Star Shell

Word STAR SHELL
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The word "star-shell" in example sentences

He raised a flare pistol and fired a single star-shell round that burst directly over one of the shops. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (1988)

Anne Abbott was one of those exceedingly rare plain girls whose smiles completely transform them, as abruptly as the bursting of a star-shell. ❋ Blish, James (1957)

Lights flashed here and there, a mass of figures detached themselves from the gloom, and in the light of a star-shell Frank saw a detachment of American troops coming on the run! ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

Behind him a star-shell shot up, followed by another and another, together with strings of "blazing onions," until the broken field over which he was making his way became almost as bright as day. ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

Seven yards per minute is a snail's pace, but pretty good time in No Man's Land, where you must remain motionless each time a star-shell lights up the darkness around you and makes your discovery possible. ❋ William Benjamin West (N/A)

Or a flare from a star-shell might reveal him crouching beside his prisoner. ❋ Homer Randall (N/A)

At intervals over a little knoll in the direction of the trenches, a white star-shell falls slowly, making the trees and the guns among their tangle of hiding branches cast long green-black shadows, drowning the wood in a strange glare of desolation. ❋ John Dos Passos (1933)

Or he would hurl the bomb high into the air, so that it burst above the enemy like a rocket or a star-shell. ❋ Ernest Raymond (1931)

Bursting star-shell and questioning searchlight fought with the darkness, betraying to the guns the sinister black hulls driving through clouds of silver spray, the loaded tubes and streaming decks, the oilskin-clad figures on each bridge forcing the attack home against the devastating blast of the shrapnel. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)

The light of the star-shell waned and died away; the Corporal spoke to ❋ Patrick MacGill (1926)

I saw a man, outlined in black against the glow of a star-shell, struggling madly as he endeavoured to loose his clothing from the barbs on which it caught. ❋ Patrick MacGill (1926)

We passed through the lane made by the shell and flopped flat to earth on the other side when a German star-shell came across to inspect us. ❋ Patrick MacGill (1926)

When she gets partly in, off goes a star-shell that lights up the whole place, and they blow her out of the water in a moment. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Just then a star-shell burst above us, turning the trench into day. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Then a star-shell flared, and I read it: Oh, Flee From the Wrath to Come! ❋ Unknown (1916)

And then a star-shell sputtered ... it was even worse than I thought, ❋ Unknown (1916)

And he lunged upwards at the dangling figure in the light of the star-shell! ❋ D. H. Parry (1915)

A shell-burst eighty yards away drowned the crack of Dan Dunn's revolver, and two out of the three Germans who had taken refuge in the same place rolled back and lay very still, just as another star-shell, a bright white one this time, broke above them and lit up the hole like day. ❋ D. H. Parry (1915)

At the end of another quarter of a mile they took cover again very suddenly; no star-shell that time, but a very businesslike German high explosive, which scooped up tons of earth, and it was followed by another and another, which all burst in their immediate neighbourhood. ❋ D. H. Parry (1915)

"If I can only haul up high enough to get my knee on the first step it'll be all right," he thought, when something scrunched immediately underneath him, and he dangled motionless, as a brilliant star-shell burst directly overhead, making everything around as bright as day. ❋ D. H. Parry (1915)

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