Very lights
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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
They said it bugge or even bwg, but then they were more afraid of specters in those days than we, who imprison will-o'-the-wisps in Very lights, and rub fox-fire on our watch faces.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
As we swung out along the once good but now badly furrowed French road, we could see the Very lights beginning to go up far off to the left, showing where the lines were.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
Experiments were made with flags, with written messages carried back and dropped to the gunners, and finally with coloured Very lights.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
