 | Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer - India - 1894 - 306 pages
...a trench dug right across the road, in which big guns had been firmly placed — two of them — as in a battery, I suddenly saw, far in the distance,...was smoke. Then after a perceptible pause there was a violent explosion, and at the moment I felt a pluck at my knees that made me involuntarily sit tighter.... | |
 | Francis Cornwallis Maude, John Walter Sherer - India - 1894 - 306 pages
...a trench dug right across the road, in which big guns had been firmly placed — two of them — as in a battery, I suddenly saw, far in the distance,...was smoke. Then after a perceptible pause there was a violent explosion, and at the moment I felt a pluck at my knees that made me involuntarily sit tighter.... | |
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... in a battery, I suddenly saw, far in the distance, a great tongue of fire flung up towards the sky, and immediately afterwards, what looked like a vast black balloon ascended, as if in pursuit of it, showing us, in its dispersion, that it was smoke.... 