Heat can cause a live shell to explode, but campfires are prohibited in the park.

Hunters use the park, too, however, and a bullet striking a live shell could detonate it.

"We don't think it's still a live shell," Mr. Desmond said.

While no arrests were made, the police said, eight spent 9-millimeter shells and one live shell were found near the school.

Rostislav accidentally fired a live shell into the Turkish defenses.

I don't want to wait for night, and I need the guns to fire live shells, not harmless ones.

Tom picked up his automatic, pulled out the magazine and threw it into the brush, and he ejected the live shell from the chamber.

Hackness did not stop until Þór had fired two blanks and one live shell off its bow.

There was also the matter of having used the last live shell, but that was knowledge Eddie could do without, at least tonight.

Roland told Eddie in a voice too low for Delta to hear that he thought they were out of live shells.