A shell burst close," said a Lancashire fellow, "and I was buried up to the neck.
No shell burst over it, but a little smoke rolled above its houses.
A sergeant of machine-gunners stood in a bit of a trench with his team when a shell burst, killing two men and wounding others.
One day the Paymaster was going into our Headquarters, when a shell burst in the Square and some fragments landed in our street taking off the fingers of his right hand.
Once while I was talking to the men in the shelter, a shell burst by the side of the road and ignited a pile of German ammunition.
One day a shell burst in a hut used by some Railway Troops.
We had hardly arrived at the heaps of rubbish which surrounded the entrance to the dressing station, beside which lay the blackened body of a dead man, when a shell burst, and one of the bits broke the leg of the young fellow I was talking to.
He had watched our ablutions in silence for a minute or so, when a shell burst almost in the doorway and flung him into the water below our bunks, where he sat with his right arm red and rent, sagging at his side.
A shell burst 60 yards ahead, and the mules reared; some lay down, kicked over the traces, and the wheel pair managed to get their legs over the centre pole of the limber.
I mounted a motor-cycle and started on my way, but I hadn't gone far when a shell burst right in my path and made a huge crater, into which I slipped.
My friend ducked his head when a shell burst near as we all have done often enough, but the young aristocrat kept his head as high and stiff as if he were being crowned.
We had just lifted him up when a shell burst right on top of us, and knocked us all down.
In earlier stages of the bombardment people showed little alarm after they had got over the first shock of hearing a shell burst.
A little later two ladies were driving down the main street when a shell burst just in front of their trap.
One I saw quietly knitting in the cool, shaded stoep, and her busy needles only stopped for one moment, when a shell burst in the roadway beyond, then went on again as nimbly as ever.
While standing near by us a shell burst as it passed him, tearing his clothes and wounding him severely.
Before he could answer the question a shell burst at our gun, from which an iron ball an inch in diameter struck me on the right thigh-joint, tearing and carrying the clothes in to the bone.
Pretty soon Chew's battery was answered, and for the first time I saw and heard a shell burst, high in the air, leaving a little cloud of white smoke.
A shell burst near to the spot on which he was standing with his staff, and bespattered the whole party with splinters and sand.
But still, the remainder fought gallantry on till a shell burst one of the little vessel's steam pipes and destroyed her steering-gear.
A shell burst close to the house of a lawyer named Sidorski, and wrecked the building; M.
Suddenly a shell burst over my head and it got me right in the back.
I picked one chap up who had been shot, and asked for someone to come and help me, and the two of us were picking him up when a shell burst between us.
In the Eye While looking over the top of the trench a shell burst in front, and something hit me in the eye.
How I got out of it I do not know, for I had not gone 200 yards before a shell burst under my horse and killed it.
And I remember the flash of some shot and a shell burst I think, and I can’t remember anything more.
A shell burst behind an English lieutenant in 1914 without causing any wound but making him unconscious for an hour.
An artillery officer had had a shell burst to the left side of his horse, which veered to the right but did not fall.
The signalman ran hurriedly off to make the semaphore, but before he could cross the plateau a shell burst overhead, and he fell headlong.
A shell burst on the ridge, and the jagged fragments screaming past him woke him from his nightmare to catch sight of Glover's scared face as he stood at his side.
While we were watching the bombardment from a rise in the Waelhem road a shell burst in the hamlet of Waerloos, whose red- brick houses were clustered almost at our feet.
As we ran alongside the deserted quays a shell burst with a terrific crash in a street close by, and our boatman, panic-stricken, suddenly reversed his engine and backed into the middle of the river.
When a shell burst some of them would scream and cower or start to run, but more of them would stop in their tracks and gibber and laugh and clap their hands like excited children.
I reached for one eagerly, but just as my fingers closed about it a shell burst overhead.
A minute later the destroyer's for'ard 12-pounder fired, and a shell burstjust in front of the toll-house.
Yes, old sonny; either her boiler blew up or a shell burst there.
For the last month it had not been possible to go on deck without seeing a gun fired or a shell burst.
At the same moment a shell burst on the other side of the crater, flinging an iron rain into the already terrified mob, and half burying a man who had been descending into the pit.
A shell burst close to them and rattled the corrugated iron, bringing a shower of earth down in front of the dug-out door.
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