shellburst

'My dear chap, so we notice,', murmured Campion, and he smiled apologetically at the girl now disentangling herself from the shellburst of newsprint.

The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989

He glimpsed a shellburst -- soundless, misty -- but was at once past the Six Day War, or had that been the War of Independ­ence or the First World War?

Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970

She remembered scorched corpses in the fortress ruins; she thought how small Matilda had screamed during the siege of Darova, each time a shellburst rocked the walls; she thought of green English woods where she had gone hawking with her lord in the first years of their marriage, and of the years he now expected to spend fighting for a goal she could not understand.

The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

This was because of their size-big as a peasant's cottage-and the thick steel plating which could withstand all but a direct shellburst.

The High Crusade Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1960

Engine Room Artificer Frank McGarry had been up forward since the beginning of the action, and without waiting for orders he had flooded the petrol compartment — where one spark, let alone a flash from a shellburst, would cause an explosion.

Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

As they wrapped about her, clinging to her sole earthly friend and guardian as though she could never let go, came the crash of the driving-charge, the yelling Brocken-hunt of the passage of the huge projectile, the ear-splitting din of the shellburst.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

He administered to the wounded and returned to his own company when a shellburst injured a number of its men.

Heraldstandard.com: Home1 RSS feed 2010

The army's use of white phosphorus - which makes a distinctive shellburst of dozens of smoke trails - was reported first by The Times on January 5, when it was strenuously denied by the army.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

The army’s use of white phosphorus – which makes a distinctive shellburst of dozens of smoke trails – was reported first by The Times on January 5, when it was strenuously denied by the army.

Awwwwwwwwwkward. CC 2009

But her face was impassive and stern, and her eyes, looking over Saxham's great shoulder as he stood silently watching at the bottom of the ladder stairway, imposed silence on the busy, observant, tactful Sisters, who continued their labours without a break, as the sewing hand went diligently to and fro, and the recurrent convulsive shudders shook the girl's slight frame, and the irrepressible cry of anguish was wrung from her at each ear-splitting shellburst.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897