told us about your stopping the bombsaimed at Nyjord, the two of you.
The Nyjord ships carry enough H-bombs to turn the entire planet into an atomic pile.
And he had found employment for this powder in an engine of warfare, a special cannon, hurling bombswhich would assure the most overwhelming victory to the army using them.
It is with things like that and not with stupid bombs that one revolutionises the world!
What was the use of having a strong-handed man at the head of the Government if bombs still continued to terrify the country?
And so it became necessary to take everything away from them, to rouse them from their egotism by terrible warnings, and to proclaim to them even with the crash of bombs that the day of justice had come.
Out of the black horrors of Antwerp, out of the hell of bombs and shells, these million people came fleeing for their lives into Dutch territory.
The box slipped down in the crowded trench, some of the bombs fell out, and the safety pins of two of them were dislodged.
He was soon made aware that the supply of bombs was running short, and the idea struck him that he might crawl round among the dead or wounded bomb-throwers and collect the bombs which they had not used.
The gunner was shot and the three men then threw bombs at the gun until it was completely wrecked.
It was further necessary that an airman should rise to a very great height to get above a Zeppelin; for without getting some distance above it he could not make any use of his bombs at all.
For another 17 hours he repeatedly threwbombs at the enemy, lighting the fuses with a cigarette.
He dropped bombs upon it which caused the gas in the envelope to explode.
Across this space there was incessant firing of rifles and machine-guns, throwing of bombs and hand grenades, and the firing of bombs from trench mortars.
One day he was in a trench with a number of his mates and was opening a box of bombs before an attack.
There was some danger of greater explosions, for the bombs might take fire at any moment; but this did not prevent the men who were watching from trying to put out the fire.
Without wasting a moment, he moved carefully round on hands and knees and made his collection, hanging thebombs at various points on his own person.
He was wounded and fell to the ground, but picked himself up and went on fighting until his bombs were exhausted.
It sailed over a wide area andbombs were dropped in various places.
As a relief to these disagreeable thoughts, a Taube dropped a couple of bombsinto camp.
As for anti-aircraft guns, they did not exist at all and the hostile aeroplanes used to fly over and drop bombs ad lib.
After breakfast a dove, the German sort, flew across from Chanak and dropped four bombs on our Headquarters; all wide; no damage.
Taube came over and dropped bombs near my Signal Tent, also a little summer shower of small steel darts: five men were wounded.
With his ideas still framed on Western standards he puts it forcibly, not to say ferociously, that we must, must, must be given our fair share of trench mortars, bombs and gun ammunition.
I happen to have a supply of small experimental bombs along, which are heavy enough to frighten them into believing one of the new explosives may follow, after we have the range.
They asked him many questions, and seemed never to tire of hearing about how the army air pilot had fired those volleys of small bombs down at the skulkers, actually driving them from the field for good.
Wouldn't it be just great if a pilot could give his whole attention to the job of dropping bombs and such like, never bothering himself about the wind currents or anything else?
He had a lot of small experimental bombs along, and every time one dropped near where they were trying to hide, you'd have nearly taken a fit laughing to see how they skipped out and ran like mad.
Yes, and already it has been settled that bombs shall not be dropped into besieged cities where civilians may be killed, but only into forts and on war vessels," the army officer told them.
Some seven of the little bombs had been used by the time both men vanished into the shelter of the woods a mile or so away from camp.
The fumes of the bombs from the Mathiot gun may have got into my head but, at least as far as I could see, they had not made my mind any the less active.
In spite of the fragility of the bombs that I have here, it has been found that they will penetrate a wooden door or even a thin brick partition before the fuse explodes them.
At Venice the Austrian air raiders dropped bombs into the arsenal and the oil tanks and balloon sheds on the Lido.
They bombarded the trenches, using bombs filled with poisonous gas.
The aviator dropped two bombs which found their mark on the deck of the submarine and sank her.
The Belgian airmen dropped bombson the aviation field at Ghistelles on March 27, and on the following day a Zeppelin hangar was destroyed at Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, near Brussels.
The left wing of the plucky Territorial battalion used bombs effectively to hold their enemy at bay.
High explosive shells and hand bombs were useless against this defense, but Colonel Garibaldi, a grandson of the great Italian Liberator, found a way to drive the Austrians out of their position.
The British bayonet seemed to strike them with terror, and the bombs were more potent in scattering them than were the orders of their commanders to repel the attacking force.
More bombs were near the vessel, but none of them found its mark.
A German merchant ship in the harbor was set afire by the Japanese aerial bombs and destroyed.
At Broodseinde, the extreme eastern point of the allied front, the Germans made a desperate attempt to take the salient, using asphyxiating and other bombs again and again on the men of the Twenty-eighth Division of the British.
The daring of the British aviators even took them over Lille, where they dropped bombs on one of the German headquarters.
One of their aviators dropped bombs on the harbor station at Ostend.
In the meanwhile Patricio and I loaded three cases of dynamite and a case of bombs into the boot of the coach.
See, we have orders to walk up to the walls and throw these bombs inside!
Our bombs wouldn't work, and what could we do with rifles?
You couldn't possibly get these bombs away to a safe distance in that short space of time.
In five minutes those bombs with which the dastardly Carl hoped to wreck the vessel would explode.
Well, Mr. Reitberg's bombs stopped their rush, and came in very handy.
And--and you mean to tell us that the bombs are empty?
And I wonder where he'll put hisbombs and how this ship's going to suffer.
You see, we knew that those bombs had been rendered harmless.
There is always the speedy, powerful aeroplane, capable with ease of ascending infinitely higher, far out of range of her deck guns, for Zeppelins carry weapons above just as you see here, and from that point dropping bombs upon her.
Wish to goodness I had brought bombs aboard the ship.
They've been looking out for you since you planted those bombs aboard.
Learn now what it is to set bombs to slaughter other people.
He realized now that the bombs before which he had been forced to sit, and which he had expected to shatter him to fragments in a few seconds, he realized that they had been rendered harmless.
As for the Sergeant, he placed a chair for the magnate between Joe and Andrew, plumped that perspiring and shaking individual into it, and having taken the two bombs from Dick put them on the table within a foot of Carl Reitberg.
The airship, intent upon the destruction of the submarine, had now descended to within two hundred feet and was dropping specially shaped bombs resembling aerial torpedoes.
By Jove, if he starts dropping bombs about here there'll be trouble!
If we imitated the methods of the Kultured Huns we should drop a few bombs on Kaiser Wilhelm's palace.
Had Blake any bombs in reserve he could have easily destroyed the airship with one properly-placed missile, but his last had already been used to good purpose in the raid upon the German capital.
Let 'em have bombs and flêches when I give the word.
I heard the bombs drop, so I knew that the battleplane had set to work.
There was still an ample reserve of machine-gun ammunition, while the Russian authorities had supplied a dozen bombs filled with a super-powerful Japanese high-explosive.
Our khaki-clad troops, recking not the stubborn resistance of the grey-coated Huns, were pressing forward with bombs and bayonets.
A similar watertight covering closed the aperture through which the bombs were dropped in action.
At the order Sergeant O'Rafferty dropped two bombs in quick succession.
Undisturbed the battleplane continued circling, although at a much lower altitude, her crew examining the results of the bombs with studied leisure.
The bombs arrived and were loaded in; and Cloud, with a casually-waved salute, stepped into the tiny operating compartment.
The two bombs arrived and were substituted for two of the original load.
And there you are, right in the middle of that explosion, with two duodec bombs outside your armor--or just inside your flitter.
The Prussians continue to send us 6,000 bombs a day.
The concierge said to me: "Monsieur, they say that bombs will fall in this neighbourhood to-night.
The cannon from the ramparts ceased to thunder, and the bombs to flash; hand-weapons alone were heard through the whole length of the western rampart.
The crowd therefore stopped for a moment, then broke in two; the bombs burst, scattering death and destruction.
By the light of the bombswere perfectly visible the great banners of the hussars of Skshetuski and Zatsvilikhovski, the dragoons of Kushel and Volodyovski, with the prince's Tartars, led by Roztvorovski.
He beckoned with the gilded baton, and immediately an ominous flight of bombs sounded in the air, and fell into the advancing ranks.
All this time the people within the walls were in ill-condition, their diet consisting of beans, or very coarse bread, and the enemy's mortars throwing bombs and carcasses among them with little interruption.
Time after time the place shook as those terrible bombs exploded with awful result, for the yellow-haired girl seemed to keep up a continuous supply of them.
My Emperor has given me orders to quell the rebellion, and all who make bombs for use against the Government must die.
Rumours of an attempted assassination of Yuan Shih-kai by means of bombs now circulated,--and there were many arrests and suicides in the capital.
The novelty had already been seen of a miniature air-raid on the Imperial city, and the panic that exploding bombs had carried into the hearts of the Manchu Imperial Family made them ready not only to capitulate but to run away.
While the men were tearing down the Turkish parapets to form this barricade a veritable inferno raged round them as the bombs exploded.
The valiant men who still clung to the trenches they had gained, suffered cruel loss from bombs that the Turks hurled overhead and along the communication trenches.
From a forward observation station I noted the battle line spitting red tongues of flame all along to the Nek, while at Quinn's Post occurred every few minutes, terrible explosions of shell and bombs from either side.
But the Turks held the higher ground above, and from their trenches it was an easy mark to throw bombs down on to the Light Horsemen in the trenches lower on the ridge.
Although marked for hospital, he declined to leave, and volunteered to throw bombs for another company which had lost its bomb-throwers.
Each hung up the receiver and gave a curt order for some further boxes of bombs to be dispatched.
They carried large numbers of bombs and digging implements.
The Turks turned and fled down their own communication trench, but, as we held either flank, were caught by bombs and rifle fire, and killed.
A certain amount of protection had been gained at Quinn's from the deluge of bombs that the enemy accurately threw, by a screen of wire-netting that caught the bombs so they burst on the parapets.
Battles on Quinn's were no mild engagements, for usually the hillside was covered with bursting shells and bombs that the Turks hurled over in amazing numbers.
Mostly they were short rushes, opposed by terrific bursts of fire, bombs hurled into the advancing mass; a check and then a pause.
Not a word comes from them even of regret for the massacre of civilians on false charges, for the wanton murder of children, for the wholesale rape of women, the showering of bombs upon sleeping towns in sheer cruelty of destruction.
One now hears that a French dirigible has been dropping bombs into Luxembourg--a much more dignified retort.
There was great indignation at the dropping of bombs into Antwerp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bombs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
