I crouched down with my men -- we were in open formation -- and ducked my head at the sound of the bursting 'obus' and trembled in every limb as though I had a fit of ague. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
Children know the different aeroplanes by sight, and one little girl, when I ask her for news, gives me a list of the "obus" that have arrived, and which have "s'éclaté," and which have not. ❋ Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon (1890)
The shells, which the Parisians called "obus," were like an old-fashioned sugar-loaf, and weighed sometimes one hundred and fifty pounds. ❋ Elizabeth Latimer (1863)
Dis lil burdy bringing owt geek in awl obus, aifinkso. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Un anecdote vraiment triste est du 29 mars 1918, un obus allemand est tombe sur la nef de l'Eglise est a tue cent paroissionneurs. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)
The one is the incendiary shell -- obus fumigene -- while the other is a shell, the contents of which, upon coming into contact with the gas contained within the gas-bag, set up certain chemical reactions which precipitate an explosion and fire. ❋ Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (N/A)
(Brussels, 1885); _Influence du tir plongeant et des obus-torpilles sur la fortification_ (Brussels, 1888); _Les Régions fortifiées_ (Brussels, 1890); ❋ Various (N/A)
The elaborate trials which were carried out with the obus fumigene certainly were spectacular so as they went. ❋ Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (N/A)
Another _obus_ hurtled over us and shrieked away into the distance; and again the man beside me flinched, but I did not. ❋ Marion Polk Angellotti (1936)
All sorts of things have been happening since that _obus_ knocked you out. ❋ Marion Polk Angellotti (1936)
It was what the French call an _obus_, a word that in some subtle manner seems more menacing and dreadful than our own term of shell. ❋ Marion Polk Angellotti (1936)
For instance, to sections in Esaron Sector _obus_. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
Two thousand gold _obus_, the price of a hundred slaves. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
"Twenty hundreds of _obus_," the clerk who had been counting the money said. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
Oh, that poor town – when we reached it, along a road ploughed with fresh obus-holes, I didn't want to stop the motor; I wanted to hurry on and blot the picture from my memory! ❋ Unknown (1915)
She added calmly, as she dipped our plates into a tub, that an obus had just fallen a mile or two off, and that if we liked we could see the fighting from a garden over the way. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Yet that little piece of _obus_ lodged somewhere inside his skull, above his left ear, so the radiographist says, and he's paralyzed. ❋ Ellen Newbold La Motte (1917)
Amid rank unkempt fields I race over a road that is pitted with obus-holes; I pass ❋ Unknown (1916)
The French orderly turned up leading her, but his own horse had gone, -- as he ruefully explained, "à cause d'un obus qui a éclaté tout près dans l'eau." ❋ Edward Gleichen (1900)
« [Simon] decided to hang out with his friends instead of [fucking me]. I’ve been OBU’d »
« [My mum] called me as I was about to cum. She OBU’d me » ❋ Dankonso (2020)
are you [dating] [that guy] [yet]?
No, he is just my obu! ❋ Sally South (2010)
You are being charged with an [offence] of first-degree [obuse], by sitting your [250] pound body on a woman. ❋ Beryl-was-here (2010)
[That right there] is OBU [Charlie]. ❋ Melony & Andreah (2021)
Did the girl [break her] ankles when she jumped [off the bridge], [obus fuckin slee] ❋ Lil Priiit (2018)
Did the girl [break her] [ankles] when she jumped of [the bridge], obus fuckin slee ❋ Lil Priiit (2018)
"That fag still hasn't [come out of the closet] even when everyone knows his [sexual preference]!"
"I KNOW! OBUS! He's going to get a beating from the [sibs] when they find out!" ❋ Rachel Tara (2007)