But, strangest of all, a British destroyer was puffing serenely behind them.
The ship shook and shivered, and Fuller was thrown on his face beside the searchlight, and as I looked again the destroyer had resumed its normal proportions.
Suddenly I gasped with astonishment as I awoke to the fact that every man on board the destroyer was wearing motor-goggles!
I rushed and got the glasses done for the men, picked up the destroyer at Mallaig, and made round here to find out what was happening.
The green ray was produced by a searchlight, and every man on the destroyer would be blind.
A typical example of this was the action of the destroyer Defender, under Lieutenant-Commander Laurence R.
With him were also the First, Second, and Third Light Cruiser Squadrons and the First, Ninth, Tenth, and Thirteenth Destroyer Flotillas.
Meanwhile the Swift, herself partially disabled, had lost touch with the vanishing enemy, and, coming about, had sighted the destroyer rammed by the Broke and now on the verge of sinking.
It was while thus guarding the Venerable that the destroyer Falcon came under a very heavy fire from the enemy's larger guns, and exhibited, in the persons of her officers and crew, the utmost coolness and devotion.
Peploe, continued the action, bringing his destroyer out, in the words of Commodore Tyrwhitt, "in an able and gallant manner under most trying conditions.
I, Zephoranim, the destroyerof my friend and first favorite in the realm?
To propitiate and pacify an unseen Supreme Destroyer is the aim of all religions,-- and it is for this reason we add to our worship of the Sun that of the White Serpent, Nagaya the Mediator.
Heaven of Heavens, the Throne of the All-Seeing Glory, the Giver of Law, the Destroyer of Evil!
By sending the equipment with our Service Engineer via a passenger train to the south of Italy and via destroyer to Malta we were able to meet the ship there on the day she arrived.
Illustration: The Destroyer is the grey-hound of the sea.
Following in our wake the second destroyer looms up darkly, and after her all the others in line.
He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
A destroyer took Selwyn across to the great fortress inside the Virginia Capes and left him there.
Let each unhallowed cause that brings The stern destroyer cease, Thy flaming angel fold his wings, And seraphs whisper Peace!
Admiral Voelkersam had been killed, and Rozhestvenski himself wounded and transferred to a destroyer in an unconscious state, the command being assumed by Nebogatov.
Many answered him again: As for our most noble King Arthur, we love him and honour him as well as ye do, but as for Queen Guenever we love her not, because she is a destroyer of good knights.
Fair lords, said Sir Bors, meseemeth ye say not as ye should say, for never yet in my days knew I never nor heard say that ever she was a destroyer of any good knight.
And never would ye do me none, but ever ye have been against me, and a destroyer of my knights; now, how will ye acquit you?
Sir, said Bleoberis, he is the most coward knight, and a devourer of ladies and a destroyer of good knights and especially of Arthur's.
Crested chicks should be treated with a grease lice-destroyer at least once a fortnight.
A skunk's pelt is worth two dollars and a half or more and although he is of undoubted value to the farmer as a destroyer of insect pests, I shall not undertake his defence.
He looked reflectively at the guns of the destroyer and added ingratiatingly: "Of course I disapprove of George Bernard Shaw's vulgarizing the language of diplomacy in that way.
On one side of the ship a destroyer was plowing through white mounds of foam; and overhead there was one of the new silver-skinned scouting air-ships.
The Gustave Adolph Society is a proof how, in former times, Protestants have united themselves with the foreign invader and destroyer of our country against the Catholic Emperor of Germany.
Some few that were spared by the relentless destroyer have been obliterated by damp and the effects of time.
Yet the Destroyer Fate had lured him on To war, upon the threshold of glad youth, When youth is bold, and the heart feels no void.
It was a long time before he materialized in this alarming way into the destroyer of our little industry--Heyst the Enemy.
His son buried the silenced destroyer of systems, of hopes, of beliefs.
Within the last fifteen minutes a destroyer has given a long blast on her whistle, followed by two short, the signal that a submarine has been sighted.
I noticed no fewer than six make off in a body towards Lemnos, while Thomson remarked that a destroyer had been going backwards and forwards among the shipping off the point of the peninsula.
In the morning a destroyerwas seen astern, convoying a large transport.
They forged along till they came abreast of us where the ship remained, the destroyergoing some distance ahead and keeping there for the afternoon.
There must have been many drownings, even with a United States destroyer near by and speeding to the rescue.
Nothing whatever was said of the shot fired at the submerging U-boat by a United States torpedo-boat destroyer speeding to the rescue.
Lacking accommodations for the rescued, it was stated, the destroyer had summoned by wireless the east-bound freight steamship Saratoga, which had trans-shipped the unfortunates and turned back to New York.
The destroyerof innocence indeed," replied Magdalena, with a voice broken and suffocating.
Wide was the dragon's warring seen, its fiendish fury far and near, as the grim destroyer those Geatish people hated and hounded.
Twere long to relate how that land-destroyer I paid in kind for his cruel deeds; yet there, my prince, this people of thine got fame by my fighting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "destroyer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
