Very lights
Example Sentences
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Very lights, anti-aircraft shells flashed brightly above them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest.
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
Half a dozen Very lights went up in rapid succession: we were discovered!
From On the right of the British line by Nobbs, Gilbert
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
