Eventually, to avoid taxation the roof was removed and the shell left to rot.

Exactly 3,840 shells landed on the thing and left it almost entirely unaffected.

The sergeant replied he did not have any shells left.

Now it was gone, just a shell left.

The surviving 5-tonne-mortar shells had left the other a burned-out wreck-was full of corpses.

Hanging is an unpleasant death, and the shell left behind reflects it.

There were enough shells left, he knew that.

The shells leave a feathery vapor trail as they arc through the air.

"There was only a shell left," she said.

Only one shell left, I thought, checking the scattergun.