They were shelled heavily, but it was the shelling of rearguards and not attackers, and soon after twelve o'clock we had the best of evidence that the Turks were saying good-bye to a neighbourhood they had long inhabited.

The group was furiously shelled, and one of the shells burst a few feet in rear of him, killing the horse of an officer near him, cutting the bridle-reins of others, and tearing up the ground in his immediate vicinity.

Ypres, however, was deliberately shelled into fragments day after day; and Arras is only a degree less carefully ruined.

Wash, divide, and lay, shells downward, on the top grate of the oven, or place in a shallow baking dish with a little boiling water.

A gunboat advanced under a heavy fire and poured shot into the jungle on both sides of the river and shelled the enemy's position at Guadalupe, effectually but temporarily scattering the rebels.

While continuing to shell fiercely he put more infantry into his fighting line, and as we had only 1200 rifles and four mountain guns, which the enemy's artillery outranged, it was clear we could not dislodge him from the Beitunia crest.

Pretty shells gleam here and there; and on the face of the rock there are more limpets, barnacles and mussels than we can count.

I gave his mate a goodly spiral-shell: We stalked its inmate on the Icarian rocks And ate him, parted fivefold among five.

The shores appear to abound with shellfish, although Dampier thought that shells hereabouts were scarce.

The Austrians shelled us intermittently, but without doing any damage.

Bright as the silvery plume, or pearly shell, 200

Where would be the sense of my writing you that the battle-front has settled down to uncomfortable trench work on the Aisne; that Manoury is holding the line in front of us from Compiègne to Soissons, with Castelnau to the north of him, with his left wing resting on the Somme; that Maud'huy was behind Albert; and that Rheims cathedral had been persistently and brutally shelled since September 18?

It was a magnificent basement, with heavy arched roofs everywhere, and practically shell-proof.

Then it may get a score of shells in ten minutes; or it may be shelled regularly every day for ensuing weeks.

And now I saw Arras, and, for the first time, a town that had been systematically and ruthlessly shelled.

The base of the island is wholly composed of limestone, in which shells scarcely, if ever, appear.

The Turks had registered well and severely shelled our position before making an assault, and they covered the advance with machine guns.

And now I saw Arras, and, for the first time, a town that had been systematically and ruthlessly shelled.

ON DEAD MAN'S HILL "Once when two of our regiments came over a hill and saw the valley that lay before them being terrifically shelled by the cannon and assailed by hail from the machine guns, the whole column was seen to pause and a look of worry came over the faces of these men that for just an instant was pitiful.

The mocker-nut, with seven or nine leaflets, a hard, thick-shelled nut, and leaflets and twigs very downy when young, and strongly odorous.

The trench of the British ended at a village which was vigorously shelled by the Germans, and was practically in ruins.

Potent and shapely, ne'ertheless, Draws the rogue his flexible limbs, Body firm yet elastic, Craftily forth; the purple shell, Him so grievously binding, Leaving quietly in its place; As the perfected butterfly, From the rigid chrysalid, Pinion unfolding, rapidly glides, Boldly and wantonly sailing through Sun-impregnated ether.

First they violently shelled our position and silenced one of our batteries.

The larger the shells the more deeply are they embedded.