The vessels transporting the invading forces were huge, spherical shellsequipped with short-range drives--and with nothing else.
High-explosive shells bored deep and detonated, hurling shattered rock and soil and yellow smoke far and wide; establishing new craters by destroying the ones existing a moment before.
The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave; And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me.
In the stalks of wheat and Indian corn, as indeed of all the grasses, the flinty surface is constituted largely of silex; as the shells of crustacea and the bones of animals are composed mostly of lime.
He was made an Ollyoola with all the native rites, dancing and shrieking and so on, and he wore the correct Ollyoola dress (a few shells and his hair trained on sticks to stand straight up).
He had a handkerchief in his hand full of foreign shells and old-fashioned pieces of small money, very curious, and he walked up to the well outside his mother's house and drew himself a drink as if he had been nowhere in particular.
Sometimes she fitted several sets of the empty shells together, that they might take up less room; and altogether she showed that she perfectly understood her business.
Therefore, as a matter of fact, the older eggs got the larger share of the brooding, in exact proportion; and the building of the little lives within the shells went on with almost perfect uniformity.
Very simple," his master replied, "I saw a lot of oyster shells in the fireplace, and the answers to a few questions were all I needed to make a diagnosis.
The flaming field of muck leaped up to meet him and shells burst close.
Black and white blooms of bursting shells bracketed them as their leader slid into the curtain of fire.
They sighted it because of the thick muck of flaming shells and the searchlights knifing back and forth through the mass of bursting steel.
The smoke was stabbed by blossoming shells hurling ragged pieces of iron in every direction.
The AA shellswere bursting close under their noses.
Then the field of blossoming shells was above them and the deck below was big.
The dull rapping of anti-aircraft shells beating against the heavy dome above smashed back the roar of his motor.
Tracer bullets trailed threads of fire upward and the muck of bursting shells was thick below.
It was great, if you didn't meet one of thoseshells on its way up.
Shells from the pocket battleship sent up huge columns of water alongside.
The cruisers and the destroyers were throwing shells into the sky recklessly and at the same time pounding to pieces two floundering Nazi battleships.
Up ahead shells were bursting in the sky and the thunder of big guns rolled up to them.
The plane swayed and shuddered as big shells burst close to her.
A single shot at the water line will make a leak, hot shot will set her on fire, and exploding shellsmay derange her machinery.
Still one would think that a few shellsexpended while the batteries were in progress would be of more service than an equal number after their completion.
Their guns from across the river began to throw heavy shells over us, and as the light grew better it developed into an artillery duel which lasted throughout the day.
An aero squadron flew to Stuttgart, which is about 140 miles due east from Nancy, and dropped thirty shells on the palace of the King of Württemberg and the railway station of the town.
During most of the long hot day General Fry's brigade occupied a position in front of the Horseshoe Marsh, subjected to a constant shower of shells from quick-firing guns.
It is not difficult to spot shells when only a few batteries are firing, but when perhaps a hundred guns are dropping shells on a half-mile front of trench, a highly trained eye is required.
Poison shells and liquid fire played an important part in the furious fighting that was gradually developing in the Vosges, and assisted the Germans to gain some initial successes.
Early in the morning of that day the towns of Whitehaven, Parton, and Harrington, on the western coast of England, were aroused in succession by the boom of guns and the falling of shells in their streets.
Not long after the first Austro-German guns began hurling their shells across the Danube, against the Serbian position at Semendria, the Serbians learned of the disposition and the resources of the enemy.
Finally it is incorrect that a number of shells were still fired at the steamer after it had stopped.
Workshops, whereshells were made, came in for a heavy aerial bombardment.
Little by little the foreign naval guns in Belgrade had been silenced by the big shells of the German howitzers.
It seemed to me that our shells were bursting perilously near, and I asked them to cease fire.
With these he began a vigorous bombardment of the Bulgarian trenches, raining a continuous shower of shrapnel and high explosive shells on them.
Through the emptiness of the air, when the dogs were not howling, resounded only a terrible, ferocious silence, that seemed to call up mocking memories of the noise the shells had been making incessantly, ever since two nights ago.
It's the high-explosive shells that we mind most," says a Belgian Lieutenant to an English Tommy.
To be directly northward was clearly desirable, as the shells would come from southward.
When danger comes your way this illusion will begin to weave a sort of fairy haze around you, making you feel that those shrieking shells can never fall on you!
The Germans had tried hard to shell it, but their shells had fallen across the road instead.
They tell us that shellsare falling about five miles out, on Vieux Dieux.
This is because the German shells have smashed the Waterworks at Wavre S.
Which reminds me that I quite forgot to say I caught the old lady putting the shells of the hard-boiled egg into the coffee-pot!
