"Grenade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... her stubborn heart, if once mine come Into the self-same room; 'Twill tear and blow up all within Like a grenade shot ...
— Tudor and Stuart Love Songs • Various
... was sent to Camp Boone for their preliminary training, and here the young recruits were put through their paces in rifle shooting, grenade throwing, bayonet practice and all the other exercises by which Uncle Sam turns his boys into soldiers. There was plenty of fun mixed in with the hard work, and they had many stirring experiences. A pleasant feature was the coming of Tom, who although rejected when he tried to enlist had been ...
— Army Boys in the French Trenches • Homer Randall
... past with faces red-brown, yellow or chestnut, their beards scanty and fine or thick and frizzled, their greatcoats yellowish-green, and their muddy helmets sporting the crescent in place of our grenade. Their eyes are like balls of ivory or onyx, that shine from faces like new pennies, flattened or angular. Now and again comes swaying along above the line the coal-black mask of a Senegalese sharpshooter. Behind the company ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse
... to the fort had gone, And the grenade, it struck him in the breast; He fought for liberty, and death he won, For country here, and ...
— Modern Italian Poets • W. D. Howells
... which burnt half an hour, emitting a horrid stench; in a calm the flame would rise ten feet. Some of the rockets were sharp pointed, others not, made of sheet iron very thick, containing at the lower end some of them a fusee of grenade, calculated to burst, and if they were taken hold of before the explosion, might prove dangerous; one or two persons received injury in this way. They appear to contain a greater variety of combustibles than the ...
— The Defence of Stonington (Connecticut) Against a British Squadron, August 9th to 12th, 1814 • J. Hammond Trumbull
... Fee de Bogota, capital du nouveau royaume de Grenade, a environ 4 degres de latitude N. et 304 de longitude, prise de l'ile de Fer, est situee au pied et sur le penchant d'une montagne escarpee qui la couvre a l'est; elle domine une plaine de douze lieues de largeur sur une longueur indeterminee ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... from below came two sharp reports—his grenade and the Doctor's. They were off together. Crash followed crash in quick succession until the row was finished. Silence followed for a single second. Then came the cries and curses of men, as they staggered from their half-demolished ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell
... told in the Vorwaerts by Herr Adolf Koester (who acts as war correspondent for the German Socialist Press) in connection with the recent fighting at Hooge. A German soldier told him of a young Scotsman whom he had killed with a hand-grenade in whose pocket he had found a ...
— The World in Chains - Some Aspects of War and Trade • John Mavrogordato
... cried, "I saw every officer in my company killed. First it was my first lieutenant. They got him in the head. Then about ten o'clock I saw my second lieutenant fall. Then early in the afternoon my top-sergeant got a bayonet, and a hand-grenade got a group of my non-commissioned officers. Half ...
— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger
... my petard well and 'twas plain the shock of it had gone far to shatter the wall of confidence our enemies had builded on the field of Camden and elsewhere. Had a hand-grenade with the fuse alight been dropped upon the table, the consternation could scarce have been greater. To a man the tableful was up and thronging round me; but above all the hubbub I heard a little cry of misery from the table-foot where ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde |
