exploded

The instant after a shell exploded in the garden outside, within a few yards of the window.

What puzzled the police was the fact, not merely that he had been shot with his own revolver, but that the revolver had been exploded in the drawer of his desk.

The worthy father had soon a satisfactory proof of the truth of their information, for the very place was found where a rock had burst and exploded from its entrails a stony mass, like a bomb-shell, and of the size of a bull's heart.

At the last a charge of gunpowder was fired, and the concussion exploded the dynamite.

Jerry had just gained the doorway when the shell exploded. The house went into flying fragments, and Nalasu flew into fragments with it.

If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainty have thrown Agrippa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies.

"A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes," answered the Roman Candle in a low whisper; and the Cracker nearly exploded with laughter.

The bullet striking the wooden casing of the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the wood and masonry.

His revolver exploded harmlessly in the air, and then another hand wrenched it from him and hurled it far into the underbrush.

The wounded terrier exploded in a futile snap at Michael's tongue and nose.