The world's great rewards have been paid to the great destroyers of our race rather than to its saviors.
In the next order of insects, the Orthoptera, the gryllus, or locust tribe, as they are the greatestdestroyers of food, so as some recompense they furnish a considerable supply of it to numerous nations.
Fortunately these destroyers did not meddle with the corn, or famine would have followed in their train.
The next description of insect destroyers are those which devour them in their first and last states.
Perhaps you imagine that these universal destroyersspare at least our garments, in which you may at first conceive there can be nothing very tempting to excite even the appetite of an insect.
And in addition forty-two modern destroyers and fifty modern torpedo boats, as chosen by the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers.
Jones called for star shell illumination from thedestroyers in the lagoon.
While the Marines were enthusiastic about the response from destroyers in the lagoon, they were critical of the extent and accuracy of the preliminary bombardment, especially when it was terminated so prematurely on D-Day.
Many historians have attributed this good fortune to the continued direct fire support 2/8 received throughout its run to the beach from the destroyers Ringgold and Dashiell in the lagoon.
The battleships, cruisers, anddestroyers of Task Force 53 began a saturation bombardment of Betio for the next several hours.
Two destroyers in the lagoon responded quickly and accurately.
Hermle finally caught a boat to one of the destroyers in the lagoon to relay Shoup’s request to the commanding general to land reinforcements on Red Beach Two.
For Dinadan had such a custom that he loved all good knights that were valiant, and he hated all those that were destroyers of good knights.
One of our destroyers is replying," Lieutenant Mackinson announced, and one by one he jotted down the words: "Continue same direction.
On the following morning two additional destroyers bore down upon them from opposite points off the bow almost simultaneously, and as they came both code-telegraphed their identity.
Every city that keeps up a red light district breeds these destroyers of girls.
Commerce-destroyers scatter, that they may see and seize more prey.
The names of the torpedo-boat destroyers were the Furor and the Pluton.
Some one said to him: "Those Spanish destroyers have heavier batteries than yours.
We know, however, that she lost twelve cruisers, two torpedo-boat destroyers and twenty-one gunboats from her list of fighting ships.
Both destroyers were trying their best to sink us; we refused to go down.
They have constructed no underground railroads to bring into our midst incendiaries and destroyers of the peace, and to carry off stolen property.
We have been told that it is your proudest boast that you are a rebel, and that you are ever on duty to aid and abet in every possible way the wouldbe destroyers of the United States government.
You know we have been trying some experiments in German waters lately, and the Hun destroyers have been so confoundedly active that our fellows have had to pass a lot of their time sitting on the bottom.
Though we had parted company from thedestroyers long before, we were, of course, travelling without lights in view of possible danger, and only the binnacle lamp shed a soft radiance on the ship's compass.
In addition to the vessels building in Bridgeport, he possessed Fore River, with a battleship and two destroyers on the ways; Quincy, with eight submarines in course of construction, and the Portsmouth Navy Yard with one.
This time the alertdestroyers had not missed their aim.
Our ships and air scouts, and the army air scouts, are trying to penetrate the screen of cruisers, destroyers and enemy air-craft to find the real fleet with the convoys.
The dreadnaught’s circlingdestroyers were coming at the ship headlong.
It was a hundred miles of steel forts; and outside of them, dashing back and forth in ceaseless patrol, were the lighter and faster craft, consisting of destroyers and small, swift cruisers.
See loss of U-12 on March 10 merely through destruction of periscope, which permitted enemy destroyers to ram her.
That thing out there could blow us off the island, men, women and [Illustration: “Destroyers moved straight for the harbor in a long line.
Hostile cruisers and destroyers patrolled all the Atlantic coast, taking the precaution merely to stay out of range of the harbor defenses.
The people of Block Island, watching destroyers steaming slowly toward the New England coast with strings of their fishing boats in tow, noted a curious thing.
Its little harbors were being used by destroyers and small craft as if they had been foreign naval bases forever.
The destroyers had steamed in, and were giving their men aid with their search-lights.
He made an attempt on Winthrop, and lost two destroyers in the mine fields.
A third, and wholly artificial class of destroyers has been introduced.
Almost any number of wrens may thus be attracted round the house and garden, where they act as vigilant destroyers of insects.
All the available destroyers and chasers ordered there.
Those destroyers are--but I'm proud of you, so proud!
The sound detectors on the advance destroyers won’t catch us, then.
Those things you hear are bombs from airplanes—our airplanes chasing the destroyers away from us and blasting the daylights out of the convoy we’ve scattered.
The destroyers would have started to toss depth charges like snowflakes if they had sighted a periscope of any kind.
Destroyers coming in up above, sir,” the sound man said.
Battleships, cruisers, and destroyers will go in closer.
Always on the lookout for enemy ships, officers and crew alike had been disappointed to run into nothing but an American task force, consisting of a carrier, a cruiser, and three destroyers racing north at full speed.
As he flew on further he made out a carrier in the center and at the end three cruisers and moredestroyers kept a rear guard.
