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The thought of this unconscious and delayed-action crusading filled me with keen delight.
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It had the impact of a delayed-action atomic bomb.
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When István pressed the scarlet bulb, the brass trumpet let out its melancholy delayed-action moo.
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In developing his shell, Shrapnel married two existing weapons technologies, the canister shot and the delayed-action fuse.
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He could see a few fires still burning, and every so often a delayed-action bomb would go off.
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The projectile carries a bursting charge of a high explosive, and this charge is detonated by a delayed-action fuse.
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Long after the planes had gone, delayed-action bombs were exploding in Tempelhof, where the raid had taken twenty-two thousand lives.
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The carnage wrought by the German six- and eleven-inch explosive shells with delayed-action fuses was frightful beyond anything I have ever known.
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Like the 420s they fired an armor-piercing shell with a delayed-action fuse allowing the explosion to take place after penetration of the target.
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The bombs, in the main, however, consist of jacketed shells containing high explosives, some of which are constructed on what is called the delayed-action principle.
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'It must have had a delayed-action fuse on it' Her voice sounded funny, as if she had something stuck in her throat.