lyddite-stained

Updated: July 2, 2026

The women are adding their sobs to the plaintive exhortations of the wounded. All the time the shelling never abates. The arena of the defenders is veneered. Nearly every man, woman and child is lyddite-stained. The muddy stream is yellow. The night was an awful one.

P. H. (Pieter Hendrick) Kritzinger - In the Shadow of Death