Picking it up, he hurled it savagely at a tree, and, when it fell to pieces with the concussion, he exclaimed, vehemently and inconsequentially: "That's the blamed thing that got us into this muss!"
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
Mr. Spokesly stood for perhaps three seconds holding the telegraph handle, and he heard a second explosion, a hollow concussion amidships that sent a great column of water into the air so that the Tanganyika seemed to have shipped a heavy sea.
"Command"
William McFee
You can hardly see the shipping now, the smoke hangs low on the turquoise blue of the bay, and you can just see the yellow gleam of the flash and feel the concussion and the roar that follows.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch