At length his wife died; he wept like a true and faithful husband as he was, and thenceforth was both mother and father to his babes.
There are three hundred people in the rooms of the Denslow Palace; these people are the 'aristocracy.
I persuaded Jo to take a little drive, and once in the carriage the air reanimated her; she rested against me and talked more than I had known her for weeks.
Thus wrecked and wasted, her opportunity past, her career a disappointment, she leaves us only the passing glimpse of what she was, and the hazy possibility of what she might have been.
But no such prize as the Kinloch property had ever before come into his hands.
What sings the cook at the galley-fire in doleful unison with the bubble of his coppers?
The toil and privations of frontier life soon wrought their natural effects upon Mrs. Davenport's delicate constitution.
You use me badly,--I tell you, Dalton, this Rosecouleur is a devil.
I observed their movements,--Lethal and Adonaïs using my face as a mirror of what was passing beyond the curtain.
The noise was terrific, the bombers singing their particular songs and being howled down by the Lewis Gunners with their own pet ditties, and vice versa.
He came across a party of bombers of the Post Office Rifles who were short of bayonet men.
The 6th suffered heavy casualties and two sections of bombers and two Lewis Gun teams were sent from the Civil Service to assist them.
The 25th of May was indeed a bad day for the Battalion for, in addition to Lieutenant Chalmers and the bombers before mentioned, many of the stalwarts were killed or wounded on that day.
On the night of the 25th of May, eight bombers were sent to the assistance of the Post Office Rifles in an attempt to clear a trench.
The bombers were naturally hit harder than other sections in this sad business, and another who could ill be spared was Private H.
We bombers had not been in our dug-out an hour before one earth wall collapsed and buried our equipment and belongings.
After a stubborn fight the position was captured, but of the eight bombers only four returned alive, and two of these were wounded.
In a moment the Hun bomberswould be in on them, and they would break.
If they give way and let the Hun bombers in, it will let down the whole line.
The platoons that had originally formed the rear waves were now fast coming up, bombs and bombers were called for, and an immediate counter-attack organised.
Bayonet fighting was excelled in, and attacks by bombers and bayonetmen were practiced with frequency in trenches especially prepared for the purpose.
The bombers dashed forward, every available man followed, and within fifteen minutes of its loss, the entire Redoubt was recaptured and its forward trenches rapidly consolidated.
At a critical moment he led forward a party of bombers under heavy fire and controlled them with great skill until wounded.
There's a squadron of fast attack bombers due here in half an hour.
If the bombers try diving at us, our bullets might take effect.
We've got anti-aircraft guns, mounted fore and aft, that can blow half a dozen fast bombers clean out of the ozone.
In any case, it would double our chances of beating off enemybombers until our own squadron shows up.
But all Private Smith's efforts to supply thebombers were unavailing.
At the same time big guns on the high ground to the north-east and south-west bombarded our lines, trench mortars joined in, and bombers stormed our trenches with grenades.
Private Rivers was another of the bombers who won the highest award of valour during the first day of the great battle at Neuve Chapelle.
Just before six, Canadian sappers exploded a mine on their front, and several of their own bombers were killed or wounded by the force of the explosion.
On the 17th Lieutenant Hutchison led a party of bombers along a trench, partly held by us and partly by the Germans.
At once he became a mark for the enemy's bombers and sharpshooters.
At the same time, Mangrum’s dive bombers damaged three enemy destroyer-transports attempting to reach Guadalcanal.
Japanese bombers did penetrate the American fighter screen on 8 August.
An hour later, Bauer landed again, this time with four enemybombers to his credit.
The ships were pounded by enemy bombers and three transports were hit, but the men landed.
With daylight came the Cactus bombers and fighters; they found the crippled Hiei and pounded it mercilessly.
Several flights of Japanese bombers arrived over Henderson Field, relatively unscathed by the defending fighters, and began dropping their bombs.
Two days after the Ryujo raid, enemy bombers inflicted heavy damage on the airfield, setting aviation fuel ablaze and incinerating parked aircraft.
Sometimes the raids came during the day, but the 3d Defense Battalion’s 90mm antiaircraft guns forced the bombers to fly too high for effective bombing.
At first glance most of the bombers seemed to be intact.
Behind her now lay the Amboina docks and naval station, the target of bombers that were still on the way.
