There were barnacles growing in those cracks, and scattered here and there like shrapnel bursts of bone were the shells the gulls had dropped to get at the soft meat inside.

Once a shrapnel burst struck the hull near the bows, and it rang like a great gong.

He heard the rip-crash of shrapnel bursts, and the Sopwith rocked dangerously in the tornado of passing shot, but the shells were all fused too long.

The air all around him was studded with shrapnel bursts.

Heager didn't know where Saxler was, but Ferdi was still beside him, half blind, blood running down his face from a shrapnel burst.

The ball of smoke hung in the sky like a shrapnel burst, and as I watched, another rocket came up to it, trickling smoke in the bright sunlight.

The first shrapnel bursts clanged across the sky, and burst in bright gleaming cotton pods of smoke above the roofs of Fordsburg, cracking the sky and the waiting silence, with startling violence.

The artillery barrage would not have affected the strikers under cover, for it was limited to shrapnel bursts.

And when they reached the plains of Agualta Vale the green sea of sugar-cane and bananas stretched away to where the distant fringe of glittering shrapnel bursts marked the palm-groves along the north coast.

On 28 April 1945 she suffered damage from a shrapnel burst which wounded 15 of her crew.