Very lights
Example Sentences
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Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
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Half a dozen Very lights went up in rapid succession: we were discovered!
From On the right of the British line by Nobbs, Gilbert
Instantly the "Very" lights began to go up in scores, and hell broke loose.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
One could distinguish flights of illuminated tracer bullets, and now and again what he took to be Very lights exposed the countryside.
From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert