If it looks like dynamiteand is exploded with the ordinary detonating cap, its peculiarities do not receive much attention.
The attention of the foreman is called to the fact that dynamite is not as efficient in a hole full of water as it is in a dry hole, and every effort should be made to load the holes as dry as possible.
Whenever a part of the charge in a hole has been exploded, leaving any unexploded dynamite in the hole, do not under any circumstances blow out the unexploded dynamite with a steam jet.
Never thaw dynamite in front of the fire, or on a hot stone removed from a fire, or by piling sticks in a boiler or in an oven.
Attention is called to the fact that dynamite will freeze in about 45 deg.
You may, however, put a stick of dynamite down into the hole on top of the unexploded powder and endeavor to fire the entire hole in this manner.
One girl, disguised as a vender, frequently carried to the woods dynamite in egg shells deftly put together.
Two dynamite guns finally were put in position by the Americans and five shots were fired.
The dynamite was made by another woman, who carefully obtained the ingredients at various times and at widely scattered drug stores.
Of the fourth raters, Vesuvius is a dynamite ship, the Yankee and Michigan are cruisers, the Petrel, Bancroft and Pinta are gunboats and the Fern is a transport.
As a preliminary to the hammering given the batteries the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius at midnight was given another chance.
A little later a 'premature' explosion of dynamite cost us ten thousand dollars and two weeks' labor of fifty men.
A terrific charge of dynamite had been used to let down upon us the water of a lake which was situated at the top of a ridge near our right of way.
But the key logs, which held the main pile plugged in its position, had not yet been found, and even an occasional charge of dynamite had so far failed to stir the barrier.
Percy had been so absorbed in watching the preparation of a new charge of dynamite that he had not noticed that Sergeant Silk had left his side.
The spirit of anarchy, which had been so strikingly displayed in the excesses of the Parisian Commune, was shown later in various instances of death and destruction by the use of dynamite bombs, exploded in Paris and elsewhere.
While doing so a dynamite bomb was thrown in their midst, which killed several and wounded about sixty of the officers.
We had thought at first that dynamite had been used, but evidently you smuggled your much more compact bombs across the desert with you.
The rich strike in Ontario had not been made yet, and the prospectors who pushed into the forests with drill and dynamite were regarded as rash enthusiasts.
They didn't want miners with dynamite and noisy machines to invade the solitudes and frighten the wild animals away.
Later he had taken the dynamite from the engine to prevent its exploding, wrecking the machine and killing the crew.
He admitted having had the dynamite in his pocket when arrested, but said he had taken it from the engine to prevent its exploding and wrecking the locomotive.
I then put the dynamite on the engine myself an' Moran followed me and took it off, and saved Cowels's life, prevented me from becoming a murderer, and went to jail.
I mean to say," said the old man slowly, "that I don't believe Dan put the dynamite on the engine.
If you hope to learn from me that I had anything to do with Cowels's death, or with the placing of the dynamite upon the locomotive, I am afraid you are wasting your time.
Then maybe Dick Prescott will pitch dynamite again for me to bat at!
I don't care about fooling with a dynamite factory," remarked one of the men.
Then, as Joe sprang to his feet, Watkins yelled in mockery and flung the dynamitecartridge into the air.
In the part I'm best acquainted with the thermometer is now registering forty degrees below zero, and it would need a charge of dynamite to break the ice on the lakes.
There are men you can only dynamite out of the mire, because if you pull them out by gentler means they crawl straight back again.
If I had possessed a Remington rifle, six Colt's revolvers, and a dynamite bomb, I should have backed out just the same.
A request had come from the Governor of Colorado for the extradition of a Pole named Ivan Wolaski, who was accused of being concerned in a dynamite explosion in a Colorado mine.
At irregular intervals the news of dynamite explosions in different parts of England, was flashed over the wires that spanned the two continents beneath the broad waters of the great Atlantic.
Duff | | This was a total of thirty-two men convicted of participation in dynamite explosions.
And that basis was diametrically opposed to any dynamite policy and also opposed to the triangle, which dictated that policy," said Judge Longenecker.
It is in testimony that the dynamite policy of the organization was approved, because they were all reunited," said Mr. Foster.
I do not know of any testimony from which you can argue that there was any dynamite policy, Mr. Foster," said the court.
Cronin ever taking a dynamite policy, so far from his being an active member in furthering such a purpose, we wished to prove that he wrote a circular bitterly opposing the dynamite policy, for which he was expelled from his camp.
Cronin was expelled because he bitterly opposed the dynamite doctrine, and we were not allowed to do it.
Despite the efforts of every cowboy at the Rainbow, Dynamite had never been successfully broken.
His rope sailed out to catch the fallen bronco, thus preventing Dynamite from running while Connie's feet were still in the stirrups.
