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

The sudden turning of darkness into day by enemy Very lights imposed instantaneous immobility.

From The Riddle of the Rhine; chemical strategy in peace and war by Lefebure, Victor

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

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