"During nearly two years' preparations the enemy had spared no pains to render these defences impregnable," says the Commander-in-Chief; and he goes on to describe the successive lines of deep trenches, the bomb-proof shelters, and the wire entanglements with which the war correspondence of the winter has made us at homeon paperso familiar.

" Lady Bannerdale went home and dropped her bomb-shell in the presence of Lord Bannerdale and Edwin.

He was a bomb-thrower.

"Bomb dropping has not been indulged in to any great extent.

chaffed Roy; "an anarchist bomb factory or an establishment for raising goats, or something that will "butt in" just as much on our peace and quiet, or" "Roy Prescott," enunciated Peggy, severely shaking one pink-tipped finger under Roy's freckled nose, "this is not a subject for jesting.

Each man knew that, shelter them as they would from observation, the sparks were almost certain to betray them; but although some rifles began at once to crack spasmodically and the bullets to whistle overhead, each man went on with the allotted program steadily, without haste and without fluster, devoting all their attention to the proper igniting of the bomb-fuses, and leaving what might follow to take care of itself.

bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms) 727.

Bomb myth exploded.

I've had it: the survival of a bomb group commander.

They also consist of picked men, and undergo a special training to accustom them to bomb-throwing at close quarters and to other incidents of the assault.

The bomb outrage at Debreczen last Februaryan event which is without parallel in Roumanian historywas the first muttering of the gathering storm.

flattop [Coll.]; helicopter carrier; missile platform, missile boat; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor, floating battery; first- rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat, bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; privateer.

Infinitely slow seemed the progress of the first gleams of hopethe steady front in Burma, the reconquest of the first groups of inlands; the first bomb attacks on Japan itself.

[Illustration: Excitable Lady (describing to wounded Tommies the appearance of a bomb-hole on the London Front).

The Caroline of thirty-eight guns; and eight of the East India Company's cruisers, namely, the Mornington, Ternate, Aurora, Prince of Wales, Ariel, Nautilus, Vestal and Fury, with four large transports, and the Stromboli bomb-ketch.

The wind was right, and the huge kites, bomb-laden, climbed into the sky like vultures.

But the first sparks had evidently been seen, for the bomb party heard shoutings and a rapidly increasing fire from the German lines.

" "You think it's a bomb plot?" asked Jane.

"Why, sir, that place has been proved bomb-proofbomb-proof, sir.

The wind was strong, but defying treacherous eddies, the pilots came through the valleys between steep-sloped hills and caught the Turks on the Nablus road, emptying their bomb racks at a height of a few hundred feet, and giving the scattered troops machine-gun fire on the return journey.

He hurried her away to the bomb-shelter, where her father lay raging and fuming, because his infirmity would not allow him to take part in the contest.

Now, what d'ye think of that for a successful bomb throw?" "Good enough for you, Andy," was the hearty response.

Certainly the Zeppelin which I saw in action had nothing of the kind, nor did it drop its projectiles promiscuously, as one would drop a stone, but apparently discharged them from a bomb-tube.

He went on to tell me how a swift ship goes hunting whales with a bomb-gun and explodes shells into their insides so that they perish at once.

Don't forget what I told you about the dad an' those Schwartzeheimer friends o' his, the cousins o' which same friends I've been blowin' off the earth with bomb base-balls.