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Definition of Infernal machine
1. Noun. A bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infernal Machine
Literary usage of Infernal machine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte by William Hazlitt (1852)
"Attempts to assassinate the First Consul; the infernal machine ... transportation of
the Jacobins ; report of the police minister on the infernal machine, ..."
2. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte by William Hazlitt (1852)
"THE infernal machine. Attempts to assassinate the First Consul; the infernal
machine ; transportation of the Jacobins ; report of the police minister on the ..."
3. History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1852)
"The devastations of what were called the infernal machine were still to be seen
in Paris, two years afterwards, when I was there, as I stood on a pile of ..."
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