The eleven remaining bombers had laid their eggs with perfect accuracy on the docks and ships, and flown on.
Fragmentation bombs had riddled the bombers with shrapnel holes, torn off wings, ripped the thin-skinned fuselages.
Three of the bombers peeled off and circled down in wide, slow spirals.
Rosy O’Grady made three more runs before the first wave of Australian Havoc bombers arrived beneath her.
Your three squadrons of Martin bombers are already loaded on an aircraft carrier which you will board tonight.
Half an hour later three large formations of Australian attack bombers and B-25’s swept over, headed for the Jap base.
Those Martin bombers are sweet little ships, but they handle differently from a Boeing.
Skimming the sea at mast-height, the twin-engined attack bombers strafed the Jap decks with a terrible hail of bullets.
Taking off, flying and landing these medium bombers presented problems quite different from those he had met at Randolph Field.
He and Fred had found two Mitsubishi bombers with engines apparently unhurt and wings not too badly damaged, though the tail assemblies, fuselages and undercarriages were in sad shape.
How, for instance, could four squadrons of medium bombers effect such a complete destruction as the general had described?
As Barry and his friends moved wearily toward the hospital tent, a squadron of Mitchell bombers passed over, heading out to sea.
The planes you will fly are B-26 bombers that have been altered to carry twice their normal bomb load, and about one fourth of their regular supply of fuel.
They were everywhere, stabbing and diving, slashing at thebombers and ganging up on the fighters.
At twenty-five thousand feet the big bombers left broad vapor trails behind them.
The bombers roared on toward Germany, keeping tight formation so as to be able to lay out a deadly cross fire from their fifty-caliber guns.
It blossomed in the sky over the bombers and in the middle of Red Flight.
Each squadron was composed of a first flight of three bombers and a second flight of three bombers.
Long-range P-51's and swift Mosquito bombers went out.
Stan had been so busy watching the bombers he had not checked his own part of the sky.
A lot of people think we just go along with thebombers to catch a bit of fresh air and to keep from going stale.
Do you know how many fighters and bombers your force has?
Day broke and they could see the bombers below them.
The bombers were dropping their missiles with unceasing regularity, and the red death only spread the faster.
The first shot from the bombershad been well sent and accomplished all that was expected of it.
The Hun dived and squirmed, in the hopes of throwing off such a persistent pursuer, but Tom kept after him as if grimly determined to bring one of the night-bombers down, even if he had to follow the other to his own line.
Later on, as occasion arose, this formation would be changed, the battleplanes surrounding the heavier bombers in order to protect them from any hostile attack.
Of course the bombers were also fitted to ward off attack, each being armed with two machine-guns, one forward, and the other aft where the man who handled the bombs could manipulate it.
While the ten battleplanes, each piloted by a Yankee ace with a splendid record, engaged the flotilla of enemy aircraft, the bombers must be at their more humble but equally important business.
Lookouts sounded the alarms as they spotted the twin-engined, twin-tailed bombers a few hundred yards off the atoll’s south shore, emerging from a dense bank of clouds.
Rumor continues to fly about relief, but the dive bombers [are] also present.
While the atoll’s defenders prepared for war, Japanese bombers droned toward them.
Once the bombers had gone, the work of repairs and improving planes and positions resumed.
After about 15 minutes, dive bombers directed bombs and strafing toward the position, the battery’s firing having called attention to its existence.
Battery D’s gunners, meanwhile, claimed hits on two bombers (one of which was seen to explode later).
As the bombers departed, Gunner Hamas called his men back from the bush, and set out to resume delivery of hand grenades.
The aid they are giving China is to patrol the air of the southern end of the Burma Road and attempt to prevent our bombers from reaching it.
Perhaps bombers could have done the job sooner, but they couldn't possibly have done it any more thoroughly.
Just the same, I do not wish to lose any more of mybombers than I can help tomorrow.
I guess they're not taking chances on showing many lights in case our bomberscome over.
The roar of the bomberswas fading away to the south.
Out of the corner of his eye he caught flash glimpses of Stuka dive bombers cutting through the air at terrific speed.
He did not need two guesses to know that German bombers were once again dropping their loads of death and destruction upon the soldiers and civilians of the countries Adolf Hitler desired to crush under his iron heel.
However the pulsating beat of the engines told him they were Hitler's night bombers out on patrol.
