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"High explosive" Quotes from Famous Books

... That high explosive shell had obviously not come from the fort; where, then, had it come from? And what new surprise had fate ...

— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood

... did take a chance!" declared Ned, who knew how "freaky" the high explosive was, and how likely it was, at times, to be set ...

— Tom Swift and his Giant Cannon - or, The Longest Shots on Record • Victor Appleton

... which commanded the left entrance to Sackville Street, the insurgents still held Hopkins's corner on the other side, and on this the artillery next concentrated not only high explosive shells but incendiary bombs as well, and the whole place became a mass of blazing ruins, the flames leaping across Lower Abbey Street ...

— Six days of the Irish Republic - A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics • Louis Redmond-Howard

... hull looked very much like the effect of a charge of high explosive exploding in the engine room," ...

— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper

... such terrible things." Shell number two, and high explosive. "You won't let them take me from ...

— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... twenty-pound cans was being passed from hand to hand to the chargers. Score after score of the compact cans of high explosive had been packed into the scattered holes, and as if alive to what was coming the chill air of the canyon took on the uneasiness of an atmosphere laden with electricity. Men of the operating department paced the bench impatiently, and trackmen working below in the flare of ...

— The Daughter of a Magnate • Frank H. Spearman

... defined as a slow moving, high trajectory missile containing high explosive and exploding by contact or time fuse. Grenades may be divided roughly into two classes—1, hand grenades, and 2, rifle grenades, and each of these classes may be subdivided as regards means of explosion, into 1, time fuse, or ...

— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker