The sound of the storm was now a thunder suggestive of constantly exploding cannons.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
It alighted on the thick grass, without exploding.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
All around the country too, his shells were exploding in a scattered, aimless way, and from our side there was a heavy bombardment all along the Vimy Ridge, above Neuville-St.-Vaast, and sweeping round above St.-Nicholas and Blangy, two suburbs of Arras, and then south-west of the city on the ridge above the road to Cambrai.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs