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  • We were feeling our way along with the shells dropping overhead like hail, when all at once two "Krupps" landed on the tunnel just over my head; there was a terrific explosion, the props of the tunnel gave way, and in another instant I found myself choked with dust and half buried under a pile of dirt.

    Into the Jaws of Death Jack O'Brien

  • I still have, and use, a white plastic Krupps grinder I bought in 1990 or '91 (for about $20, as I recall).

    Get Thee A Sustainable Coffee Grinder « PubliCola 2010

  • Even bankers like the Rothschilds and Oppenheims and industrialists like Henry Ford, the Krupps, the Agnellis, Onassis and Stavros Niarchosshowed up in Marbella.

    Honest Cooking: Dining At The Marbella Club: Legend Of The South Honest Cooking 2011

  • You showed me each step as if nobility was a par six at Bataan, stumbling by mile number four, you turn as hard as Krupps steel,

    Papa 2009

  • Colonel Stewart was wounded while firing a Krupps cannon from the palace roof.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • With “a heavy feeling at the heart telling of some awful disaster,” he ran in close to the bank, within sixty yards of the sand, before the “loud, rushing noise” of Krupps shells from Khartoum convinced him that the town had fallen.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • With “a heavy feeling at the heart telling of some awful disaster,” he ran in close to the bank, within sixty yards of the sand, before the “loud, rushing noise” of Krupps shells from Khartoum convinced him that the town had fallen.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Colonel Stewart was wounded while firing a Krupps cannon from the palace roof.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Colonel Stewart was wounded while firing a Krupps cannon from the palace roof.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • With “a heavy feeling at the heart telling of some awful disaster,” he ran in close to the bank, within sixty yards of the sand, before the “loud, rushing noise” of Krupps shells from Khartoum convinced him that the town had fallen.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

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