explosive

• No high explosive--and fighting is still going on Hi jaculis illi certant defendere saxis. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
• Office. At midnight an enemy aeroplane let us have a taste of his high explosive--no harm done. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
• Whether the explosive was destined as a depot for submarines or was to help overturn the Spanish government was hard to guess, but Count Romanones was worried over the activity of the German agents in Spain It has been very easy for German agents in America to communicate with Germany through this submarine post from Spain to Germany, the letters from America being sent to Cuba and thence on Spanish boats to Spain At all times since the war the Germans have had a submarine post running direct from Germany to Spain. —  Face to Face with Kaiserism
• No very intimate acquaintance with technical details was needed to realize that there were difficulties in the way, and that high-explosive is awkward stuff to deal with--a gun of my own 5-inch battery in South Africa was, shortly after I had left the unit to take up other work, blown to pieces by a lyddite shell detonating in the bore, with dire results to the detachment. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
• Whether the Young Turks favoured high-explosive or not, I do not know; but its absence somehow did rather smack of the reactionary, and, with the exception of one of its members, the personnel of the Expeditionary Force appeared to have some grounds for complaint at its field-batteries having none of this form of ammunition. —  Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

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