One's brain reels before the immensity of this thing that is happening here; a city is being evacuated by a million inhabitants; the city is in flames and shells are raining down on it; yet the cook is making soup in the kitchen.
She had been near too many bursting shells and burning houses and seen too many people killed.
It was here that I first saw shrapnel shells and noticed the little white puffs of smoke, which for all the world looked like the steam let off by an ordinary locomotive.
I should not wonder if this were so, for shells must certainly have dropped in the moat, and in so doing must have disturbed them at the very roots.
It is correct to say that the drive was conducted under shell-fire, but no one must suppose that shells were exploding at everybody's feet.
I shall not give any account of my feelings when hearing for the first time a great cannonade, or seeing shells burst, or catching a glimpse of the German line.
It appeared that the chauffeur had found the rendezvous too hot for him, after two shells burst not a dozen yards away from the car, and he retreated therefore to a safe corner, where we found him talking to a fellow- soldier.
I may add, that Schmidt was also induced to consider the shells of Cirripedia as having the same nature with those of Mollusca, from finding that in the above 96.
Schmidt's belief that the Cirripedia were intermediate between Crustacea and Mollusca, in the shells of which latter, the animal basis consists of albuminates.
The several species occur imbedded in soft calcareous rocks, in massive corals, and in the shells of mollusca and of cirripedes.
Unlike any Indians we had previously seen, these wore shells in their noses.
The little Natal guns, firing with obsolete black powder, threw a few shells into the station, one of which, it is said, penetrated a Boer ambulance which could not be seen by the gunners.
Mr. Winston Churchill has left it upon record that within his own observation three of their shrapnel shells fired at a venture on to the reverse slope of a hill accounted for nineteen men and four horses.
To right to left, behind and before, the British shells burst, lyddite and shrapnel, crashing and riving.
Spectators from below who saw the shells pitching at the rate of seven a minute on to the crowded plateau marvelled at the endurance which held the devoted men to their post.
On that date the Boers brought up two 12-pounder guns, and the first of that interminable flight of shells fell into the town.
Another shell pitched over them, and the officer in command lowered his field-glass in despair as he saw his own shellsbursting far short upon the hillside.
From time to time the great gun tossed its huge shells into the town, but boardwood walls and corrugated-iron roofs minimise the dangers of a bombardment.
Smoke and flames from the dongas told that some of our shells had fallen among the wagons and their combustible stores.
So severe was the fire that the guns were obscured by the dust knocked up by the little shells of the automatic gun.
On the morning of the 13th his force could hear the heavy firing to the eastward, and could even see the shells bursting on the top of the Magaliesberg.
Stones from Tennessee, fossils, and other specimens, for sea-shells and other curiosities.
Reckon I near broke my poor mule's back with the load ofshells an' guns.
Somers lit a cigarette; Springer wiped his face with a grimy hand and counted the shells in his belt, which appeared to be half empty.
Then by strange coincidence his comrades had happened to come across him and, recognizing the situation, they had taken the shells from his guns and propped him up with the idea of luring Jean on.
Aplysia in regard to their shells and the form of the visceral hump.
It was known that the enterprise was a desperate one; powder-barrels and live shells by hundreds were embedded in the earth just at the foot of the deadly breach, all ready for an explosion.
At times the air was full of shells bursting in all directions, but still this noble little garrison held out, and repeatedly drove their assailants back.
The enemy had the range of our trenches to a nicety, and could drop their shells into them just as they liked.
At the Alma his lordship was in the thick of the fight, giving his orders as calmly as if no bullets or shells were flying around him.
This state of things, together with the fear of being attacked by superior forces, or that they would hurl shells into that sepulchre, made us huddle confusedly into the outer court as soon as we found the way.
Do you see how the bombs and shells shower about us, and how numbers of my companions fall never to rise?
And these rocks may be discovered if one will, and pebbles and shells may be gathered, and we may bathe at the favourite dipping-place of Portague, or we may ramble to the nice little church of Grouville, dated 1312.
The blocks are studded with minute univalves, and the patella shells of the limpet show like bosses on a shield.
The minute shells which diatoms make consist of Opal, and when these dead shells accumulate to form deposits of some extent we call the powdery substance tripoli and use it for polishing silverware and other metals.
For this purpose he opened his batteries against the castle, and at the same time threw a number of shells into the town.
The harbour is also defended by a small fort, built of tappy, which is a kind of cement composed of oyster-shells beat small, and mixed with lime and water, which when dry becomes hard and durable.
The stones and shells did look better, according to Midget's way of thinking, after she had vigorously scrubbed the moss from them.
But as she stood watching them, she observed the green mossy slime that covered the stones and shells at the bottom of the aquarium, and it occurred to her that it would be a good idea to clean them.
But no sign of life came from the four victims, who calmly floated on top of the water, as if scorning the clean white stones and shells below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
