Their threats are the pattering of hail on a bomb-proof shelter.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
At this point, Mrs. Maclaughlin put in a bomb.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
At any rate this gave Peter an excuse to escape from the table and it was, indeed, time, for they had all settled, like a clatter of hens, on to the subject of the bomb, and they all had a great deal to say about it and a great many questions to ask Peter.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole