He was in the act of throwing a grenade when it slipped from his hand and fell to the bottom of the trench.
Of course the grenade had made the entrance impassible--we had to cut our way in through the outer wall.
By Tish's instructions I kept to back ways, throwing a grenade here and there to indicate that the attack was a strong one, and also firing my revolver.
In the end, however, he agreed, and the last we saw of them he was driving the German ahead, with a grenade in one hand and his revolver in the other, and looking happier than he had looked for days.
This ought to be nuts for us when we get to the trenches," remarked Billy, as he cut loose with a grenade in practice that landed within two feet of the object aimed at.
The hand grenade throwing was of special interest to the boys and was the one most readily mastered.
If the German sees that there are none of these red threads in the fuse of the grenade that drops near him he figures he's got time to throw it back.
Imagine a crack pitcher with a grenade in his hand and the Kaiser a hundred feet away," said Billy with a grin.
A grenade arced from the bushes and the pursuers recoiled from the cloud that rose before them.
He slid an SP grenade into the rod's track and estimated windage and range.
Sighting carefully, not breathing, muscles relaxed, the rod rock steady, he fired and lobbed the little grenade into the ditch.
But whereas the hand-grenade could only be lobbed in from among the wire, the rifle-grenade could easily be sent over from our trench at that particular spot on our right.
We proceeded to train a grenaderifle on the extreme right, likewise a machine-gun.
You know, at night-time it is not very easy to tell the difference between the explosion of a hand-grenade and that of a rifle-grenade.
But another whizzing sound rent the air, and another grenade fell into the fire, which had just blazed up again; it almost extinguished the flames, and remained in the midst of the coals.
Suddenly a whizzing sound was in the air above him--a grenade fell to the ground close to the emperor, burrowed into the earth, and scattered the camp-fire.
Here, too, we were to learn something of grenade and mine warfare such as the other two battalions of our brigade had been waging all summer near Ploegsteert.
On one morning we were most unfortunate, a grenade killing our bombing sergeant and two men, and we started to retaliate with every variety of grenade we had.
I was sure that he was going to hurl a grenade in my direction.
It was the famous jam-tin hand grenade which came into use at about that time.
In the disk were six tubes, four of which carried percussion caps so that the grenade was sure to explode no matter on which tube it fell.
A curious German hand grenade shaped like a hair brush] The Germans had one peculiar type which was in the shape of a disk.
The grenade was fastened on a rod which was inserted in the barrel of the rifle and then it was fired out of the gun by the explosion of a blank cartridge.
The object of the parachute was to keep the head of the grenade toward the enemy, so that when it exploded it would expend its energies forward and would not cast fragments back toward the man who had thrown it.
A rifle grenade fitted to the muzzle of a rifle] A much better plan was to hurl them with the aid of a gun.
Before the grenade was thrown, the waxed paper was stripped off and the fuse was lighted by being scratched on the armlet.
Then the safety-pin was removed and when the grenade was thrown, the lever would spring up under pull of the spring A.
In the handle of this grenade there was a bit of cord about twenty feet long.
Because of this hazard, liquid fire did not play a very important part in trench warfare; to set fire to the spray at its source with a well directed hand-grenade was too easy.
But flame-throwing apparatus had its drawbacks: there was always the danger that the tank of highly inflammable oil might be burst open by a shell or hand-grenade and its contents set on fire.
The shell of the grenade was indented so that it would break easily into a great many small pieces.
This was a very sensitive grenade, arranged to be fired by percussion, but it was so easily exploded that the firing-mechanism was not released until after the grenade had been thrown.
It also showed the Japanese how to carry the leaflet so as to persuade the triggery Americans that he was not holding a hand grenade behind it.
One night he gawkily strolled into the Black Cat, and one day he boldly entered the Hotel Grenade and made some inquiries of the porter regarding the price of accommodations, which, however, he declared were far above his means.
The three methods of discharging a hand grenade are: By time fuse which is lighted by hand.
In this form of grenade the charge is fired when the grenade strikes the ground or object at which it is thrown.
This form of grenade is very heavy, often weighing 200 pounds and is fired from a trench mortar.
This grenadehas a rod which is inserted in the barrel of the rifle.
