time-shrapnel

Updated: May 7, 2025

Those six guns began throwing time-shrapnel with beautiful precision just where Boers were thickest. Not a shell seemed to be misplaced, so far as one could judge, and successive bursts and showers of shrapnel seemed to wither the immense thickets near Intombi's crest.

Henry H. S. Pearse - Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith