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  • HAWAII f skill, so that in spite of the fact that he was surreptitiously known | as Sakagawa the Dynamiter, the man who had tried to kill Inoguchi, I people nevertheless continued to seek him out when their privies I needed unloading, for he merited the title, "King of the Night Brigade."

    Hawaii Michener, James 1959

  • Dynamiter_ did some work of considerable interest, and with his stepson,

    Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

  • It is all rather like a chapter from a story, and reminds us of a passage in "The Dynamiter" where some untroubled faubourgs of London are winningly described.

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • They call him "horror of emptiness," as did the black witch in Stevenson's Dynamiter; they worship him as the unspeakable name; as the unbearable silence.

    A Miscellany of Men 1905

  • _The Dynamiter_, written in collaboration with her husband.

    The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

  • _The Dynamiter_ was suggested by certain attempted outrages in London which had all turned out to be fiascos.

    The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

  • Dynamiter_ did double service, as his wife said, for first it amused his tedious hours of illness at Hyères, and afterwards it replenished his purse in a time of need.

    The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

  • There they put together the stories in _The Dynamiter_, which, as will be remembered, Mrs. Stevenson had made up to while away the hours of illness at Hyères.

    The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

  • It came out at first under the title of _More New Arabian Nights_, but afterwards appeared as _The Dynamiter_.

    The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez 1895

  • It reminds one of that charming and amiable young lady in Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dynamiter,' who amused herself in moments of temporary gaiety by blowing up inhabited houses, inmates and all, out of pure lightness of heart and girlish frivolity.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

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