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Shrapnel's new shell was first used against the French in
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy
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Shrapnel's invention was the first air-bursting case shot which, in technical words, "imparted directional velocity" to the bullets it contained.
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Albert Manucy
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That pestiferous letter of Shrapnel's was animadverted on, of course; and, 'I should like you to have heard it, Austin,' the colonel said, 'just for you to have a notion of the kind of universal blow-up those men are scheming, and would hoist us with, if they could get a little more blasting-powder than they mill in their lunatic heads.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'"We,"' Captain Baskelett put out his hand for silence with an ineffable look of entreaty, for here was Shrapnel's hypocrisy in full bloom:
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Mr. Romfrey handed him the pocketbook with the frank declaration that he had read Shrapnel's letter.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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He was out on a cruise, and saw your schooner pass, and put into some port, and began falling right and left, and they got him back to Shrapnel's: and here it is -- that if you go to him you'll save him, and if you go to my wife you'll save her: and there you have it: and I ask my old friend, I beg him to go to them both. '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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'It's Nevil's green-sickness, and Shrapnel's the god of it.'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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There's Nevil dragged by a woman into one of their reeking hovels -- so that Miss Denham at Shrapnel's writes to Lady Romfrey -- because the woman's drunken husband voted for him at the Election, and was kicked out of employment, and fell upon the gin-bottle, and the brats of the den died starving, and the man sickened of a fever; and Nevil goes in and sits with him!
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Shrapnel's epistle to "brave Beauchamp" is Church hymnification in comparison with his conversation.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I don't, 'the General hesitated and hummed --' I don't call at Shrapnel's. '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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