The French high-explosive shell obus torpille or obus a melinite was adopted in 1886.
The obus a mitraille adopted in 1883 for field and siege guns had a cast-iron disc for its base with the body built up of segments and steel balls; a hollow ogival head surmounted this and a thin steel envelope bound all together.
The obus a couronnes de balles (1879) was practically a segment shell with cast-iron balls in lieu of segments; thin iron partitions separated each layer, and the balls were flattened where they came in contact with the plates.
The obus a balles libres, adopted in 1880, were of the same type, but there were no separating plates.
The obus a anneaux was simply a ring shell of the same type as used in England.
Barbicane, "you would not have stayed there long in spite of your diving-dress; you would have burst like an obusby the expansion of air inside you, or rather like a balloon that goes up too high.
Without paying attention to the few obus which the Boches sent over in reply to our storm, we all mounted the parapets to get a view of the scene.
He had on his new topcoat and his mended helmet--catch a young soldier who has been hit on the head by his first obus having a new and unscarred one.
I suspect," said the former, "that we shall soon have worse calamities to endure than the Prussian obus and the black loaf.
Just then an obusfell a few yards before the group.
He heard unconsciously: from time to time an obus hissed and splintered close at his feet;--he saw with abstracted eye.
Chanoir, one day, as Aline related in high glee an obus episode that she had had that morning; "but I really believe you have no feeling.
If, however, the obus was frequently fatal to Mlle.
The elaborate trials which were carried out with the obus fumigene certainly were spectacular so as they went.
Maintes fois expose a des bombardements violents, a ete a deux reprises atteint au visage et au corps par des eclats d'obus pendant cette derniere periode.
A un endroit particulierement expose, au moment ou les obus tombaient avec violence, a arrete sa voiture pour prendre des blesses qu'il a aide a charger avec le plus grand calme, donnant ainsi preuve de courage et de sang-froid.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
