Though I have, in the abstract, no desire for shellfire, even when very mild, I could not, in a sense, help being glad that I was obliged to get so excellent a view of what a shell bursting in the air looks like at fairly close quarters.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
The whole section affected by the mines was subjected to a most intense shellfire, and following up this death-dealing storm came the troops of General Haig, under Sir Herbert Plumer, who finished the work of the great mines and big guns with a brilliant charge of men, who used rifle and bayonet most effectively.
"Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights"
Kelly Miller
It began at 6 o'clock in the, morning with heavy shellfire.
"America's War for Humanity"
Thomas Herbert Russell