And say, that must mean one of the robbers was something of a birdman himself; because no greenhorn would ever think of making his getaway in an aeroplane.
Some day the Rolling R boys would be telling with pride how they used to know Johnny Jewel, the wonderful birdmanthat had his picture in all the papers and was getting thousands of dollars for exhibition flights.
Thinking these things, Johnny looked back at the unhappily plodding birdman and grinned.
Bleriot's flight over the English Channel was one of the most dramatic that ever has been made by an aviator, as he encountered perils that nobirdman ever before had faced.
The people marvelled at nerve so great And gasped or cheered as he tempted fate, More daring each day than the day before, Till the birdmanfell and arose no more.
Of course a birdman may, by warping his wings, or changing the elevation of his rudder, come out safely, but there is always a chance of danger or death.
One prominent birdman from the West was due to start the next day, and on the following two from the South were scheduled to leave.
They told him, however, that the "irate father" had taken the weeping maiden out of town and left the "truculent young birdman pining in captivity.
Thad started in to work at the engine as though this thing of being called off to save the life of a birdman was a mere nothing at all, just coming along in the course of his ordinary business.
Somehow the boys found themselves compelled to follow the flight of the birdman as he swooped down and crossed the river.
It will be remembered that Thad had taken pains to conceal this under the lining of his campaign hat, lest some Belgian eye read what the Taube birdman had written over his signature, and charge them with being German spies.
Still swinging around in a circle the birdman commenced hurling other menacing missiles.
The birdman touched his goggled cap, his assistant started the engines and in a minute the great bird was swinging into the sky.
The birdman was a smiling young giant with blond hair and fine blue eyes.
The birdman saluted and swung the taube into the clouds.
But, try my best, I won’t ever be a better birdman than Dave Dashaway!
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane or Daring Adventures Over the Great Lakes Showing how Dave continued his career as a birdman and had many adventures over the Great Lakes, and he likewise foiled the plans of some Canadian smugglers.
On one of the early days in the great war a Russian aviator, aloft in one of the primitive airplanes of that time, was engaged in locating the positions of the enemy when he chanced upon a German birdman engaged in a similar mission.
The latest bombing machines were equipped with sights which enabled thebirdman to drop these deadly objects with greater accuracy than had been possible earlier in the war.
He was sent crashing down to satisfy the vengeance in toll for the life of the birdman he had taken.
They are official documents, but when a birdman is honorably discharged he may take his log book with him.
For it is true, in a number of instances that the German aviators do drop within the allied lines news of any British, French or American birdman who is captured or killed inside the German lines.
The aeroplane was a great astonishment to him and the fact that the birdman could leave the bird and talk and walk filled him with awe.
The birdman promised to take me today and I will get him to take you instead.
I was on my way to pay you a visit, but I didn't intend to do it in just this way," and the birdman smiled grimly.
He found them in the idea of a photo telephone, and he and his father were just talking of this when interrupted by the accident to the birdman on the roof of the Swift home.
The birdman had fallen out, but had managed to cling to the chimney, so that he had not reached the ground, and there he clung, while the motor of his airship was banging away, and revolving the propeller blades dangerously close to his head.
He had laughingly made the remark to Mason that he might expect a birdman to visit him in his chosen god-forsaken country.
The birdman was flying at a dizzy height and when directly over them he went into a series of loops after which he banked the airplane sharply and continued along with them to the ranch.
The birdmanwas again several hundred feet up in the air.
Trent, recognizing in the Navy birdman a former classmate at Annapolis.
It was not, however, for purposes of advertisement that the California Birdman performed the "stunt" in question, but rather for love of Helen Hartland.
The grateful fisherman asked to be allowed to thank the Birdman who had rescued him, and one, Billiken, was sent for.
But the Birdman in a noble voice replied, "For what little I did I want no reward, but please do not embrace me again; the emotion I experience is more than I can bear.
But they got him beyond just as he was going over their trenches; our gun men had luckily just slipped a shell in and the corporal jumped and sighted and let Mr. Birdman have it just once, and, by jingo, it got him!
The enemy might have been suspicious of that, though they must have believed that the birdman offered too uncertain a mark on which to waste shells in the dark, and then the flier's report gave them an assurance of safety.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birdman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aeronaut; airman; flier; flyer; instructor; pilot; rainmaker
