High explosive of the kind the Germans use will pulverise the parapet of a trench and kill every one within reach.

The hard ground was softened by water, and legendary accounts of Mahomet's powers in pulverising the rocks are numerous.

There had been no rain for a month, but just where the stumps were stuck a bucket or two of water had been dashed hastily on to the arid soil; while, to crown all, a chain or rib rollera ghastly instrument used by agriculturists for scrunching up the lumps and bumps on the ploughed fields, and pulverising the soilhad been used with such effect that the surface of the pitch to the depth of about an inch had been reduced to dust.

In the debating society Hill knew quite clearly that, to a thunderous accompaniment of banged desks, he could have pulverised Wedderburn.