Elephants were, of old, employed in India in the launching of ships.
At the Moliere Theatre a drama of the day represents him as launching the thunderbolts of his logic and virtue at Rohan and Condé.
Before either of these plans could mature the Germans upset both by launching their great attack at 4 a.
After a six weeks' siege, and a preliminary bombardment preparatory to launching a final assault, the garrison capitulated (7th Nov.
At ten o'clock all hopes of keeping the wreck afloat had disappeared; and the last alternative of a watery grave, or launching upon the broad ocean, presented its stern terms for their acceptance.
The Chaldean narrator seems to have overlooked this simple consideration, for he mentions a launching and trial-trip of the ship, a sure mark that he is a later authority than the writer in Genesis.
The boat was reached, but now came the difficulty of launching her; for the wind having shifted to the south, the sea raised across the broad estuary drove directly into the bay.
As she got into the middle of the harbour, the cove in which the canoes lay opened out, and a large number of savages were seen in the act of launching them.
The launching of the ship was to be at flood-tide, eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
They found her a very charming lady; she had brought her little boy, John Quincy, to see the launching of the ship.
They saw the sailors of the warships, and of the vessels which had brought the new troops, launching their boats and putting them in order.
She lived again the hour of their first meeting, that of the afternoon tea-party, the launching of the Berinthia Brandon, the ride in the pung.
I only saw Mr. Stanley at the time of the launching of the ship, you remember, but thought him worthy of any woman's love.
The launching of the ship's boat means something," said Mr. Adams.
With story and jest the company enjoyed the banquet and then were rowed to the shore, all shaking hands with Berinthia and congratulating her upon the successful launching of the vessel bearing her name.
The ground trembled, while these molten waves, launching into the sky their wreaths of smoke, evaporated the moisture of the mould and hurled it upwards through the vent-holes of the stone lining in the form of dense vapour-clouds.
And friend Murchison, with his chronometer in hand, his eye fixed on the needle, his finger on the electric apparatus, is counting the seconds preparatory to launching us into interplanetary space.
Arrangements had now been completed for thelaunching of an offensive on the high ground south of La Bassée Canal in the direction of Loos and Hulluch.
And the old, old creation-dawn scheme of ultimately launching me into the literary guild would have been defeated.
As already described, nearly all the batteries were heavily shelled just before the launching of the attack early in the morning.
On Wednesday, April 4th, began the bombardment proper, the five-day bombardment which was to precede the launching of the Spring offensive.
Then again they saw land, and launching their boat they rowed ashore.
The new ship which was being built for Ferdinando Gorges mysteriously fell to pieces on the very launching of it, and Captain Mason died.
There was a hearty laugh at this, but they were all serious directly, and the question of the launching was taken up.
Very, gentlemen, but I want to talk to you about launching our lugger, she's getting well on toward being ready.
He must have known very well that the name of such a Tyrtaeus cannot reappear as the editor of Le Sens Commun; that in launching his little firebrand he burned all vessels that could waft him back to the port he had quitted.
The first sunshine glinted on the two rockets and their single, attendant gantry tower, waiting on the launching pad.
I'll say so long at the launching catapults, later.
Sidenote: Launchingthe Canoe] But I was by no means satisfied that the plan was impossible, and I went down to the shore at low tide to look about me.
It lay in a kind of metallic cradle, almost like a ship ready for launching on its ways.
Moreover, it's customary to christen every launching with champagne.
We had nothing resembling a boat on the island, and we had no tools for making one; and even had we been put in possession of such a treasure, we had no means of launching it.
The boat had been emptied out, the oars, masts, and sails, were on the rocks; and the men were turning the bows to the seaward in readiness for launching her over the ledge of rocks.
Before launching their canoes into strange waters, which were to bear them into unknown lands, they knelt on the bank and offered up devout aspirations to God for continued success.
At a given signal the aeroplane was released from the overhead launching apparatus on the upper deck of the house-boat.
The larger aeroplane with the engineer Manly on board was first tested on October 7 of the same year, but the front guy post caught in the launching car and the machine plunged into the water a few feet from the house-boat.
Langley's method of launching had been proved practical, but Curtiss finally decided to start from the water, and accordingly fitted the aeroplane with hydroaeroplane floats.
Again difficulty occurred with the launching gear, the rear wings and rudder being wrecked before the aeroplane was clear of the ways.
Before he could test his larger steam-driven models, made for the most part of steel and weighing about one thousand times as much as the air displaced, Langley spent many months contriving and constructing suitable launching apparatus.
