So he saw the first shells bursting in the trees.

Tom wouldn't have wanted to work in one of those places with shells bursting all around.

The shells burst all around, throwing deadly fragments every which way.

Three or four times shells burst about the beach, and then that ceased.

The mortar shells tore over us and burst out of sight.

Some of his bodyguards, though, remained above ground and upright when shells burst not far away.

Tankers could see shells bursting barely one hundred yards in front of them.

Shells were bursting in the trenches, the forts, and the city.

At last, shells burst high overhead and he began snapping his shutter.

Sean focused his glasses on the ridge in time to see the first shells burst along the crest.