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
After the manœuvres the Gamma flew by night over Cambridge and bombarded that seat of learning with Very lights.
From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Half a dozen Very lights went up in rapid succession: we were discovered!
From On the right of the British line by Nobbs, Gilbert
