An opportunity should be given to the inhabitants of the village to make their escape if they so desire it, and then, with the explosives that the force should carry, the end can be practically instantaneous.
These new Benninschein explosives will make certain of that.
Moreover, there are now many explosives of the dynamite nature but differing from it in having an active instead of a passive absorbent, so that the decrease in sensitivity is accompanied by an increase in strength.
So now we come to the great question, how can the modern farmer benefit by the use of high explosives such as these?
Altogether there is no doubt that the use of explosives is going to have a marked effect upon farming operations in the near future.
The greatest possible care is used in the factory to see that all explosives sent out are what they are meant to be, and that they can therefore be relied upon to behave according to programme and not to play any tricks.
Even in the digging of wells explosives may be useful.
As far as he was aware there were no explosives on board, a consignment of gelignite, for use on the Rand, having been landed at Durban.
None of the officials would detect in the harmless-looking slab that resembled sheet-glue one of the strongest explosives possible to obtain.
When he halted once more, the frightful hurricane of high explosives swept before him, on both sides and behind -- but not close to him.
In the first two days of June the French downed fifty-seven German machines and dropped 130 tons of explosives in the battle area.
Karlsruhe was bombed by the British on June 1, and tons of explosives were dropped on Metz, Seblon, and other towns.
On Friday no less than seventy tons and on Saturday sixty-two tons of explosives were dropped by airmen on German bivouac troops.
Besides all that, there was the dynamite andexplosives factory equipped to manufacture all sorts of modern ammunition as it does now, and this is why President Krüger described that factory as one of the corner-stones of Boer independence.
The sky was full of shrapnel, and the high-explosives were falling in the houses on fire, and spreading the red stuff like fireworks.
The man killed saw the torpedo coming and ran aft to throw overboard some high explosives stowed there--but he didn't quite make it.
At his age I had small love for fire-crackers or explosives of any kind, but in two or three years, and without any prompting, I became really expert in guns and gunpowder.
Other men enter the arena on foot, armed with red flags and explosives about the size of a musket cartridge.
Before the animal is turned loose a lot of these explosives are attached to him.
To each of these explosives is fastened a barbed needle which serves the purpose of attaching them to the bull by running the needle into the skin.
In rocky soils, drilling and explosives may be employed.
Substances are termed low explosives or high explosives according as they are set off by combustion or detonation.
The constituents of the 'gunpowder' explosives are generally not explosive alone, but only when mixed.
Though modern explosives are not easily exploded by a blow, they are sensitive to shock of given intensity, and lesser or different shocks will not suffice.
Explosives are divided into classes according to the uses to which they are put, but the line of demarcation is not always very clear.
Ammonite, Westfalite, Bellite, Roburite are explosives of this type; other ammonites, Bellite Nos.
The baron and the other arrested persons declare that the bombs and other explosives were to be used in Finland.
At their lodgings and in the luggage of these persons the police found nearly a ton of explosives of a very powerful variety.
Part of these explosives was made up to resemble coal briquettes, and was all ready to be mixed with the coal in ships' bunkers.
This work is effected by means of shrapnel shells that cut the wire into little strands, then high explosives are used to root out the remaining posts.
I had seen a fear of those explosives of life come in my dying father's eyes, and here I stood at his command out on the ocean in quest of a woman's fate in a strange country.
I have heard it said in my department that there have been thirty-one new explosives invented since the beginning of the war.
You must remember that there is always a great risk of disasters in factories where explosives are being handled.
This hotel had a road running alongside, and whenever anyone appeared in the road, the Boche immediately opened up on the hotel with high explosives and shrapnel.
The prospective enemy carried the point, and the manufacture of high explosives was handed over to a German company, which built works for the purpose near the Russian capital, and had its headquarters and board of directors in Berlin!
All the varieties of Hun projectiles were hurled at them, high explosives of various sizes, shrapnel and gas.
Not the least of the difficulties of our men was the fact that the Germans mingled a certain quantity of gas shells with their high explosives and shrapnel.
They realized this at last, and then turned loose the customary sullen shelling with shrapnel, high explosives and gas.
Turkish trenches, making a huge cavity there, filling it with explosives and blowing the trench and such Turks as were in it sky high.
When the crew assembles they are to be arrested and their power-boat and explosives seized.
The amount of dynamite and other high explosives yet in the hands of the people could not be estimated.
Along with this manufactured armaments must go, especially fuel, powder and explosives are to be moved into the foreground.
Actually committing assault by explosiveswill earn you the sustained attention of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
But although the desire to drop a charge of explosives upon the yacht's deck, and blow the miscreants to a quick and horrible fate, was well-nigh irresistible, Drake could not go against his definite orders.
If the same precaution were adopted on all occasions it seemed pretty obvious that the aero-hydroplane could not drop explosives upon the cruiser's deck without doing harm to friend as well as foe.
But I've made a few inquiries, and I think that by the time my factory's up they'll be wanting moreexplosives than they can get.
I'm going to have the biggest explosives factory in the world.
Both the War Office and the Admiralty have told me they have all the explosives they want," he sneered.
Men were useless without guns, guns without shot, shot without explosives; and explosives could not be produced without a factory.
Chief of these explosives was gunpowder; nitro-glycerine, though well known, had then little or no acceptance, for good reasons.
Since then the use of the gelatine explosives has increased more and more, and in some countries they have entirely superseded dynamite.
It was in providing guns with explosives of new power that Alfred Nobel won both distinction and fortune.
He did study explosives very deeply, however, and besides learning many things about them realized how much might be accomplished by their use in the after-time.
It was not with regard to explosives alone, however, that Roger Bacon was to make great advances and still more marvelous anticipations in physical science.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "explosives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
