Indeed at night, shrapnel shell with fuse set at zero was frequently used.

The shrapnel shell was quickly adopted by the armies of all Europe's great powers.

To my left a shrapnel shell fell full on the line of the third squadron.

A shrapnel shell, unlike a conventional high-explosive artillery round, is designed as an anti-personnel weapon.

Common shell, shrapnel shell, and steel armor-piercing projectiles, have been approved for the 110½ ton gun.

That is the amount of destruction achieved in an unarmored ship by two rounds of shrapnel shell.

Then came the explosion of a shrapnel shell over their heads, and both leaped to their feet.

The shrapnel shell is shown at Fig.

The attacking gun was a twelve-ton nine-inch muzzle-loader, of the old despised type, and the projectiles were shrapnel shell.

With deadly accuracy, the flagship was hurling shrapnel shell over the heads of the bluejackets into the battery on shore.

They are very similar to shrapnel shell, composition stars made up in cylindrical paper cases taking the place of the bullets.

Thus the parados prevents a back-fire of the bullets carried in the shrapnel shell, which otherwise might strike the trench's defenders.

A shrapnel shell struck the back of my dug-out at the dressing station two nights ago, blowing all the walls down.

But as a matter of fact, it is extremely difficult to place a shrapnel shell so as to consummate this end.

Scarcely had he spoken when a shrapnel shell burst overhead, and three horses were lying on their backs, snorting and kicking.

One shell, however, struck the Zafir, passing through the deck and killing a Soudanese; and a shrapnel shell burst over the Fatteh.