Apparently there is no limit to the percentage of explosive that can be placed in the shell except the mechanical one of having the walls thick enough to prevent being crushed by the shock of discharge.
There seems to be no limit to the possibilities of high explosives when intelligently applied to the warfare of the future, and the advantage will always be on the side of the nation that is best prepared to use them.
In order to be well above the prescribed limit of illuminating power at all parts of an extended service, the gas at the works must be sent out at an illuminating power of 17.
The shock to the explosive is, of course, greater than in the full-sized projectile, but the increase can be calculated, and so far a dangerous limit has not been reached.
He had watched the varied colours come out in the dawn, the wide cultivated Settlement of many shades of green, framed far away by the fine black lines of the forest-edge that was its limit and its protection.
A long board, sailed very close, enabled the brig to fetch the southern limit of discoloured water over the bank on which the yacht had stranded.
An obscurity that seemed withoutlimit in space and time had submerged the universe like a destroying flood.
I find the scriptures of our blessed Lord and Saviour quoted with a manifest design to limithis grace and salvation.
Refuse to be my wife, and you limit yourself for ever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity.
The composition of this library is of interest as showing the strong trend of his thoughts towards history, though at a later date he was careful to limit its study in the university and schools which he founded.
And he urged him to insist on the limit of July 20th, "always on the same reasoning, namely, that we must have forty full days to see if we can come to an understanding.
The alluring visions set forth in his letter of February 2nd were as visionary as ever; and Romantzoff expressed the wish of his countrymen in his remark to Champagny: "We have come to Erfurt to set a limit to this conduct.
Godoy strive to set a limit to the numbers of the auxiliaries that poured across the Pyrenees to help them against fabled English expeditions.
Later on we demanded that the Neapolitan garrison should remain in Malta for three years after the evacuation of the island by the British troops; whereas France desired to limit the period to one year.
But I think that if France could be induced to give up this point, and limit her demands to the exclusion of British commerce from Portugal, the Government of this country would accede to them.
The choice was a good one; Hoche was active, able, and popular with the soldiery; but he had not yet reached the thirtieth year of his age, the limit required by the constitution.
We had been instructed in, and had practised the zigzag before this, but that was about the limit of our resources in this line.
This brought her back to a course just at right angles to the beam of the now helpless enemy, toward which she was driven to the limit of the last kick of the engines.
But even as it was we were driving right up to the limit of endurance all the time, and the sea that did not come rolling up green right over the bows was the exception rather than the rule.
There is, of course, a limit to the number of 'cans' a destroyer can carry, and those which still remained he wanted to husband against a better chance to use them with effect.
Some of the organization's leaders, instructors, and exceptionally active members stay in the group beyond the upper age limit of twenty-four, but their number is too small to alter the membership statistics significantly.
Basic to these conflicts was the limit on the power of the king and the extent of popular participation in government.
If it is intended to procure a Dallmeyer, it is only necessary to know the limit in size of the work to be done.
It had been demonstrated that wonderfully beautiful effects could be produced by the collodion process, but that there was a limit beyond which progress could not be made.
Some limitmust be put to this bloodshed; it is time for peace.
There are such things as physical impossibilities; there is a limit to human endurance, and that limit we have long since passed!
It has been noted that there was a limit to the powers of this court and that cases which it could not hear went before the General Court.
The phrase to note in the above is: "as far as the courts of the two counties shall extend it," in other words, there was no limit to the western boundary.
The entire boundary was not surveyed then, in fact it was a good many years later before it was necessary to have a clear limit between the two colonies for the entire area.
He should not approach her within arm's length; the lavender marked the limitbeyond which he might not draw near.
He was impatient and thought they would dawdle there, and, perhaps, take more than the nip to which they professed themselves content to limit themselves.
Was there no limit to this small girl's all-penetrating curiosity?
During this second crossing to the forecastle he knew beyond range of doubt that he had reached the limit of physical endurance.
The two girls were at the extreme limit of their powers of endurance, mentally and physically.
She was sobbing pitifully, and the knowledge that her distress was induced by the fate immediately in store for the man whom she was espousing "by God's holy ordinance" tested Maseden's steel nerve to the very limit of endurance.
The wrong we see in each individual we do not call deformity: when it is so, it stands on the limit of the common circle, in opposition to beauty.
The intellectual powers, arriving at the limit of my common circle, i.
Grace is the characteristic object or general form of the ideal region, and its perception is the general limit of the powers of imagination or taste.
I promptly telephoned several of them to buy large blocks of the stock at a limit of 95 cents.
Because of the time-limit of its options, the Scheftels company was forced, from time to time, to throw stock on the market at prices which showed an actual loss.
Our expenses in that quarter were swelled to the limit of working capacity on our underground explorations, as I realized that our salvation might depend on making good in quick order with Ely Central from a mining standpoint.
From the city's cathedral to every point of the compass, except the west, they stretch almost without limit till they reach the bedraggled fields maturing for development.
It was known that the old man had passed the limit of seventy, but only five years before he won a steeplechase on his own, and if ever a rider fulfilled Montaigne's ideal of a life spent in the saddle, it was he.
Hardly anyone really thinks he will die, or is persuaded that the limit to his nature has now come.
But, to limit ourselves to the familiar period of the last three or four generations, the words, thoughts, and actions most pregnant with dynamic energy have been marked with one mark.
Such checks as now limit the increase of colored populations are wholly external, like famine, disease, and tribal warfare.
They then limit the number of their children in order to give them the capital or education to enter occupations in which they will not be brought into contact with the new arrivals.
The individual does not have to attend to such things, but is free to go ahead on some special line of his own, to concentrate to his limit on his work, even though that work be fighting the common opinions.
Their violations of law, particularly those of Charles, are, in some few instances, transgressions of a plain limit which was marked out to loyal authority.
Such has been the case with all those statutes enacted during turbulent times, in order to limit royal prerogative, and cramp the sovereign in his protection of the public, and his execution of the laws.
He was even resolved to limit extremely the power of the bishops, and was content if on any terms he could retain that order in the church of Scotland.
Ned, noting that the machinery was running almost at the limit of speed.
They were not running their machine to the limit of speed, for though they could readily have made a quick trip to Colton, the place of the meet, they preferred to take it easy, and avoid chances of a breakdown.
Naples, as with Milton, was the limit of his tour, and from it he returned to Rome.
His father was now dying, and a London trip, which had been planned by Boswell for 1782, found the son at the very limit of his credit.
We often hear it said that the only way to get good government is to deprive such people of their votes and limit the suffrage to persons who have some property at stake.
