Ever and anon, as the rushing waves of the Seattle fire would roll over and envelope a drug or other store where powder or other explosives were kept, a volume of flame would shoot upward, with a deafening roar, towards the clouds, as though claiming the storm-king as its kinsman.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Eight thousand yards of gallery had been bored, and there were nineteen mines ready charged with over a million pounds of explosives.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Whatever their motive had been, many of these men had come out, and they lay in heaps, mangled by shell-fire that came across the fields to them in a deep belt of high explosives.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs