Very lights
Example Sentences
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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
The whole horizon was alight with bursting shells and Very lights.
From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)
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
And there was no sight of the airplanes that Dick had just seen taking off from the invisible tarmac. ick fired two Very lights as a signal to his flight to scatter.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
