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Definition of Bombshells
1. bombshell [n] - See also: bombshell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bombshells
Literary usage of Bombshells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life by George Jacob Holyoake (1906)
"IN CHARGE OF bombshells. (1856.) IT was at Ginger's Hotel, which then stood near
Westminster Bridge, that I first saw the bombs whose construction was ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"I du believe wutever trash '111 keep the people in blindness,— Thet we the Mexicans
can thrash Right inter brotherly kindness, Thet bombshells, grape, ..."
3. My Life and Balloon Experiences by Henry Tracey Coxwell (1887)
"AIR TORPEDOES AND bombshells. If there is one branch of modern strategy which ia
likely to he watched with keen interest during the next Continental war it ..."
4. German Romance: Specimens of Its Chief Authors : with Biographical and by Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, Johann Karl August Musäus, Jean Paul, Ludwig Tieck (1827)
"... and amid the bombshells, pestilences, famines, comets with long tails, and
the roaring of all the Hell-floods of another Thirty Years War, ..."
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