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• The other was to go on, to the next drink or the bed or the grass outside, where the party-noises ebbed and flowed like shell-shocks and the Southern Cross burnt crookedly above.
• "[...]Think of me / With all these psychic shell shocks — first the war, / Its great emotions, then this Elenor."
• But while malls kllled much of downtown America, they only partially injured New York City. The density of this city guaranteed a less dramatic impact than the shell shocks that crippled so many other cities.
• I passed through the shell-shock wards and a yard where the "shell-shocks" sat about, dumb, or making queer, foolish noises, or staring with a look of animal fear in their eyes.
• Of the 79 officer casualties 10 were "shell-shocks", or about 12 per cent, of the whole. Of the 10 shell-shocks 4 were sent to C.C.S. and 6 to Corps Rest Station.
• Most nurses found the helplessness of "the shell shocks" painful and "pitiful."
• It was General du Pont's 'forty-five' which bellowed and thundered and echoed through Fifth avenue, scaring horses and shell shocking pedestrians.
• The crack of the home run that the batsman cherishes shell-shocks the nerves of the pitcher who threw it.
• Silently Melissa listened to her mother as she softly convincingly spoke the raw naked truth the best way she knew how without shell shocking the girl.
• Barry sounded lighter, his spirits lifting slightly from the shell shocking humiliation and helplessness he'd been feeling.