The sky clear for once and, lit by sun about to sink over Ballon d'Alsace, was studded with white shrapnel puffs--while the German puffs were flaked into black clouds.
And at other times we made excursions to the beauty spots of that beautiful part of France, to the Ballon d'Alsace, the Saut du Doubs.
Their culminating points in French territory, the Ballon d'Alsace and the Hohneck in the southern portion of the chain, reach 4100 ft.
Belfort itself, connect the fortress with the right of the defensive line of the Moselle (Fort Ballon d'Alsace).
Ballon d'Alsace, the northern termination and the culminating point of the department; to 3773 ft.
Ballon Il lança un ballon d’essai avant de produire son grand ouvrage = He sent out a feeler before publishing his great work.
From Belfort toBallon d'Alsace there is a rise of some four thousand feet.
Ballon d'essai=--A balloon sent up to ascertain the direction of the wind; any test of public feeling.
They are those Germans whose countries I had seen a long way off, from the Ballon d'Alsace, and whose language and traditions I now first touched in the town that stood before me.
I was now arrived at the head of this lovely vale, at the sources of the river Moselle and the base of the great mountain the Ballon d'Alsace, which closes it in like a wall at the end of a lane.
Not that this map is of the Ballon d'Alsace in particular, but only of the type of hill I mean.
I was standing on the summit of that knot of hills which rise up from every side to form the Ballon d'Alsace, and make an abrupt ending to the Vosges.
And this map is also useful to show what route I followed for my first three days past Epinal and Remiremont up to the source of the river, and up over the great hill, the Ballon d'Alsace.
For the Ballon d'Alsace is the knot of Europe, and from that gathering up and ending of the Vosges you look down upon three divisions of men.
Envelopes posted in Paris during the siege of 1870 bearing the words "Par Ballon Monté" are much prized by collectors.
With this second heat brought nearer the retort, the ballon grows warm, and is filled with white vapours, which have the smell of fetid oil.
You must now stop all the registers, and shut all the doors of the furnace, in order to smother the fire; and then close up the little hole in the ballon with fat lute or bees-wax.
In about three hours from the first appearance of this salt, the ballon is again filled with new vapours, which smell like Sal Ammoniac thrown upon burning coals.
Keep up the same degree of fire, till upon opening the little hole in the ballon you perceive that the vapours, which instantly fill the receiver, have the suffocating smell of volatile Spirit of Sulphur[12].
Soon after you observe this sign, there will issue out through the little hole of the ballon a stream of blueish light, which continues of a greater or shorter extent to the end of the operation.
The water in the ballon, being heated by the vicinity of the furnace, exhales vapours which dissolve this sprigged salt, and the ballon clears up in half an hour after it has ceased rising.
Fit on to the retort a large glass ballon two thirds full of water, and lute them together, as in distilling the Smoking Spirit of Nitre.
This must be done with great expedition: after which pour into the ballontwo or three quarts of cold water, to accelerate the precipitation of the Phosphorus that swims at top.
But they leave about four inches on the upper part of the ballon uncovered, with a view to promote the sublimation, as they also do six inches of the inferior part, that the heat may the better act on the matters to be sublimed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ballon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