Those Belgians took them for two members of the Nazi Air Force, and they were racing over to get vengeance for what those Stuka dive bombers had been doing to them.
Then the bombers and the heavy attack tanks, and such, go at the big forts.
And now as German troops, and their swiftly striking Panzer division were rushing across pontoon bridges to strike more blows at the Belgians, hundreds of Stuka dive bombers were blasting death and destruction into the ranks of the enemy.
The day-bombers fly at great heights, sometimes escorted and protected by single-seaters.
The bombers hurled their missiles prematurely, most of the bombs falling short; while the infantry, mown down in heaps, wavered, the survivors beginning to give way.
With their bayonets gleaming in the ruddy glare and preceded by the regimental bombers the khaki-clad troops, dexterously threading their way through the gaps in the barbed wire, charged irresistibly against the already broken enemy.
The Huns watched their approach with evident concern, so much so that the bombers engaged in a duel with the Wheatshires across the traverse abandoned the task and scurried to their dug-outs.
Some of the Huns dashed precipitately to their underground retreats, with parties of British bombers hard at their heels to rout them out of their deep dug-outs.
This done, they stood by to warn any parties of British bombers who in the heat of the pursuit might hurl their devastating missiles into the cellar.
At first it was a jolly disconcerting experience, and our Hun started shouting to the bombers to stop it--the skunk!
The men, gasping for breath, clung tenaciously to the side of the trench, except on the left flank where British and German bombers were hurling their missiles with deadly ferocity.
A shot rang out, and one of the British bombers dropped.
Our government has no more right to deprive us of propaganda than it has to deprive us of pursuit planes or bombers or anti-aircraft guns or antitoxin.
They needed desperately to know in February, 1942, why General MacArthur was performing a useful function in Bataan and why bombers were not sent to his aid; and this information came to them from the President.
When the attack began and the barrage lifted, these watchers called up the bombers and machine-gunners from their underground barracks, and had them in action within a few seconds.
I asked one of the bombers to see what was wrong with my hip.
A fewbombers were walking along the continuation of the front line.
A party of bombers or carriers of some description passed us.
While Kerr pumped lead into the massed enemy beneath his feet he directed the fire of his bombers so effectively, by voice and gesture, that the defenders were forced back to the shelter of the nearest bay.
Combe was killed by a rifle bullet as he was leading his gallant bombers up the trench in the climax of his triumph.
He immediately jumped down into the trench and went after them, with all the Canadian bombers and bayonet-men at his heels.
On the afternoon of the 16th, a party of bombers from the 49th Battalion undertook to clear this offending piece of trench and so make possible the consolidation of the entire frontage gained in the previous day's offensives.
Flight of Jap bombers approaching," he said, flinging the phone back on its hook.
But--one minute we were part of a task force and Jap bombers were having a go at us.
Craig remembered that Michaelson had been trying to reach the bridge just before the bombers struck, also that the man had been trying to get in touch with the captain just before the warning sounded that the bombers were approaching.
Finally the plans were given out; the raid was to cover about fifteen hundred yards of the enemy trench and the battalion scouts and bombers were the ones chosen to go over.
Woodrow, Webster, Corporal Grimsdale, and all the company bombers were sent out from there, and they held one of the craters.
Bink and Sammy took a bunch of bombers and went up to the advance post; and that left our numbers still smaller.
All bombers were heavily armed, and had the advantage of having at least one man free to repel attack with twin machine guns.
McGee knew, also, that the oncoming raiders might be pursuit planes converted into bombers by the simple expedient of attaching bomb releases carrying lighter pellets of destruction which could be released by the pilot.
This was the plane whose job it was to spot the target for the bombers and then zoom away.
And for a single Cat-Boat, escorting a dozen merchant ships and Corvette, to battle ten or a dozen Nazi bombers single handed and drive them off, was something you didn't even mention except in your official flight report.
The bombers will be on top of them long before that," Freddy said.
While the bombers concentrated on the U-boats below the escort fighters tore into the Nazi planes swarming about the helpless Catalina and practically shot them out of the sky with their withering bursts of fire.
The bombers will be falling in here in half a tick.
The foremost of the advancing Germans appeared in sight at a distance of about eighty yards from the devoted New Zealanders--bombers and riflemen in a compact mass--the advance guard of the formidable counter-attack.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bombers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
