"I suppose they've all got brass noses there," he says; and he explodes at this joke.

A Prince-Rupert's-drop, which is a tear of unannealed glass, lasts indefinitely, if you keep it from meddling hands; but break its tail off, and it explodes and resolves itself into powder.

And Bruno always is like a loaded gun-barrel, just a little spark and he is on fire and explodes.

Until at last something happens that puts the placenta out of commission in this function of restraint, and the long bottled up post-pituitary secretion explodes the crisis apparent as the process of labor.

It is only when the thermometer is rising that you enjoy him, and only when he reaches the climax and explodes, that you fall back and ask for water and a fan.

He explodes at a touch.

"It must be a terrible sensation to any passenger, no matter how brave he may think himself," he went on to say, "when he feels the shock as a torpedo explodes against the hull of the steamer and knows that in a short time she is doomed to be swallowed by the sea.

Nature never explodes such wild and senseless energy as when she lets loose a mob in a panic.

Natali the Jesuit hath cut to the Dominicals, to draw on the reader's attention, which thou rejectest; that which one admires, another explodes as most absurd and ridiculous.

explodes all this, and saith he took three grains only upon Matthiolus and some others' commendation, but it almost killed him, whereupon he concludes, [4205]"antimony is rather poison than a medicine." Th.

" "But, man, if that mine explodes we shall all be killedblown to pieces!"

The grenade explodes, nevertheless.

When the heavy artillery of interest, power, and prejudice is brought into the field, the paper pellets of the brain go for nothing: his labyrinth of nice, lady-like doubts explodes like a mine of gun-powder.

It must be remembered that the burning fuse of a bomb gives no indication of the length that remains to burn before it explodes the charge.

Electricity is used to make the spark that explodes the gas at just the right moment in the cylinders.

It was known and recognised that the speaker had done more than any living man to establish the fact that war is dangerous, that gunpowder, if heated, explodes, that fire burns, that fish swim, and other great truths without which the work of the peace endowment would appear futile.

Ten millions for an autopropulsive projectile which, when it explodes, destroys everything in sight within a radius of over twelve thousand square yards!

It is autopropulsive, it projects itself, and no ship within a certain zone when the engine explodes could escape utter destruction.

6, flashes down the central tube of the shell, and explodes the bursting charge in the base, Fig.

Though to-day my feet are climbing Bleaker heights and harder roads, Still the Christ-church bells are chiming, Still the mid-day gun explodes.

"Now," said I, "when your husband explodes, as you think he will, neither say nor do anything; sit and gaze out of the window with that far-away, sad look women know so well how to affect.

THE STATEMENT OF SAMUEL WILKINS XIV THORNDYKE LAYS THE MINE XV THORNDYKE EXPLODES THE MINE XVI AN EXPOSITION AND A TRAGEDY Chapter I The Mysterious Patient

I should like to be in Marchmont's office when it explodes.

Chapter XV Thorndyke Explodes the Mine

Garcilasso explodes the Spanish etymology of the name, in the language of Cuzco, which he 'sucked in with his mother's milk.'