lyddite

He was sick from the lyddite, and tired-tired to the depths of his soul.

The foam was tinged yellow with the lyddite of the bursting shell.

Many of them were yellow with lyddite.

One of these was a solid, and burst on impact with an explosive force equal to about twenty pounds of lyddite.

He stopped for the words came slowly, slurred a little from a brain dulled by the lyddite and the hammering of big guns.

The smell of the lyddite was awful.'

Experiments with high explosives carried out on the shingle wastes around 1888 led to the invention of the explosive Lyddite.

In this infernal fire, which left the rocks yellow with lyddite, the survivors still waited grimly for the advance of the infantry.

Until the stark outline of the ridge was blurred and indefinite in the dust and lyddite fumes.

The British started replacing lyddite with TNT in 1907.

Since 1888, Britain started manufacturing a very similar mixture in Lydd, Kent, under the name lyddite.

Rubble, fragments of plastered wall, broken rafters, the yellow splashes of lyddite everywhere.

Machine-gun fire, artillery shells, lyddite, hand-thrown bombs and a wall of rifle fire rained down on us.

To right to left, behind and before, the British shells burst, lyddite and shrapnel, crashing and riving.

The evil blossoms of greenish-yellow lyddite fumes bloomed quickly in the sunlight, then drifted oily thick on the wind.

British explosive filling for armour-piercing naval shells of the 1920s - 1930s, composed of Lyddite and dinitrophenol.

Lance soon left the battle with S115 to join Loyal in pummeling S119 with lyddite shells.

It was a form of picric acid used by France as melinite and by Britain as lyddite.

The primary ammunition was HE (high explosive) shells filled with Amatol, Trotyl or Lyddite.

The troopship carrying the Accrington Pals was narrowly missed by a torpedo; a fortunate miss because the ship also carried sixty tons of lyddite explosive.

They had done magnificently, but there is a limit to human endurance, and no longer would these peasants face the bursting lyddite and the bayonets of angry soldiers.

It was just five o'clock in the morning when the naval guns began to bay, and huge red dustclouds from the distant foothills showed where the lyddite was bursting.

Instead of "softening" the Boer positions, the explosions of lyddite shells against the facing slopes above their trenches merely alerted the Boers to the impending attack.

Germany had adopted trinitrotoluene (TNT) as the explosive filler for artillery shells in 1902, while the United Kingdom was still using a picric acid mixture (Lyddite).

The shell burst thunderously on the lower slopes and for an instant the lyddite smoke danced like a yellow ghost swirling and turning upon itself, before the wind drifted it up to them.