I'm carryin' a cargo of nitroglycerine, and I'll let go if you jar me," he explained.
"Flowing Gold"
Rex Beach
These were filled with nitroglycerine mixed with pieces of old iron, such as shrapnel bullets and pieces of burst shells which we all collected-and most deadly weapons they proved, if a Turk got one in the stomach it simply blew him in two.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson
I do not know any way except to blow them up with nitroglycerine, if we are ever to get them to heaven."
"The So-called Human Race"
Bert Leston Taylor