282 Verbs to Use for the Word shell

The biggest mortars threw 13-inch 224-lb shells to a great distance.

But when gas was expected, one welcomed heavy rain and high winds and loud explosions from bursting shells.

It is easy enough to break the shell for the growing chick, but if you break it too soon your chick, when hatched, will be dead.

The Turks tried again and again to secure the hill, which commands a track to Bethlehem, but, although they fired 400 shells at the position, they could not enter it, and a battalion sent up to relieve the Middlesex men next morning found that the company had driven the enemy off, its casualties having amounted to only 2 killed and 17 wounded.

Now let us do the same, and sayIf this strange dream be true, and the lowlands of the North were once under an icy sea, ought we not to find sea-shells in their sands and clays?

But the enemy never discovered any of us, though he sometimes dropped a few stray shells in our neighbourhood.

The tide was low, and they went for a long walk over the hard shining sand, followed by Archie picking up wonderful shells and slipping on the green seaweed.

The possession of this fort was strongly contested, the Russians bringing up field-batteries; the French were also fired on heavily by three steamers, which, circling round, fired broadsides into them, and batteries sent shells from the north side of the harbor into the French support.

Here and there, however, this hardened mud of the ancient sea reveals the remains of higher animals which have lived and died, and left their hard parts in the mud, just as the oysters die and leave their shells behind them, in the mud of the present seas.

One cracked the shell and found icicles beneath, and miserably held fragments of egg in one's mouth until they thawed!

Boil eggs until hard; remove the shells.

Then Toscanini took command of what surely was one of the strangest concerts in the world, played in the moonlight, in an hour of glory, on a mountain top, which to the Italians had become an almost legendary name, to an audience of two contending Armies, amid the rattle of machine guns, the rumble of cannon, and the crashes of exploding shells.

We have never heard that Newport is a good place for gathering sea-shells, but we presume you can shell out there if you wish.

And there comes little Pepito to blow the conch shell that he uses for a dinner bell.

Kurt took four shells and set them, end up, on the roof of the car close to him.

On another occasion, later in the bombardment, when Madero insisted that the Federal artillery should use explosive shells against the Citadel, General Huerta did not hesitate to take it upon himself to countermand the President's suggestions to Colonel Navarrete, the Federal chief of artillery.

And his puzzle will not be lessened when he is told that, in some cases, as in that of the summit of Snowdon, these very volcanic ashes contain fossil shells.

Drain and mix with the White grapes and with 1/3 cup maraschino cherries and fill apple shells.

He can't sleep at night; he keeps on hearing shells; and if he does sleep he dreams about them and wakes up screaming.

We've got the shells, we've got the guns (The same that overwhelmed the Huns),

These paniers are carefully constructed of wicker and hold three shells in exactly fitting tubes so that there can be no movement.

I say not may, but must, unless we are to believe in a "Deus quidam deceptor," in a God who puts shells upon mountain-sides only to befool honest human beings, and gives men intellects which are worthless for even the simplest work.

As the Queen Mary, Indefatigable and the two torpedo boats fell back, still the center of German fire and still hurling shell, seeking their proper places in the battle line, the other British vessels came on.

He telephoned directions for the firing and through glasses watched the bursting shells.

Then he gave Maguayan a little golden shell and explained to him its wonderful power.

282 Verbs to Use for the Word  shell