Very lights
Example Sentences
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Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
One could distinguish flights of illuminated tracer bullets, and now and again what he took to be Very lights exposed the countryside.
From Simon Called Peter by Keable, Robert
Anyhow for quite a spell afterwards they were very "windy" and would send up the "Very" lights on the slightest provocation and start the "typewriters" a-rattling.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
Instantly the "Very" lights began to go up in scores, and hell broke loose.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