At another time, a dynamiter entered the Houses of Parliament and exploded ten pounds of dynamite in one of the large corridors, with the result that it only made a hole in the floor and smashed a few windows.
Several years ago, when the subway was being built, a dynamite magazine accidentally exploded in front of the Murray Hill Hotel.
Prior to that time the only success achieved in throwing large charges of high explosives was by use of the Zalinski pneumatic dynamite gun, a battery of which had been made and mounted at great expense at Sandy Hook.
The hollow sound of the dynamite explosions glided along the slopes and was swallowed in distant space.
We spent a few lazy days on board the little cutter; the natives would not come down from their villages, in spite of frequent explosions of dynamite cartridges, the usual signal of recruiters to announce their arrival to the natives.
Let the rich stretch forth toward the great masses of England, Ireland, and America as generous and kind a hand as that of Peter Cooper, and the age of dynamite will end.
If the men determined to blow up all Millville with dynamite I'm sure Skeelty would not lift a finger to prevent it.
Considering these facts, Mr. Merrick shrewdly suspected that the dynamite explosion had been the work of the mill hands, yet why it was harmlessly exploded in a field was a factor that puzzled him exceedingly.
From their limited knowledge of the facts the explosion seemed unaccountable, but there was sufficient intelligence among them to determine that dynamite had caused it and dug this gaping hole in the stony soil.
The batteries were brought up from the lazaret, one of the dynamite boxes lifted out with caution, and Bartlett and I looked for the best places in the ice for the charges.
Several sticks of dynamite were wrapped in pieces of old bagging and fastened on the end of long spruce poles, which we had brought along specially for this purpose.
Pole, wire, and dynamite were thrust down through cracks in the ice at several places in the adjacent floes.
I can give you a start, but after that you will have to dynamiteyour way to the front by yourself.
Dynamite was used at this time with such success that we have used it ever since.
In fact he is thinking of using dynamite to blow it up and market the wood in Batavia for gunstocks at the gun factory there.
I would like to say that if you will dynamite the hole with a one-half stick of twenty per cent.
The cartridges are charged with a pound of dynamite to each.
It was over--the dynamite had done its work, whether successfully or not remained to be seen.
The prisoners in the cave were provided with no implements but spades, whereas dynamite and crowbars would be necessary to force a way through the debris which choked the mouth of the tunnel.
I walked away wishing the dynamite would go off, even if I had to be mixed with Violet till the last trump.
I have some dynamite in town now that would be just the thing to blast out your trench.
Most of us think that dynamite is used for tearing things apart, but here is a case where it is building up the land and making it produce greater crops.
Of course, you'd have to dynamite the holes good and deep where you put the trees, so they'd have no trouble getting good roots.
Dynamite certainly is a quick means for doing a hard job, thought Bob, and he immediately decided to learn more about its uses.
Into this he pressed some cartridges of dynamite with a wooden rammer.
Take, for example, a schoolmaster, and suppose him to be a dynamite cartridge.
Much to my surprise, I found that neither Nicholas Naranovitsch nor Bella nor my mother would consent to witness my experiments with dynamite that day.
Without its detonator, dynamite is a sleeping giant.
A small charge of dynamite inserted under each of these completed the work, and the old giant, slowly bowing forward, laid his venerable head upon the ground.
Yes, but nothing to dynamite, for while powder only bursts things, dynamite shatters them.
I now resolved to throw the dynamite into the sea, break up my model, and have done with explosives for ever.
Detonating caps are therefore made of this, and one such cap put into the middle of that cartridge of dynamite and set fire to, by any means, would convert the cartridge itself into a detonator, and explode it with a shattering effect.
Well, mother, there are indeed some simple elements in creation, but dynamite is not one of them.
Very well done," I said to Firebrand, "but I think that a much smaller quantity of dynamite would have done it as effectively.
With their automatics and their dynamite they might keep the natives at bay for a time, but in the end they would be obliged to surrender or starve to death.
I take it that they think there's something supernatural in this dropping of dynamite from the sky," Harry observed.
The dynamitehad done its work well, at least, so far as noise was concerned.
They could see that there was only one person on the machine, and that he was busy arranging something which looked like a stick of dynamite which he held in his hands.
We'll put a lot of dynamite down under the motors and fix a cap so it will blow up when the concussion comes.
Looking out from the interior, now guarded only by the panels at the front and sides, the boys saw Ned drop half a dozen sticks of dynamite on the logs and brush which had been floated down on top of a number of canoes.
We could give them only a charge or two of dynamite and a few shots before they would be inside.
I presume I have dynamite enough to blow up that improvised dam," replied Ned.
Oh, we can use dynamite as long as we have it," was the reply, "but there will be Indians on guard there long after we are out of the stuff.
We'll give them dynamite as long as it lasts, and then ram the logs below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dynamite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
