"Infernal machine" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and outs of politics during the first ten years of Louis Philippe's reign, which were checkered by revolts, emeutes, and attempts at regicide, I pass on to the next event of general interest,—the explosion of the "infernal machine" of Fieschi. ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer
... like Christina herself. All was not lost! Eagerly he tore off the numerous wrappings and disclosed a—cocoa-nut! In his present state of mind he would have preferred an infernal machine. A cocoa-nut! She was just laughing at him! He was about to conceal ...
— Wee Macgreegor Enlists • J. J. Bell
... infernal machine or a dynamite bomb," he said. "I wonder where it came from? Guess I'd better drop it in a pail of water. Maybe Eradicate found it and brought it here. I never saw it before. Mr. Jackson, please hand me that pail of water. We'll ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton
... to humankind because of the dangers they run and because of the pluck they show in storms and fires, and the unending fights they make against wind and wave. But of late they had had unheard-of enemies to meet, the submarine and the infernal machine ...
— The Cup of Fury - A Novel of Cities and Shipyards • Rupert Hughes
... bed but not to sleep. What, he asked himself, had been the contents of the black portmanteau? Stolen goods? the carcase of one murdered? or—and at the thought he sat upright in bed—an infernal machine? He took a solemn vow that he would set these doubts at rest; and with the next morning, installed himself beside the dining-room window, vigilant with eye; and ear, to await and profit ...
— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson
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