Lexicographical Neighbors of Amorces
Literary usage of Amorces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Explosives and Their Power by Marcellin Berthelot, C. Napier Hake, William Macnab (1892)
"These amorces were composed as follows:—One kind, called single, of a mixture of
... From six to eight millions of these amorces pasted on paper slips, ..."
2. Port-Royal Education: Saint Cyran; Arnauld; Lancelot; Nicóle; De Saci; Guyot by Félix Cadet, Antoine Arnauld (1898)
"amorces (bait) is one of those metaphorical words in which something of their
... We say indeed the amorces of vice ; we might say, To allow ourselves to be ..."
3. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1898)
"Previous experiments had clearly established the fact that the safety of these
amorces depends not so much on the average proportion of explosive matter ..."
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