"Infernal machine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... infernal machine or a dynamite bomb," he said. "I wonder where it came from? Guess I'd better drop it in a pail of water. Maybe Eradicate found it and brought it here. I never saw it before. Mr. Jackson, please hand me that pail of water. We'll ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton
... speedy ascent to the station was soon agreed upon. Not caring to risk a sun-stroke, I resigned myself to the traditional conveyance of the country, a "jhampan," while the other two rode up; but here, for the second time, it was "out of the fryingpan into the fire." Such an infernal machine as my new conveyance turned out never could have existed in the palmiest days of the Inquisition. It was a sort of child's cradle, long enough for a creature of some five or six summers, made like a tray, and hung ...
— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight
... that eight English vessels were anchored in the north channel of Orleans, and on the twenty-first of June the masts of three of them could plainly be seen. One of the fireships was consumed in a vain attempt to burn them, and several firerafts and a sort of infernal machine were tried with no better success; the unwelcome visitors ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... remove one of those bars, and so admit his infernal machine; it was about the shape and size ...
— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade
... come to the conclusion that the only plan of marching in safety through the high grass, which was full of unseen enemies, was to constitute themselves into a sort of infernal machine, that would be perpetually emitting fire and bullets ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker |
