lamp shell

Yet five years later, the news operation has vanished and TRN is now a shell of its former self.

He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.

Off flew the shell, seven miles it flew; over the Turkish Army from one sea into another.

He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"

Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!

Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.