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Example sentences for "aerostat"

Lexicographically close words:
aeroplane; aeroplanes; aeroscope; aerosolized; aerospace; aerostatic; aerostation; aery; aestate; aesthete
  1. So they had to march out with the others; and of what went on inside, or whether the aerostat was likely ever to struggle out of its fearful position, they in the meanwhile knew nothing.

  2. He could see that the position of the aerostat was critical, and that they were all in terrible danger.

  3. And so it came to pass that when, in due time, the wondrous aerostat Ivenia set out upon her return to Earth, she brought back with her a larger load of treasure even than she had carried to Mars.

  4. All that was made known was that the aerostat had now resumed her voyage, and that, as it happened, no harm had been done.

  5. But within the aerostat artificial nights, so to speak, were produced by drawing huge screens across the semi-transparent outer casing.

  6. Compared with the great aerostat in which they had made their memorable voyage, she was like a tiny, graceful yacht beside one of our modern warships; yet she was large and roomy enough to accommodate a numerous party.

  7. Distinct from, and supplementing, the records obtained by free balloons, manned or unmanned, are those to be gathered from an aerostat moored to earth.

  8. Having now reached the highest point to which our aerostat will mount so long as its weight continues unchanged, we surrender ourselves to the guidance of the current in which we are involved.

  9. Herein the aeroplane has the advantage over the aerostat even when the aerostat is furnished with the means of locomotion.

  10. They persuade themselves that they can be masters of an aerostat as they can be masters of a ship on the surface of the sea.

  11. In a few moments the aerostat had attained a height of sixteen thousand feet.

  12. The aerostat "Go-Ahead," built by the Weldon Institute, was to take possession of her natural element.

  13. Since eleven o'clock the enormous aerostat had been floating a few feet from the ground ready to rise in mid-air.

  14. At this moment the aerostat rose a few hundred yards.

  15. The aerostat maneuvered without encountering any resistance, seeming very small owing to the distance, much as if she were being looked at through the wrong end of a telescope.

  16. The chance of encountering an aerostat gliding through the air was too remote to be regarded.

  17. With regards to the means employed to give the aerostat its motion a great deal of progress had been made.

  18. If the aerostat finds support in the air it belongs to the medium in which it moves; under such conditions, how can its mass, which offers so much resistance to the currents of the atmosphere, make its way against the wind?

  19. The clouds are gathering around us in every direction, and frightful detonations reverberating from the cavity of the aerostat are multiplying around us.

  20. The twelve men who were holding the aerostat by twelve cords fastened to the equatorial circle, let them slip between their fingers; the car rose a few feet above the ground.

  21. The flame increased, suddenly disappeared, and re-appeared at the top of the aerostat under the form of an immense jet of burning gas.

  22. They have not seen us so far, for if they had they would certainly have sent an aerostat aloft to reconnoitre, and, of course, I must have destroyed it.

  23. Even from that elevation, those on board the Ithuriel were able with the aid of their field-glasses to see with perfect ease the commotion which the appearance of the air-ship with the captured aerostat had produced in the Russian camp.

  24. An hour had been allowed for the interview and for the Tsar to give his decision, and half an hour for the aerostat to return and meet the air-ship.

  25. Ten minutes later the aerostat was released from her moorings and rose swiftly and vertically into the air.

  26. In less than half an hour they saw the aerostat touch the earth near to a large building, above which floated the imperial standard of Russia.

  27. There isn't as much of that aerostat left as would make a pocket-handkerchief or a walking-stick.

  28. With this intent, sufficient time was allowed for the work to be properly done; and by October 10th the aerostat was completed, in a garden in the Faubourg St.-Antoine.

  29. The aerostat barely landed upon the top of the temple, before Cooper Edgecombe, with a wild scream of ecstatic joy, caught his wife in his arms and hurried her into the car, while Waldo and uncle Phaeton aided Bruno.

  30. Too deeply absorbed in his own thoughts to notice the little cries and ejaculations which came from the brothers, he caused the aerostat to rise higher, slowly sweeping that extended field with his glasses.

  31. You will have to clear up, lads, for I must make such few repairs as are necessary to restore the aerostat to a state of efficiency.


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    Other words:
    airship; balloon; blimp; ship