BOMBS in Classic Quotes

1  A thousand rocket bombs would not batter it down.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

2  'Steamer' was a nickname which, for some reason, the proles applied to rocket bombs.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

3  As though to harmonize with the general mood, the rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers of people than usual.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

4  The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumours.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

5  It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds--scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

6  Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9