The air was filled with shrieking shell and bursting shrapnel.

Among these some, either accidentally or by design, sent bursting shrapnel all around him.

There was a lull in the fighting, with only a few bursting shrapnel now and then.

After his second shot the Boers found him and made wonderful practice, bursting shrapnel all over him.

More so perhaps, than for the man in an aeroplane, not many yards distant from the bursting shrapnel.

She flew so high that she was hard to see until the bursting shrapnel gave us her line.

In spite of the bursting shrapnel, gunners from a near-by battery rushed out and recovered poor Rockwell's broken body.

Towering explosions in the east, a squall in the south; in the zenith a file of bursting shrapnel like suspended volcanoes.

The signal was given, the batteries at once opened fire, and the cliff was crowned with a circle of bursting shrapnel.

The officers halted and stared over the dead town of Poperinghe, where flash after flash of bursting shrapnel proclaimed a Boche aeroplane.

All around the plane, the air was full of the white puffs of bursting shrapnel, but the dainty man-bird flirted through them unscathed.

The sound of the guns was very near, and to the east of the town we could see an aeroplane haloed in bursting shrapnel.

One could be within a few hundred yards of the firing-line and literally not see a thing save the fleecy puffs of bursting shrapnel.

Absently, as if he had no connection with all that went on about him, he heard the twang of bursting shrapnel down the road.

The howling and crashing of the bursting shrapnel of course had its effect on those troops who were here under fire for the first time.

The morning of August 4th opened quietly for us, although gunfire could be heard, and bursting shrapnel could be seen in the direction of Duedar.