We could watch the columns of smoke as they rolled up from the scene of carnage, and see the flashes of bursting shells, like sheets of lightning in dark thunder-clouds, and hear the tremendous roar of arms.
Soon we saw above the valley that lay before us, clouds of smoke and the white puffs of bursting shells.
Bursting shells on the right of his line told of the presence of the enemy.
Quickly the enemy discovered their whereabouts and laid down a barrage fire which, with deadly accuracy, plowed up their old front line and tossed it about on the pitchforks of bursting shells.
Yet the business went on through the darkness of the afternoon, and into the deeper darkness of the night, lit luridly at moments by the white illumination of German flares and by the flash of bursting shells.
Banks of smoke made a pall over all the arena of war, and it was stabbed and torn by the incessant flash of bursting shells.
He doubted whether he could stir up courage at the critical moment to leap over the parapet into the impending tornado of machine-gun bullets and pulverizing, bursting shells.
Already the line ofbursting shells was a couple of hundred yards away.
The earth trembled, and the sky was lurid with the flashes of bursting shells, as rapidly the strongly constructed pill-boxes were beaten into fragments of riven concrete.
A quarter of an hour more and that blackness ahead would be pierced by the blinding rays of the inexorable searchlights and stabbed by the fierce flashing of artillery, the glare of bursting shells, and the radiance of star rockets.
Bursting shells threw up their columns of white or black fog around the edge of the panorama.
She has been under fire in many hot skirmishes, and has helped bring away the wounded from the fighting around Ghent when her own life might have paid the forfeit for defiance to bursting shells.
Outside, the air was filled with the spume and shriek of bursting shells.
In all directions, on roadside, field and hill, geysers were rising, and yawning yellow craters forming from the impact of bursting shells.
It was even then being swept by a tornado of screaming, bursting shells, scattering far and wide fumes of mustard and chlorine, a single inhalation of which meant unspeakable agony and death.
The day had been fairly calm, with the usual quantity of bursting shells overhead, and nothing forewarned us of a German attack.
It was in a Flemish cottage, where a young lieutenant, a little drunk, sang a love-song among his comrades, while a little way off men were being maimed and killed by bursting shells.
She had a gravity in her eyes which I had not seen before in England, and yet, afterwards, I heard her laughter ring out within a little distance of bursting shells.
The first lot of men, or rather the remainder of them, had disappeared in the haze and smoke, punctured by bursting shells.
Whether they were splinters from the bursting shells or bullets from machine guns I could not tell, but it got so hot at last that I judged it wise to take cover.
After going along in this way for about three hundred yards, and occasionally ducking my head to avoid being hit by bursting shells, we came to a ruined barn.
High up in the air, over the two great opposing hosts, he saw the white smoke of bursting shells.
For every three rifle ball wounds, we get two caused by shrapnel and about one quarter by fragments of bursting shells.
Disobeying orders, we hurried forward, overtaking the officers, and to our amazement we learned that the explosions were not of bursting shells; but the firing of our own battery hidden behind the tracks!
Their fire was joined by that from all the other galleries, while the machine-guns from Brieulles swept a field of targets revealed by the light of bursting shells.
The German machine-gunners, as they saw that hurricane of bursting shells approaching, rushed to cover, which they hugged in desperate and prayerful intimacy as it passed over them.
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