One mornin' I comes up on two of the Brackenridge boys an' five more of the Chevy Chasers settin' on their hosses at the Skinner cross roads.
Dragendorff points out that all the famous chasers known to us were natives of Asia Minor,[3406] and thinks that Rhodes was probably the centre of this art.
The two chasers that had been pursuing the Raven, neither of which appeared to be capable of making more than fourteen knots an hour, were now almost within hailing distance.
The two chasers had been losing on the chase for the last half-hour, and Christy regarded them as out of the game.
If the chasers themselves are smoothly finished at the bottom, on an emery wheel, they are all the better.
Its form could be vaguely outlined to a depth of from fifty to seventy-five feet, unless the sea were choppy, and once it was discovered, chasers or trawlers were signaled to destroy it with bombs or to entangle it in nets.
To follow the U-boats out into rough water larger submarine-chasers were built, but even they could not cope with the enemy far from the harbors.
A torpedo has to have a fairly deep covering of water, else its course will be disturbed by surface waves; and the submarine-chasers drew so little water that a torpedo would pass harmlessly under them.
A similar apparatus was constructed for submarine-chasers with a standard range of conversation of over five miles.
This made it imperative to leave the shallower waters near shore and push out into the deep sea, where the small chasers could not pursue him.
During the war seaplanes carried wireless telephone apparatus with which they could call to destroyers and submarine-chasers when they spotted a submarine.
Submarines had to take to cover when these chasers were about.
This was particularly so in the case of submarine detection, when it was possible for a seaplane or a balloon to report its findings at once to submarine-chasers and destroyers, and to guide them in pursuit of submarines.
The stately white ship, making a wide sweep to port, came round, letting go her broadside of six guns and her two heavy bowchasers before she steadied on a course which would bring her very soon opposite the Irene.
The cruiser was now altering her course, and the water was piled up as she turned a few points to port, bringing her bow chasers to bear on the Swift.
And he can lick any ole bunch of cow-chasers in this country.
And if any of them cow-chasers from the mountain or the Concho starts monkeyin' with our sheep, there's sure goin' to be a cowboy funeral in these parts!
No chasers so far," he shouted, as he again stooped to his tools.
Two kinds of these chasers have been built, and both have shown their real worth.
In the first place, when submarine chasers and aircraft are scouting the seas in search of underwater boats it is not only dangerous but often impossible for a submarine to keep in touch with the base-ship by wireless.
Besides the submarine chasers just described, there are two other kinds that have shown great possibilities as destroyers of undersea craft.
The Hippolito kept discharging her stern chasers as she stood towards the strangers, who made all possible sail away, and the Spankaway fired her bow-guns without intermission, as she pursued her prize.
The chances are now that the noise of the submarine is louder; the chasers are getting "warmer.
Darkness was now closing in; our men saw that their vigil was to be a long one; they sent two chasers to Penzance, to get a new supply of bombs, and also sent a radio call for a destroyer.
As soon as the tumult quieted down, the chasers put out their tubes and listened.
The listeners on two different chasers heard these pistol cracks and counted them; the reports which these two men independently made agreed in every detail.
When daylight returned and the weather calmed down the chasers again put over their tubes and attempted to "fix" the U-boat.
A squadron of eighteen chasers had just arrived at the Azores, on the way to reinforce the flotilla at Plymouth; seven of these were at once despatched to Gibraltar on the chance that they might bar the passage of these U-boats.
In many ingenious ways thechasers supplemented the work of other anti-submarine craft.
The Commander-in-Chief on shore sometimes sent a radio that a German had appeared at an indicated spot, and disappeared beneath the waves; the chasers would then start for this location and begin hunting with their listeners.
The axles are connected with vertical shaft, and the wheel or chasers run in an annular pan or trough.
Pair of edge runners or chasersfor crushing or grinding.
The four guns each broadside that she carried were the long six-pound chasers that were then going into the new revenue service vessels, and they were good pieces for their caliber.
The upkeep of chasers is effected entirely with the resources of the base; operations are initiated by the British commander in chief at Plymouth.
A very compact and efficient base was in process of completion and should, with the aid of the subchaser tender Hannibal, amply suffice for the requirements of a larger number of chasers than that now available.
Three hundred and fifty-five of the 110-foot wooden submarine chasers were completed during the year.
Other destroyers remained here, of course, while a fringe of submarine-chasers and swift, armed yachts converted into government patrol-vessels were guarding our coast the day after the President signed the war resolution.
Our modern submarine-chasers are merely a modified form of the torpedo-boat destroyer.
Hundreds of submarine-chasers have now been built, and a number of destroyers and other craft completed and placed in service.
Submarine-chasers are shallow craft, capable of a speed of thirty-five miles an hour or more, mounting guns fore and aft.
That's one of the new chasers all right," Whistler agreed.
We don't often see one of those chasers in the cove here.
There is a flock of U-boat chasers and destroyers out after the German submarines.
Of course his path is devious and tortuous on the water, his resort being quick turns, while the chasers gain in speed.
In one of these punt chases at Cowes the punter had several times plunged into the sea, and amid shouts and cheers he was always closely followed by one of his chasers who swam almost equally well.
Once more she came up closer than ever, and once more yawed; the single shots from her bow-chasers doing considerable damage, but her raking broadsides none.
In the midst of the confusion Captain Byron's stern-chasers opened with spirit and effect, killing or wounding six men more.
Seaplanes, small dirigibles on the order of the English "blimp" type, and kite balloons have already shown themselves to be more effective in detecting submarines than are submarine chasers or armed liners.
In a crowded playground it is well to require that thechasers follow over exactly the same route as the pebble man.
The teacher calls two numbers, when the players bearing those numbers must rise at once and exchange seats, the two chasers trying to catch them before they can get to their seats.
Say, are you doing this for a wager, or are some mad cow-chasers after you?
Everybody came or sent a hired man, and blame quaint plowing some of them cow-chasers done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chasers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
