bomb lance

How to use bomb lance in a sentence

• Then came the dull explosion of the bomb-lance somewhere in the vitals of the whale.

  Swept Out to Sea | W. Bertram Foster

• Nearly all of our whale ships, however, are supplied with the fatal and destructive bomb lance.

  The Arctic Whaleman | Lewis Holmes

• The bomb lance may be fired with effect at a whale, at a distance of about fifty yards or more.

  The Arctic Whaleman | Lewis Holmes

• Mr. Gibson went over backward, exploding the gun and sending the bomb-lance into the air.

  Swept Out to Sea | W. Bertram Foster

• The bomb-lance and gun are all very well; but the harpoon is the real weapon on which the whaleman must depend.

  Swept Out to Sea | W. Bertram Foster