Verey

Anthony Verey is a London antiques dealer eager to spend his retirement in the area, where his sister, a garden designer, also lives with her lover, a painter named Kitty.

Volatile Human Relations in a Capricious World Donna Rifkind 2010

Temporary bewilderment of the calculation destroyed reliance on any putative guides such as 'Verey' lights, shells, rifle fire, &c., which on these occasions appeared to come from all directions, and English and German seemed all alike.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

Arras little more than an occasional "Verey" light from the Fritz line played hesitatingly on the grotesque landscape.

Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq

As Rosemary Verey who landscaped her country garden said – 'if you sell the house the garden isn't yours any more.'

The Saturday interview: Anne Robinson on leaving Weakest Link 2011

If their ammunition is exploded into the air the sky is crisscrossed with a perfect firework display, and if the tank happens to be carrying a quantity of Verey lights they shoot all over the place in the craziest colored pattern.

Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973

We walked out, and saw a veritable Brock's Benefit display of Verey lights.

With the British Army in The Holy Land

The Verey Lights and various S.O.S. rockets, which were frequently sent up by our opponents, made a fine spectacular display, far finer than any firework exhibition we had ever witnessed in our own country in pre-war days.

Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

It felt distinctly eerie as the small column proceeded silently on its way without showing lights of any description; the stillness and darkness broken now and again by the barking of a gun as we drew nearer the battery zone, and by an occasional Verey Light, which seemed to reveal us in all our nakedness.

Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

When things were quiet again I distinctly heard plonk, plonk, plonk, the sound made by hand grenades, rising from the lower ground in front, this was soon followed by the fainter cracking of a machine gun and a brilliant Verey light, which I concluded was from three to four miles away.

'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Gerald Featherstone Knight

Now they sent up a red Verey light signal, whereupon a hostile barrage came down upon our trenches, under cover of which they not only withdrew themselves, but also removed their killed and wounded.

With the British Army in The Holy Land