"What's this here stuff they calls lyddite?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Dooley's Philosophy] Reference

Nearly every man, woman and child is lyddite-stained.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Shadow of Death] Reference

It was lyddite melody; the lyddite shells were singing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

The smell of the lyddite was nauseating, the uproar stupefying.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference

Opposition as much heavy lyddite, followed by shrapnel, was the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bullets & Billets] Reference

He was sick from the lyddite, and tired-tired to the depths of his soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

Karl got rid of a fourteen-pound sigh, which sounded like the bursting of a lyddite shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

Brandy had crimes committed in its name, and lyddite was a happy and appropriate appellation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Until the stark outline of the ridge was blurred and indefinite in the dust and lyddite fumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

The rocks around their howitzer were torn by lyddite, and the ground strewn with shrapnel bullets.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Steyn and De Wet] Reference

One of our lyddite shells went over a hill into their camp, killed fourteen men and wounded thirty.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

Some of these columns of water were of a poisonous yellow-green tinge … these would be lyddite shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

No further attention was paid to these tales, for lyddite was a terrible thing -- that could move kopjes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

It was the dust and the sun and the lyddite fumes which had irritated his own eyes, he told himself angrily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

Poisoned by the lyddite fumes, he fought his nausea and when he had controlled it he looked out along the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

A B and D are fragments of a large forged steel howitzer shell exploded by lyddite, such as were cast by our guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

Sunday afternoon our guns, which had been silent for a fortnight, again opened fire and shelled the Boers with lyddite.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa] Reference

He stopped for the words came slowly, slurred a little from a brain dulled by the lyddite and the hammering of big guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

The evil blossoms of greenish-yellow lyddite fumes bloomed quickly in the sunlight, then drifted oily thick on the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sound of Thunder]

The guns were giving the Boers lyddite and shrapnel, and the fighting line were cheering as kopje after kopje was taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service] Reference

It did not need a protest from General Joubert against the use of lyddite to confirm our impressions of what it could do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

For at the base of the mountain are natural forts and grottoes, against which lyddite shells would spend their force in vain.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Shadow of Death] Reference

Yet when it is exploded by the proper method, lyddite, dynamite, and all the other ites, are as a gentle zephyr in comparison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference

Here, just before sunset, the gallant Captain Rautenbagh was blown to pieces by a lyddite shell, which exploded in front of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Shadow of Death] Reference

I interviewed the sailors on the accomplishments of the new-comer, and on the effects especially of lyddite, about which we hear so much.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Rimington] Reference

Reorganization gives the demagogue his chance; and often his literary lyddite strikes close.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference

The trawler was sinking, but not quite fast enough, so we finished her off with a couple of lyddite shell on the waterline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference