6869 examples of shelling in sentences

British artillery is with the Italian Army, and British guns have been shelling military quarters and stores in the outskirts of Trieste, while British monitors are co-operating at sea.

Suddenly, ten minutes before the time set for the advance, every British gun within range broke out with a hurricane of shelling, and solid lines of crimson lightning belched from the German trenches as the explosives broke about them.

They were shelling and silencing the enemy artillery.

On the other side along the highway between Septsarge and Dannevoux the Germans had entrenched themselves and were shelling the road which the Americans had crossed.

French warships of light draft later joined the British monitors and destroyers and assisted in patrolling the coast, shelling German positions wherever the latter could be discovered by the aeroplane scouts.

There is a risk of shelling our own men now.

After the shelling had continued for some time the usual order was given to "abandon ship," and a little later the periscope of the submarine was sighted some distance away.

The Germans had charged after shelling the town, and then the French had fallen backor at least so we deduced from the looks of things.

It was built to do custom flour and feed grinding, also corn shelling, and is in successful operation at the present time.

The field for the use of wind mills is almost unlimited, and embraces pumping water, drainage, irrigation, elevating, grinding, shelling, and cleaning grain, ginning cotton, sawing wood, churning, running stamp mills, and charging electrical accumulators.

As they pursued their jog-trot journey along the Salt Hay Road, and came to Ephraim Morse's cottage, they saw Susan sitting in a shady little porch, at the front door, shelling peas, and looking down the bay.

" We then determined to try shelling the Indians with the howitzers and I started back to find the pack mules.

Two burst and a call came from Bernard's men that we were shelling their rear guard.

The ordeal of Paris has been renewed by shelling from the German long-distance gun, the last and most sensational of German surprise-packets.

This is the burden of the "Song of Plenty" from an old soldier to a young one: The shelling's cruel bad, my son, But don't you look too black, For every blessed German one He gets a dozen back

" "Any shelling?" "A little this morning.

The destruction was not all the result of one bombardment, for the British had been shelling Neuve Chapelle off and on all winter.

"They are shelling X again," or, "They have been leaving Z alone for a long time," is a part of the gossip up and down the line.

"It's dull up here when the Boches are not shelling, so we let our imaginations play.

SIGEL'S TRANSPORTATION IN MISSOURI SHELLING THE HILL AT PEA RIDGE GENERAL NELSON'S DIVISION CROSSING THE TENNESSEE RUNNING THE BATTERIES AT ISLAND NUMBER TEN THE REBEL CHARGE

The imaginative eye can see the most unpleasant possibilities, from a general overrunning of Japan by the Chinaman, who is far the most important foreign resident, to the shelling of Tokio by a joyous and bounding Democracy, anxious to vindicate her national honour and to learn how her newly-made navy works.

Then he began taking the corn and shelling it off from the cob, by rubbing it against the edge of the board.

Dangerous place, London!" We rattle through a brave little town, which is "carrying on" in the face of paralysed trade and periodical shelling.

They are shelling my front parapet, at L8, with pretty heavy stuff.

Shelling had recommenced; the enemy were mustering in force behind the village; and presently a series of counter-attacks were launched.

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