Looking for sentences and phrases with the word lyddite? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Benzole cascaded through the torn plating on to the lyddite below, just as the Imro reversed propellor and pulled its bow clear in a shower of sparks.
The divers were able to confirm that the shell, packed with lyddite explosive, was fired either by HMS Swiftsure or HMS Triumph on exercise in the run-up to the Great War.
Examples from Classical Literature
Here a corner of one of the massive entrance pillars had been sharply severed off by a British lyddite shell.
A few of Buller's lyddite shells were bursting near him, and one shell was seen to strike his magazine and explode it.
Their clothing, hands and faces were stained yellow from the lyddite fumes.
Back to the British trenches also wafted the sickly fumes of lyddite and cresolite.
The explosion blackened our faces with lyddite and half-blinded us.
Its red glarePg 220 is followed by flame that does not come from lyddite.
The smell of the lyddite was nauseating, the uproar stupefying.
The gun uses shrapnel as well, but relies for its main effects on lyddite.
Major Elmslie threw altogether some 410 lyddite shells into Omdurman.
