1 Near where they stood shells were flip-flapping and hooting.
2 Shells thrown in reply were raising clouds of dust and splinters.
3 The song of the bullets was in the air and shells snarled among the treetops.
4 From a position in the rear of the grove a battery was throwing shells over it.
5 As he, leading, went across a little field, he found himself in a region of shells.
6 A shell screaming like a storm banshee went over the huddled heads of the reserves.
7 In the rear of this row of guns stood a house, calm and white, amid bursting shells.
8 A battery had trundled into position in the rear and was thoughtfully shelling the distance.
9 He smiled briefly when he saw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were thrown in giant handfuls over them.
10 The shells, which had ceased to trouble the regiment for a time, came swirling again, and exploded in the grass or among the leaves of the trees.
11 With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of facetious advice concerning places of safety.
12 The guns in the rear, aroused and enraged by shells that had been thrown burr-like at them, suddenly involved themselves in a hideous altercation with another band of guns.