melinite

We should not take spear and lance and go out singly in pursuit of bears; we should organise a large and lively hunting party, drive the animals together, and throw a melinite bomb into their midst.

Zion's Vital Signs P. J. O'Rourke 2001

Dynamite or melinite would soon open an entrance to their fortress.

The Master of the World 2003

We should not take spear and lance and go out singly in pursuit of bears; we should organise a large and lively hunting party, drive the animals together, and throw a melinite bomb into their midst.

Zion's Vital Signs P. J. O'Rourke 2001

You come out of the dust and the stench of melinite, not knowing where you were, hardly knowing whether you were hit -- only knowing that the next was rushing on its way.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

And here are we with the enemy all round us, splashing melinite among us in most hours of the day, and for the best part of a month we have not even had any definite news about the men for whom we must wait to get out of it.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

For the object that Frank held in his hand was a small melinite floating mine!

The Boy Allies under Two Flags

Shrapnel screamed all around, and melinite shells made the earth shake.

Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters James Alexander Kilpatrick

The latter cannon, however, only used cordite, whereas the 5-inch howitzer shells are filled with a picric compound resembling M. Turpin's melinite.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

And with it all there is the melinite and the shrapnel.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

The whole place was dust and thunder and the half-acrid, half-fat, all-sickly smell of melinite.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens