dynamite

• If the sea hadn't spoiled that there dynamite, they'd 'a' brought it up as quick as it went down Maybe you're right," answered Bob, "but there's something about this whole business that I don't like, Jerry. —  The Pirate Shark
• Sir Roger read his gruesome narrative with much emphasis, and as he laid down the paper he observed Well, I hope I'm not more of a coward than most men, but in face of dynamite--ugh!" —  Comedies of Courtship
• With Mr. Brock had come the young men, Miss Donner, and Mrs. Whitney. Mrs. Whitney signalized her arrival by sitting down on a chest of dynamite--having intimidated the modest headquarters custodian by asking for a chair so imperiously that he was glad to walk away at her suggestion that he hunt one up--though there was not a chair within several miles. —  The Daughter of a Magnate
• He says you're charged with dynamite--_I knew that--a most remarkable young man. —  The Daughter of a Magnate
• If socialists like to play with dynamite, then I should think they might like such cases; otherwise, not. —  The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891

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