stuffy-smelling

Updated: July 5, 2026

Three or four times the crash and the glare came together, and a big cloud of stuffy-smelling white smoke drifted low overhead, and bits of mud and earth cascaded down upon us from the sky above; and just for two minutes the sheaf of four shells from some particular field battery, which sent them passing as regularly as a clock about five times a minute overhead, seemed to lower and burst just above us; and one or two odd high-explosive bursts 4.2, I should say crept in close upon us from the rear, while the parapet gave several ponderous jumps towards us from the other direction.

C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean - Letters from France