In addition to high explosive he now began to send over for the first time "lachrymatory" gas shells, having a sweet smell and doing little harm except to make our eyes water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

Free use was made of lachrymatory shell, our first taste of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery] Reference

Such a lachrymatory farewell from someone who will certainly not be missed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frist Passes on the ’08 Season - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Opening my door, I encountered the not unpleasant smell of lachrymatory gas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

I feel the lachrymatory reflex begin and a counter-reflex pops in, that choked up feeling that says, No, not now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

The goggles are intended for use after lachrymatory bombardments only, in cases where the irritant gas persists in the neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Instructors Manual] Reference

The protection afforded by these means is just as complete against lachrymatory gases as it is against cloud gas and poisonous shell gases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Instructors Manual] Reference

With lachrymatory gases the times after which shelters can be used without discomfort may be considerably longer than those mentioned above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Instructors Manual] Reference

Some are merely lachrymatory or "tear" shells; the gas affecting the eyes in such a manner as to produce constant "weeping" and consequent inability to see clearly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emma Gees] Reference

The entire lab stank from chemicals in unvented storage cabinets, and became lachrymatory when reactions using excess ethyl bromoacetate had to be worked up outside the hood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography] Reference

"If it please Heaven, not the lachrymatory from Clochnaben!" interjected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference

` ` If it please Heaven, not the lachrymatory from Clochnaben! '' interjected Oldbuck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

"She takes the lachrymatory for a golden vase, which your excellency is presenting to her as a present.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of the Great Elector] Reference

Then came the lachrymatory or "tear-compelling" gases, calculated to produce temporary or permanent blindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War] Reference

This vapour drifted down into the trenches and had a decided lachrymatory effect on those with whom it came into contact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula] Reference

The lachrymatory shell makes your eyes smart, and the Germans apparently considered this a great auxiliary to high explosives and shrapnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Second Year of the War] Reference

Our gas is more deadly, our lachrymatory shells are more lachrymose an 'our liquid fire's quite tophole -- won't go out till it burns out -- rather not!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain at War] Reference

Again, walking into gas "pockets" up a trench one has been stopped as by a fierce blow across the eyes, the lachrymatory effect was so piercing and sudden.    From Wordnik.com.  [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference

The French Physiological Classification; -- Asphyxiating Substances; -- Toxic Substances; -- Chemicals or poison gases were either asphyxiating, toxic, lachrymatory, vesicant, or sternutatory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...] Reference

As they moved in, many smelt for the first time the curious fragrant odour of lachrymatory gas, which seemed to come from the flowers of some wayside garden until the pricking and watering at the eyes proved otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)] Reference

Like to try a lachrymatory? "he enquired, reaching up to a certain dingy box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain at War] Reference

A cloud of lachrymatory gas, which made me weep copious tears for nearly half an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q.6.a and Other places Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918] Reference

It is used, I am informed, by the Germans in their lachrymatory and asphyxiating bombs. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure-Train] Reference

“My dog, sir, has unfortunately thrown down” — “If it please Heaven, not the lachrymatory from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

Tear or lachrymatory shells; 359.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Instructors Manual] Reference

"It is a lachrymatory, your excellency.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth of the Great Elector] Reference

Tear shells or "lachrymatory shells.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front] Reference