Gelignite

The bridge roadways were cut by suspending a cradle underneath, placing boxes of gelignite on the cradle and then hauling the whole contraption up tight against the under-surface of the roadway. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Gun cotton and gelignite were used – the former to cut steelwork and the latter to destroy the piers supporting the spans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later, for the Land Commission, I dug ditches and drains, using sticks of gelignite to blast out large rocks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the day they found the valise in Waterloo with enough gelignite to blow a train engine through the south wall, so the papers said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fat beared imbeciles, otherwise known as the F. B.I, running into each other as they try to ignite each other's gelignite laden jock straps; tripping over placards as they troop glumly into court. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dynamite, gelignite, TNT, black and smokeless powder, even military plastique and straight nitro. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his Mirror column today, the impeccably-connected Labour polemicist Kevin Maguire proposes Balls for Number 11 as if this was manifestly a good thing rather than the stick of political gelignite it would actually be. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It can fool you into thinking there are Scotsmen who are worth the gelignite it would take to blow them back to hell. ❋ Bas Bleu (2009)

Born in a Durham mining village in 1914, Eddie Chapman enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, but he soon discovered Soho, girls, and gambling, was discharged for going AWOL, and turned to petty crime, less petty when he graduated to gelignite and safecracking. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am reminded horribly of the period 1994-7 when the prospective successors to John Major jostled for position, all making speeches coated in plausible deniability but with a core of political gelignite: vote for me as the next leader. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the request of the Beni Sakhr, Feisal had sent a party of Bisha masons and well-sinkers to reline the blasted well from which Nasir and I had picked the gelignite on our way to ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

So we soon had two fit wells, and a clear profit of thirty pounds of enemy gelignite. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

So after nightfall we returned to the line, laid thirty charges of gelignite against the most-curved rails and fired them leisurely. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

Soon after, a booby-trapped bomb containing three-and-a-half-pounds of gelignite was found in the Rubens Hotel in Buckingham Palace Road, central London ❋ Corbet, David (2002)

To his horror, it contained two sticks of gelignite. ❋ Corbet, David (2002)

In 1875 Nobel discovered blasting gelatine, from which arose the gelignite industry. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The two hijackers are armed with gelignite sticks. ❋ Unknown (1998)

When her [family] finds out who [the father] is, it [will] be gelignite. ❋ Kaleiskopickat (2016)