Up ahead and at the sides weredestroyers and near the front a battleship—no, two battleships.
When the destroyers are after you, they follow you—and their depth charges are bigger.
I’m going to feel pretty confident when we suddenly have six Jap destroyers pouncing on us all of a sudden.
The Japs were taken by surprise, lost their tight organization, and fled north, leaving behind three troopships and four destroyers heading for the bottom.
Among commerce-destroyers the Columbia and the Minneapolis, with their respective trial speeds of 22.
There'll be a dozen destroyers and chasers combing the sea for that sub within fifteen minutes.
It is interesting to compare the graphic description of a locust-storm in Joel, with its adaptation to an army of human destroyers in the Apocalypse.
The boats and destroyers steal in towards the land.
At ten minutes to six she sank, but happily not until our destroyers had taken off nearly all her ship's company.
Meanwhile, the German destroyers had attempted an attack, but had been driven off by the British destroyers.
In a few minutes he heard the screws of the destroyers churning above him.
Again the enemydestroyers attacked at close quarters, hoping to torpedo the Lion and the Tiger.
The night of Saturday, the 23rd, was foggy, and our destroyers scouting east of the Dogger Bank tossed all night on the waves, scarcely able to pierce the gloom for a hundred yards around them.
The Ocean, a British battleship, fifteen years old, suddenly sank; but once more the destroyers were on the alert, and few lives were lost.
On 17th October a squadron of German destroyerswas encountered off the Dutch coast by a similar British squadron, and before long four of the enemy ships were sent to the bottom of the sea.
The Russians lost an old gunboat, while the Germans had eight destroyers and two cruisers either sunk or put out of action, and a submarine driven ashore.
Away go the boats, and, forty minutes later, the destroyers follow them.
Close upon them were the British destroyers and the light cruisers, which now crossed to the port side in order that their smoke might not hide the big German ships from the British gunners.
The rescue of the Irresistible's crew was a very gallant and skilful bit of work, for the destroyers were under Turkish fire all the time.
When a big fish was caught the floats of the nets gave warning, and destroyers promptly arrived to deal with it.
He knew that the Zeppelin believed him to be entangled in the net, and that it was sure to signal for destroyers to come and finish him off, so he sat tight and waited.
Hoover thought at first they were coming from English destroyers aiming at the Germans.
As the boat and convoying destroyers drew near to Zeebrugge, shells or bombs began to drop on the water around them.
On the occasion of one of Hoover's crossings two German destroyers lying outside of Flushing harbor ordered the little Dutch boat to accompany them to Zeebrugge for examination.
We had then to cross secretly by English dispatch boats, protected by destroyers and specially hunted by German submarines.
The anti-aircraft guns of the German destroyers soon drove them away, and the convoy came into Zeebrugge harbor where the Dutch boat and passengers were inspected with German thoroughness.
Still bent on designs against the destroyers of his country, the patriot warrior repaired to Rhodes, where death delivered the Spartans from the terror of his revenge.
The escape of this passage from the destroyers can be accounted for only in the same way as the passage of Minucius Felix (quoted in Chapter XX.
The existence, in the writings of Minucius Felix, of this passage, is probably owing to an oversight of the destroyers of all evidences against the Christian religion that could be had.
As for the torpedo-boats, the Japanese destroyers and smaller cruisers had made short work of them.
As the Chih' Yuen clove her way through the water, one of the Japanese destroyers discharged a torpedo at her, which missed her by inches only.
The first enemy projectiles set the oil tanks on the southwest portion of Wake ablaze while the two converted destroyers prepared to land their Special Naval Landing Force troops.
If those numbers proved insufficient, Kajioka’s supporting destroyers were to provide men to augment the landing force.
The Tangier was to be detached with two destroyers to run in to Wake to begin the evacuation of the civilians and to disembark the Marines.
As the destroyers that had dueled Battery B opened the range and stood away from Wake, the Wildcats roared in.
At about the time Greeley and Godbold reached Devereux’s command post with Battery D’s Marines, Second Lieutenant Kessler, at Battery B, shifted his attention to a column of three destroyers off Kuku Point.
After Platt passed along Potter’s order to McAlister to estimate it, Battery L opened fire and scored hits on one of the transports, prompting the escorting destroyers to stand toward the troublesome guns.
Japanese forces had landed, supported by cruisers and destroyers and, probably, by a covering force nearby.
His ships fully fueled and ready for battle, Fletcher planned to detach the Tangier and two destroyers for the final run-in to Wake, while the pilots on board the Saratoga prepared themselves for the fight ahead.
Having received a report of Japanese destroyers standing toward Wake’s south shore (and well inside the range of the 5-inch batteries that had so vexed the enemy on 11 December), Second Lieutenant Robert M.
The latter are exceedingly numerous, and are most valuable destroyers of insects; there are several varieties, but the most common is the bright copper-coloured species with a smooth skin.
The Cypriotes are easily governed, and should a few severe examples be made public when the destroyers had been taken in the act, an exceedingly small staff of foresters would be sufficient to insure order and protection.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "destroyers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
