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
Almost immediately red Very lights went up within a stone's-throw as it seemed to me.
From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike
Suddenly the "Very" lights went up from the German side, literally in hundreds, illuminating the top of the ridge and the sky behind with a thin greenish white flare.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Holmes, Robert Derby
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