In this form of hand grenade a strap on the wrist with a short line attached with a hook on the end of it serves, when the hook is engaged in the ring of the grenade, to jerk the primer when the grenade is thrown.
About 5 to 9 seconds is the time from ignition until the grenade bursts.
This automatically ignites the fuse which bursts the grenade in from 4 to 5 seconds.
In this form of grenade a safety pin holds the plunger from the cap.
When the grenade is to be thrown the safety pin is withdrawn.
The usual weight of a hand grenade is about 1-1/2 pounds.
That I had been in the cabin pretty recently, and that Lady Biddy had told him no more than the truth, Rodrigues might see full well by the burning lamp and the grenade I had left behind me.
Burning at this little pace, I reckoned the lamp would go some days, with attention, and I prayed it might last till we reached a port where we might escape; for without it to ignite the fusee my grenade would be of no use.
We drove the cows all into one end of a big lot because there was no way to send the grenade with sufficient force to spread the gas; but I went as close as I dared, and threw with all my might.
It struck a stone and broke and right quick a couple of cows close to the grenade sort of crumpled up and laid down, and some more, and then one on the outskirts of the group looked around and said, 'Dear me suz, it gets late early now!
Heart bounding with savage joy, Nelson watched the deadly green fog leap from the brokengrenade and of its own accord settle on the nearest soldiers.
Shattering the bronze helmet, the American's bullet struck the Atlantean squarely between the eyes, but nevertheless the stricken officer's grenaderolled forward and burst among the hindermost of Hero Giles' followers.
His captain was killed by a rifle grenadelast week.
He tested the trigger confidently, sights on the open doorway, and hoped Moreau was right when he claimed the concussion grenade would render anybody inside totally incapacitated.
So just send a stun grenade through the door and take out the fucker's eardrums.
The heavier ordnance had to be left, the grenade launchers and shotguns.
They stumbled backward, while a grenade rocketed harmlessly into the night sky.
He extracted a flash grenade from the vest Willem had given him and got ready to pull the pin.
Down below, the moon glistened on the rocks, and one of the gunmen was aiming a grenade launcher.
The Germans had also brought out and limbered up a crate of MK760 submachine guns, fully automatic with folding stocks, as well as some Czech mortars and grenade launchers.
The rocket grenade on the forward end looked like a round arrowhead while the back was flared to dissipate the exhaust gases.
He gasped for breath, blinded by the flash grenade but still trying to see through the billowing CS that was engulfing everything.
Finally, he grabbed the startled old professor by the arm, then dropped the last grenade at their feet.
He remembered that grenade smoke was designed to cling to the ground rather than rise, and with a burn time between one and two minutes, a good grenade could produce a quarter million cubic feet of HC smoke.
Most effective in this work was Lieutenant Dembinski, who killed Turks without number, until a grenade ignited too soon, burst in his hand, and tore it off.
With surprising speed each member of that weird firing squad detached a brazen grenade from his belt, then threw back his arm in exactly the same attitude as a bomb-throwing doughboy.
One of them plucked a fungus grenade from his belt and flung it with all his might in Nelson's direction.
Several enormous emeralds set into the other's bronze cuirasse glittered softly and the Hero's cold blue eyes hardened as his hand sought the grenade belt.
The combat had degenerated into a hand-grenade affair.
We stood on the top of the ground right above the door and hurled grenade after grenade through the doorway until all noise gradually ceased down below.
Johnson attacked a Japanese tank single-handedly, scrambling to the turret, dropping a grenade inside, then sitting on the hatch until the detonation.
A third grenade exploded in his hand, grievously wounding him.
The poor beggar said 'Thank you' with a funny German accent and the grenade blew him to hell.
He remembered the man he had once helped to pick up in whose pocket a grenade had exploded.
Before I left the front I saw a man tuck a hand-grenade under the pillow of a poor devil of a German prisoner.
Then the hand-grenade came into its own again, for the men could throw it from the depths of their own trench high into the air in the hope that it would fall into the trenches of the enemy.
The "Grenadier" Guards owe their title to this fact and carry the design of a bursting grenade upon their uniforms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grenade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bomb; bombshell; carcass; grenade
