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Infernal machine   /ɪnfˈərnəl məʃˈin/   Listen
Infernal machine

noun
1.
A bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time.  Synonym: time bomb.






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"Infernal machine" Quotes from Famous Books



... an 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 soak ...
— Tom Swift and his Sky Racer - or, The Quickest Flight on Record • Victor Appleton

... secret the real destination of the Tehuantepec Girl led to her undoing. A German dock-hand, who was really in the pay of the Teutonic Government, had placed an infernal machine in the cargo, setting it to explode two days ...
— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

... was received by Moustai just as a similar infernal machine was placed in his hands under cover to his young wife. The packet was seized, and a careful examination disclosed its nature. The mother of Moustai, a jealous and cruel woman, accused her daughter-in-law of complicity, and the unfortunate Ayesha, ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... him with admiration, gratitude, and homage, there were violent men in the two extremes of society, among the Jacobins and the inexorable Royalists, who regarded him as in their way. Napoleon's escape from the explosion of the infernal machine, got up by the ...
— Napoleon Bonaparte • John S. C. Abbott

... the intruder in a startled way, as if it had been some infernal machine; but presently took courage to advance and take the missive in his hand. It was a small round cardboard box, about the size of a tennis ball, which, much to his surprise, bore his own name, printed in pen and ink, on the outside. He opened it nervously, and found a note ...
— Follow My leader - The Boys of Templeton • Talbot Baines Reed


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