It seemed as if nothing could prevent the projectiles from Kilid Bahr and the adjacent batteries ricochetting into Chanak and the forts on the Asiatic shore.
All across them the sea was churned by the ricochetting shells, while ever and anon a terrific waterspout accompanied by a dull roar showed that they were making good work in clearing away the hostile mines.
Shells from the Turkish defences were ricochetting all around the British warships or expending themselves harmlessly against the armoured plating.
They also had a nasty trick ofricochetting bullets at us by firing them just ahead on the ground.
The windows are broken and the tiles rush clattering into the street, while little bullets and bits of shell jump like red-hot devils from side to side of the street, ricochetting until their force is spent.
As a matter of fact the street was full of ricochetting trifles.
Those who were not slain by the direct explosion were killed by the fragments of metal ricochetting from the steel walls.
The fire was very heavy: it has always been a marvel to me that we did not lose more men, for the shot were ricochetting down the river as thick as hail, from junks moored across the creek in two lines at intervals.
A second shell, ricochetting a hundred yards off, leapt up and wrecked the after-funnel, causing dense volumes of smoke to eddy along the alleyways.
More than once they were splashed by the spray thrown up by a ricochetting projectile, as the German gunlayers were gradually correcting their aim, yet unscathed the rescue party came alongside the gradually sinking seaplane.
Shells from her guns were ricochetting on either side of the fleeing "Saraband," throwing up columns of spray fifty feet into the air.
Simultaneously the helm was starboarded, and the Pomfret Castle steered straight for the patch where the machine-gun bullets were ricochetting from the water.
All the while bullets were whizzing overhead, thudding against the debris that littered the ground, or ricochetting from the hard earth.
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