On the German side the inevitable litter of unexploded but sodden bombs; undo the metal protectors and you find the very string which caused them to explode has rotted in its case.
A battered but unexploded shell lying with the piece explained that it must have struck the gun in the muzzle, almost squarely.
The constable always opened the enemy's unexploded fire-pots in his subterranean work-room; refilled them there, then hurled them back without delay.
But Hugo always collected the enemy's unexploded bombs, and, after opening and refilling them with fresh explosives, would hurl them back whence they came.
We came upon an abandoned howitzer and in the snow a magnum of unexploded shells, a great stain that had turned black, and a yellow mound of fresh clay.
Unexploded shells lay everywhere, and the litter of great ruin, and storms of shells were bursting upon the Vimy Ridge.
In its banks were unexploded shells and deep gashes where the bursts had torn the earth down, and innumerable craters.
He presently landed on top of the unexploded boilers, forty feet below the former pilot-house, accompanied by his wheel and a rain of other stuff, and enveloped in a cloud of scalding steam.
On the road, a quarter of a mile townward, an aged colored man showed us, with pride, an unexploded bomb-shell which has lain in his yard since the day it fell there during the siege.
We saw a large unexploded bomb; it was fortunate it had not burst; we also saw a small one which had gone right into a tree.
In the afternoon we both went up to get a shell; there were fourteen unexploded ones.
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.
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.
I would rather have touched a sleeping tiger than that conical piece of metal with its unexploded possibilities, but bent low to see the inscriptions on it, scratched by French gunners with wore recklessness of death.
Afterward I saw him come down the hill opposite, with an unexploded shrapnel shell in his hand.
Cases came to light, too, showing that in the excitement of battle the American soldier forgot to release the safety device, thus giving the German an opportunity to hurl back the unexploded grenade.
The unexploded or "dud" shell is a menace to life, and the duty of destroying these in immense quantities fell to the salvage service.
The exploded bomb and the unexploded were in all respects identical--the same hand set both.
There were unexploded shells lying about in great numbers.
Some of those greenhorns had gathered a number of those unexploded shells, set them up on end for a fireplace, and were quietly boiling their coffee over them when they, of course, exploded.
Great delight was given by the thought that Westlake's stillunexploded bombs would receive consecration also for any retributive work that awaited them.
Unexploded shells were still in the walls, and on the inner wall of the side that had sheltered me I counted over twenty direct hits.
It was an unexploded Maxim-shell, a pretty little messenger of Death, girt with bright copper bands and gaily painted.
And everywhere in the fields unexploded shells, which it would be death to touch, which have already made many unsuspecting victims.
And the fields are still alive with innumerable red flags--distinct from the tricolour of the graves--which mark where the plough must avoid an unexploded shell.
Clif then briefly told of the adventures that followed his finding of the unexploded shell, which he picked up from its lodgment in the boat and held in his hand.
He meant to return for that unexploded shell in the face of every difficulty and put his ideas to the test.
It was fortunate that Tom and Jack wore the uniforms that had so endeared them to France, or they might have had difficulty in gaining admittance to the bureau where the unexploded shell was under process of investigation.
An unexploded shell ought to give 'em a line on the kind of gun that fired it.
The exploded bomb and the unexploded were in all respects identical - the same hand set both.
There was a moment of agonised suspense which seemed extraordinarily protracted, and then he alighted, unhurt, on a pile of blankets, the unexploded bomb still in his hand!
I trod on an unexploded shell, and gave my leg an infernal wrench just as our fellows had to fall back.
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