There was a ringing bang, and the shell, small but charged with deadly Lyddite, spun away on its errand.
"On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles"
Thomas Charles Bridges
A hundred yards distant, on our right, the navy guns were firing Lyddite that burst with a thick yellow smoke; on the other side Colt automatics were put-put-put-ing a stream of bullets; the field-guns and the howitzers were playing from a hill half a mile behind us, and scattered among the rocks about us, and for two miles on either hand, the infantry in reserve were firing off ammunition at any part of the three hills they happened to dislike!
"Notes of a War Correspondent"
Richard Harding Davis
They have had cast at them the shafts of British vituperation and the Lyddite of American venom.
"With the Boer Forces"
Howard C. Hillegas