Riis Other Half|page=20|passage=The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
Hemingway Farewell to Arms|page=131|passage=‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’
29 January 2006, Bill Brownstein, Man loses detonator roulette, But what could Croatian chimney-sweeper Marko have been thinking by using a hand-grenade as a weight for his broom and then turning on his welding apparatus in the cleaning process?