First of all, he opened and shelled the oysters, and put them over the fire in a huge saucepan.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
I told the doctor that we had no cow brute and could not give one; that we had but little sugar and tobacco, and could spare none; that if they wanted corn to plant, we would give them a sack of shelled corn, and no more.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Round about the salient a network of railways had been built with great speed under the very eyes of the enemy, and though he had shelled our tracks and engines he could never stop the work of those engineers who laboured with fine courage and industry so that the guns might not lack for shells nor the men for supplies on the day of attack.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs