The Jackal said to the Fox: "Swear to me that the Wagtail owes me a pound of butter.
Their ancient Indian sages and philosophers compiled a treatise for the education of princes which was supposed to contain a system of good counsel for right training in all the chief affairs of life.
On the way the Fox told them all sorts of delightful things, and cheered them on most heartily.
If I am too heavy only say so and I will go at once and rest upon the poplar which grows hard by the edge of the stream.
A failure at forty, with the publication of his first fables in verse he became famous, and for many years he was the most popular writer in Russia.
Around the monument (says his biographer) a number of children are always at play, and the poet seems to smile benignly on them from his bronze easy chair.
The cow required tending, so a cowboy was employed.
The Old Woman and Her Maids A certain Old Woman had several Maids, whom she used to call to their work every morning at the crowing of the Cock.
The Deer would have been caught at once if he had not jumped quickly out of the brook.
He instructs while he sports, persuades men to virtue by means of beasts, and exalts trifling subjects to the sublime.
Very well, it that is the case, I will assist you," said the Mouse-deer.
The Hare and the Tortoise The Hare, one day, laughing at the Tortoise for his slowness and general unwieldiness, was challenged by the latter to run a race.
When the other animals heard of his distress, they came, one by one, to look at him and ask him how he felt.
Never was sent out to do an aeroplane story when I was on the Chronicle.
Harrah's secretary had written Bruce in response to his last appeal that Harrah had been badly hurt in an aeroplane accident in France and that it would not be possible to communicate with him for months perhaps.
Down below the crowd was shouting and cheering, for some of them had never seen an aeroplane before.
The fair opens to-morrow, and there’s going to be an aeroplane flight.
Instantly the aeroplane shot downward, and then, checking it, the pilot sent it forward.
Pilot and observer set off in an aeroplane upon a single-handed reconnaissance towards the enemy's lines in Sinai.
There seemed to be always a Boche aeroplane hovering over the ruins.
The aeroplane alighted on the desert waste, and the two occupants worked feverishly to adjust the faulty mechanism.
By 1909 the aeroplane was available for human locomotion.
First the Zeppelin and then the bombing aeroplane carried war over and past the front to an ever-increasing area of civilian activities beyond.
The highest recorded flight of anaeroplane is little more than four miles.
Then with incredible agility he ran to the aeroplane and scrambled into the pilot's seat.
He had flown in an aeroplane once for the sake of a new thrill, but subsequently determined that it would be a pity further to risk two thousand a year.
In obedience to the order Lionel gave the propeller a swing, the engine started, and in a few seconds the aeroplane began to run swiftly over the ground.
Boxing Day was also observed as a holiday and passed without incident except for a visit from a hostile aeroplane which passed over the camp travelling eastwards at a considerable height.
About this time, the Battalion witnessed an enemy aeroplane pass over our positions--dropping several bombs and arrows.
I'll at once get busy among the aeroplane makers and tire people, and as soon as I have anything worth while I'll let you and the other gentlemen know.
We'll ask him where he works, and whether his firm sold any tires to an aeroplane owner lately.
The aeroplane was now within a hundred feet of the ground.
You forget that as an aeroplane we're as good as ever," responded Ned.
Yes, some fellows that had an aeroplane out there sent for some extra ones just before the exhibition opened.
Maybe that's his aeroplane that Andy Rush was telling us about," suggested Bob.
There were two figures in it, as our friends could observe, and they were guiding the aeroplane about in easy circles and figures of eight.
He ought to learn how to run an aeroplane in the kindergarten class before he comes out with the high school boys.
The Silver Star," read Bob, as he saw the name of the aeroplanepainted on one of the side planes, and on the vertical rudder.
Brown and Black, talking of the aeroplane Silver Star, and planning what they would do when they took their own motorship Comet to the coming aviation meet, Jerry and his chums were soon speeding back toward Cresville in their auto.
There was a splintering sound, a breaking of metal, and the bicycle wheels of the aeroplane collapsed under the sudden shock.
They sailed up to a dizzy height, came down in spirals, volplaned to earth as an aeroplane with the gas entirely out of the bag, floated lazily in the air as a balloon, and went after a height record.
Hence, when he saw lying here and there deformed and disfigured fragments of the exquisitely grained white spruce, which during the war, he had with such care selected for his aeroplane parts, his very heart rose in indignant wrath.
An aeroplane was flying out of the cloud into the sunshine, and the trumpets of the French cavalry rang out triumphantly.
Note the aeroplane and the balloon directing the fire of the monitors' guns.
An aeroplane soared high over the position towards the German lines.
The aeroplane was descending on the far side of the farm, near a clump of trees.
The battalion had only just been dismissed when the whirr of an aeroplane was heard, and a few seconds later a Taube flew over the place.
Behind the German lines the aeroplane was whirling in precipitous descent from an immense height.
He made signs that he was thirsty, and I left him there at the aeroplane while I returned here to fetch him some little refreshment.
Seizing his rifle, he stood watching the aeroplane as it circled above them, gradually coming lower.
The aeroplane finally vanished, and the men returned to their cards, turning up the lamps again.
While the Englishmen were taking stock of all this, they heard the drone of an aeroplane approaching.
They rushed across the fields, and were just in time to see a man leap from the aeroplane and dive into the copse.
And in the midst of the broken sounds came the continuous hum of an aeroplane somewhere in the neighbourhood.
Sufficient to say that the Comet was a combined aeroplaneand dirigible balloon.
This feature could be used when the craft was an aeroplane or dirigible.
For the rest it is a peaceful life, and if you escape the attentions of all these death-dealing devices, mine, aeroplane and submarine, you may arrive home safe enough.
The aeroplane hovered high above and dropped a light, and a minute later the Blue Marines heard a shrill whistle, that grew and changed to a whoop, and ended with the same old crash in the same old field.
The German aeroplaneappeared as usual one morning just after the section had completed breakfast.
On this morning at the usual hour the aeroplane appeared, and the gunners, who were waiting in handy proximity to the cars, jumped to their stations.
Convinced probably by this and the appearance of the numerous shell-pits scattered round the gun position, the aeroplane swooped lower to verify its observations.
The aeroplane dropped a light, turned, and circled round to the left.
Next morning the aeroplane appeared again, and the Blue Marines allowed it this time to approach unattacked.
The combined aeroplane and dirigible balloon, a most wonderful traveler of the air, swung around, and then, with the deflection rudders slanted downward, came on with a rush.
In spite of its great size the aeroplane was easily wheeled along by Tom and Mr. Sharp, for the gas in the container made it so buoyant that it barely touched the earth.
Well, let it be a lesson to you," said Chet with mock gravity, "never to let your ambitions soar to aeroplane inventing.
It's an aeroplane all right," said Ferd, with conviction.
We'll be back for the pieces of the aeroplane later.
An aeroplane passed above her with its angry whirr returning from Blankenberghe to Nieuport, and she turned on her back and floated, looking up at it and waving her small gleaming hand.
Perhaps I dozed, for suddenly I thought I was in Westende the day that the aeroplane passed above me as I swam far out in the sea.
The aeroplanelooks like a bird but it is a heavy and elaborate piece of machinery.
He might as well be consulted on the advisability of making the channel tunnel or on the safest type of aeroplane or on any other subject involving the technical training of the engineer.
The X-ray, wireless telegraphy or the aeroplane has become the latest "marvel of science," only to develop in a very brief period into a commonplace of existence.
A sailor may be saved from shipwreck, a soldier has a fighting chance on the ground, but when an aeroplane goes too far wrong, just save the pieces, that's all.
Then with a roguish glance at his chum, he said: "The only medal I am hankering after is the one Billy and I are expecting for making the first aeroplane flight across the Atlantic.
Condemned of mixing in the battle of wits between the grim Roque and his strongest wily rival from over the sea, and it were better that the young aviators had tumbled from their aeroplaneduring the last high flight.
When this journey ended it was in territory remote from that of any former experience of the Aeroplane Scouts--a new battle landscape.
The aeroplane took the downshoot and skated to a standstill on the slippery soil.
To follow them beyond this fixed destination is to turn the leaves of the next record, under the title of "Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Russia; or, Lost on the Frozen Steppes.
The aviators well knew that an explosion close to an aeroplane is often sufficient, through the force of the air concussion alone, to bring it down, and they knew they could not chance a close shot from the long-range guns in the fort.
Through this long exposure to the danger of attracting unwelcome attention, the boys were momentarily expecting some aeroplane demonstration from the Russian military camps showing to the east.
This aeroplane was intended to convoy us to our destination.
Gentlemen:-- I am afraid my aeroplane French will not be understood by our good friends present.
As we stopped at the entrance of Nancy, we saw an aeroplane flying over the town.
The aeroplane landing wheels, axle and suspensions are abandoned.
A considerable controversy raged in the press and elsewhere a few months before the cessation of hostilities on the subject of equipping the aeroplane with parachutes as a life-saving device.
While the airship was flying, the pilot of the aeroplane was in his position with his engine just ticking over.
Furious, which had been adapted as an aeroplane carrier.
From the war two new methods of transportation have emerged--the aeroplane and the airship.
About this period the station at Farnborough was abandoned by the Naval Airship Service to make room for the expansion of the militaryaeroplane squadrons.
To test the possibility of this innovation, a small aeroplane was attached to one of our rigid airships beneath the keel.
Maurice Farman aeroplane body, and as it appeared to be suitable for the purpose, a certain number of these was also ordered.
At the same time the men in the ranks could distinctly hear the whirr and the hum of aeroplane motors above them.
A few minutes ago I heard a German aeroplane signalling by wireless to a German battery and directing its fire.
For Alphonse Benois, an aeroplane that flies on a string.
We hurried back to the camp at Behagnies and composed fresh orders, while Jumbo re-marked his maps and reshuffled his aeroplane photographs.
The aeroplane was flying so recklessly low--it was a clear night with a moon--that for once our machine-gunners brought her down in a field about a mile beyond the bridge.
They were noticed by an enemy aeroplane flying low, and shelled heavily in consequence.
The shooting seemed too accurate to be unintentional, and we cursed the aeroplane that was circling overhead.
It is chosen after the most painstaking examination of aeroplane photographs and the daily reconnaissance of the enemy country.
We were discussing its fate when a large German aeroplane swooped down and drove us to take cover.
And, if we had been Romans, we should have cried out in horror, for, during the parade, an enemy aeroplane brought down in flames one of our observation balloons.
The measured flap of the tracks grows louder, and, if you did not know, you would think an aeroplane was droning overhead.
No enemy aeroplane came over, but a few shells, dropping just beyond the copse on a suspected battery position, disturbed our sleep.
By day the occasional German aeroplane could see little, for there was little to see.
One section even found their way along the remains of a track so obliterated by shell-fire that it scarcely could be traced on the aeroplane photographs, and "bolted" the enemy from a number of strong points.
Soon aeroplane reports were being wired through from the army.
Finally a large aeroplane bombed along the main road, dropping one group just short of the camp, and another group, intended presumably for the bridge, between the bridge and the camp.
I do not think that there is any aeroplane more consistently noisy than a "Spad.
We had passed the guns when the enemy began to shell the crowded valley with heavy stuff, directed by an aeroplane that kept steady and unwinking watch on our doings.
