Their clothing, hands and faces were stained yellow from the lyddite fumes.
Major Elmslie threw altogether some 410 lyddite shells into Omdurman.
The explosion blackened our faces with lyddite and half-blinded us.
Its red glarePg 220 is followed by flame that does not come from lyddite.
The smell of the lyddite was nauseating, the uproar stupefying.
The gun uses shrapnel as well, but relies for its main effects on lyddite.
Back to the British trenches also wafted the sickly fumes of lyddite and cresolite.
Here a corner of one of the massive entrance pillars had been sharply severed off by a British lyddite shell.
A few of Buller's lyddite shells were bursting near him, and one shell was seen to strike his magazine and explode it.
lyddite shells having found the range, about 3000 yards, opened fire upon Omdurman.
