His wife and daughter, they tell him, were killed months ago by a flying bomb.

Three hits on the base by bombs would end the game.

"My husband killed in the second war by a bomb," she explained.

The rest were either killed or driven mad by bombs.

Nothing short of a direct hit by a bomb would make this baby blink.

The destruction of the stock by bombs ended its sales.

This was worse, I told myself, than if we'd found the place all smashed to hell by bombs.

And then, a torpedo perhaps, or a near miss by a bomb.

The train yard was large and not ruined at all by bombs.

In the 60's the store became a target and its windows were broken numerous times, once by a bomb.