Citations:exploding

English citations of exploding

• 1861, “The Dying Soldier”, in The Wabash Monthly, page 213:

  When, helpless, a soldier lay racked with his goadings / Of wounds he'd received in the battle's explodings, / The winds were his nurse; the cold earth was his bed; / His musket the pillow which rested his head; / His wounds were his robe; his attendants, the dead, — / And thus, struggling with death, he shivered and bled.

• 2016 January 5, Michael Z. Lewin, Missing Woman, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

  […] , smashings. Bang. Explodings, screamings. Bang. I didn't know if I was dreaming. Bang? And then the heaviest weight in the whole world crushed me and I went to sleep for a while.