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“I crouched down with my men -- we were in open formation -- and ducked my head at the sound of the bursting 'obus' and trembled in every limb as though I had a fit of ague.”
“Children know the different aeroplanes by sight, and one little girl, when I ask her for news, gives me a list of the "obus" that have arrived, and which have "s'éclaté," and which have not.”
“The shells, which the Parisians called "obus," were like an old-fashioned sugar-loaf, and weighed sometimes one hundred and fifty pounds.”
“Dis lil burdy bringing owt geek in awl obus, aifinkso.”
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“Un anecdote vraiment triste est du 29 mars 1918, un obus allemand est tombe sur la nef de l'Eglise est a tue cent paroissionneurs.”
“The elaborate trials which were carried out with the obus fumigene certainly were spectacular so as they went.”
“The one is the incendiary shell -- obus fumigene -- while the other is a shell, the contents of which, upon coming into contact with the gas contained within the gas-bag, set up certain chemical reactions which precipitate an explosion and fire.”
“(Brussels, 1885); _Influence du tir plongeant et des obus-torpilles sur la fortification_ (Brussels, 1888); _Les Régions fortifiées_ (Brussels, 1890);”
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“Another _obus_ hurtled over us and shrieked away into the distance; and again the man beside me flinched, but I did not.”
“All sorts of things have been happening since that _obus_ knocked you out.”
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