More than once it had occurred to him that his accumulations of Notes were dangerous explosives to store in a private house.

It is perhaps not generally known that from the top of the thistle the Germans obtain picrate of ammonia, the most deadly explosive known to modern chemistry, while from the bulb below, butter, crude rubber and sweet cider are extracted in large quantities.

I felt sure that, if he turned that intensity of his upon life instead of upon science, he would be a destructive forcea high explosive.

Closer formation was the rule from that time forward, since the bombers must be amply protected in order to allow their gunners an opportunity to get to work with those frightful explosives and hurl them at the place where the bridge was supposed to lie.

Even as he spoke we could see a liquid explosive being poured into a sort of cup, and electric wires connected.

The gig grated, and the tide being high, they waded to the base of the cliff, Barnett carrying his precious explosives aloft in his arms.

It was derived from the aromatic series of nitrates (which that great scientist always insisted to be the correct basis for stable and powerful explosives), but it owed its enormously increased force to a fresh constituent, the introduction of which was entirely my own idea.

At the end of half an hour the Piccadilly Tube was lined with sufficient explosive materialsecurely rammed and tampedto ensure the permanent closing of the line.

"The German government has a terrific explosive, which is being held in reserve to the last....

Instead of speaking, he emitted a series of verbal explosives, and the boy whose answers didn't come quick enough became the object of withering scorn.

Before they left the table they were all three in that excruciating state of rawness of the nerves, in which a man has the sensation that his brain is a violent explosive which a single jarring sound or word must ignite and blow to atoms, like a bomb-shell.