The interior space was honeycombed with holes made by the shells.

HONEYCOMB in French, who has translated it as follows, without understanding the Original.

Its church, used as a range-finder, apparently, was a gray honeycomb from which each day a few shells took another bite.

Sweet wine in little cups they sipped, And golden honeycomb Into their bowls of cream they dipped, Whipt light and white as foam.

The first Napoleon had the ground honeycombed under him by his enemies, who could not be suppressed, nor their labors be made to cease, even by his stern system of repression.