Meanwhile the Aboukir's sister cruisers, more than a mile away, saw and heard the explosion and thought the Aboukir had struck a mine.

" At this the grief, hate, and rage in Lefty Joe were blended and caused an explosion.

To allow the violent opposition to subside, and to prevent any explosion of party feuds, the prudent Barneveldt suggested a mere suspension of arms, during which the permanent interests of both states might be calmly discussed.

To pen it up too completely brings explosion, devastation.

"Occasionally slides follow an explosion tardily, and the gases don't always dissipate quickly.

In the same letter he relates this anecdote: "You may expect another explosion of mad poetry from Lord Byron.

It might occur to any of the guests through curiosity to tamper with the wick and then would come the explosion to overwhelm them all.

I have tried to describe the atmosphere of universal and growing discontent which produced the explosion.

There was a scattering of people in the distance, apparently loitering with no particular purpose, but undoubtedly because they awaited an explosion of some sort.

The old-fashioned black powder of a generation ago makes a loud explosion.

The bullet, striking these cakes, ignited them, and they blazed up, and Borradaile, fearing an explosion, ordered a retirement of those troops nearest it to cover some thirty yards in rear, where they were protected by a wave of the ground.

The rattle of pistol fire three floors below continued in fits and starts, but the sound of it was oddly unreal, resembling more stammering explosions of a string of firecrackers than snaps of the whiplash of Death.

The forts to the right and left of Fort Steadman suddenly opened their thunders, and something like a repetition of the scene succeeding the mine explosion ensued.

Priming, if excessive, may occasion explosion.

Things were in this state, when two circumstances of a very different nature assisted in promoting the final explosion, which so much astonished, not only the rest of Europe, but France itself.

These circumstances encouraged the hope that we had fallen into good steady hands, who would do all in their power to avoid explosion.

In fact, it is a little safety-valve, which lets off what, if confined, might threaten explosion-an indexa thermometer, which reveals to me, from day to day, more of the state of public opinion in the little community than any thing beside.

So long as this perpetual surveillance is kept up, the machine seems to work on well enough in the main; but the moment there is any remissness on the part of the police,bang! goes a small explosion somewhere,or, crack!

I am wondering now why the American, or Englishman, or Frenchman, whatever he is, didn't hire some of the Chinks to do this work of laying the explosion.

Probably all of them had saved their lives, but they had lost ammunitionthe explosions had told him thatmuch of their stores, and doubtless all of their food.

If you can make yourself so attractive to your readers that they love your explosions and collisions, and say with a half-compassionate delight'how characteristicbut it is worth while unravelling!'

As we rolled down the mountain into the ten-mile turnpike where he and I had rediscovered our youth, he concluded his discourse without missing an explosion.

And then the crash or, if farther away, muffled explosion as another roof toppled in or cornice dropped off, as a house made of canvas drops to pieces in a play.

ugust Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel and Louis Lingg, leaders of the great eight-hour day national strike of 1886, were executed in Chicago on the framed-up charge of having organized the Haymarket bomb explosion that caused the death of a number of policemen.

Intellectual movement no longer appertains exclusively to the higher classes, to the ecclesiastics, or to the members of the Parliaments; vaguely as yet, and retarded by apathy in the government as well as by disorder in affairs, it propagates and extends itself imperceptibly pending that signal and terrible explosion of good and evil which is to characterize the close of the eighteenth century.