Crossword-Solution: STARSHELLS
We have 2 clues for the answer “STARSHELLS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Illuminating explosives. | 1 answer |
| Projectiles illuminating enemy positions | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
TOINEOM
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with STARSHELLS (4)
Anyway, the wind wasn’t right, because the thing I saw was cutting into the wind at a forty-five-degree angle.” Other witnesses told me that investigators had suggested birds, meteors, reflections on clouds, shooting stars, and starshells as probable explanations of what they had seen.
With the sound of big guns the whole front was lighted up here and there with flares and starshells, many being sent up from shell holes concealed from all but their own side.
Though where his bones are, no man knows, not one!" _John Helston_ THE FALLEN SUBALTERN The starshells float above, the bayonets glisten; We bear our fallen friend without a sound; Below the waiting legions lie and listen To us, who march upon their burial-ground.
Sometimes as they marched they would see the starshells, going up and bursting like rockets, and coming down With a wavering slow settling motion, as white and bright as burning magnesium wire, shedding a kind of dust of light upon the trench and making the blackness intense when they went out.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1964–1990).