She was a formidable adversary; and though the monitors were depended upon to "neutralize" or destroy her, they moved so slowly and steered so badly, that the brunt of the battle was borne by the wooden ships.
The monitors and other gunboats were busily engaged up the river shelling the camps of the enemy.
The broadsides from the New Ironsides were terrific, and the five monitors in line, together with five other gunboats, seemed to pour shell enough into Wagner to start several first class iron foundries.
At first guns from antiquated battle-ships were used in the monitors; then larger guns were used, until finally two of the monitorsinherited the 18-inch guns of the Furious.
These monitorswere very broad for their length and were very slow.
The blisters made the monitors very difficult to steer and hampered the progress of a ship, particularly in a seaway.
The great hulls of monitors loomed black against the paling east, and the long thin lines of destroyers moved stealthily across the shadowy sea.
Tiny bright flashes from white puffs of smoke appeared in the central blue, and then having got the range the great guns of the monitors roared away their charges and the scream of shells filled the air.
The British monitors which so successfully bombarded the Belgian coast and the fortifications of the Dardanelles were fitted with blisters, and more than one of them owed their salvation to this means.
Then Pontifex ordered the names to be put into a hat, and handed round for each of the monitors to draw.
Mansfield read the letter contemptuously, as did all the monitors who had the real good of Templeton at heart.
And they had got into the abominable habit of obeyingmonitors and associating with questionable characters, such as Richardson, Aspinall, and the like.
Don't I owe you too much already for cutting me, and talking of me behind my back, and letting the monitors make a catspaw of you to hurt me?
Suppose I told you he and his fellow- monitors resorted to a mean dodge to get me to resign my monitorship, and then got up this precious Club in order to soft-soap their own toadies for helping them to do it?
The school rules are made to be kept, and the monitors are appointed to see they are kept; and any boy that says otherwise is an enemy to Templeton, and he will be treated accordingly.
There was great joking during the meal about the escapade in the lobby last night, the general opinion being that it had been grand sport all round, and that it was lucky the monitors weren't at home at the time.
Three grim monitors tugged at their anchor chains, apparently impatient at the restraint, while a few graceful, clean-cut, converted yachts swung with the tide.
Indeed, when the deputation reported their bad success to the monitors who awaited them, the general feeling was far more one of anger at being snubbed than of repentance for having done a foolish thing.
Now came a third petition, signed by certain monitors of two houses, asking the doctor to withdraw one captain and substitute another.
Riddell found himself powerless to control the excitement, and the other monitors were most of them too much interested in the event themselves to be of much service.
Prayers ended at last, and while the other monitors repaired to the Sixth Form room to discuss the presentation of the petition as narrated in our last chapter, Riddell walked dejectedly to his study and prepared to receive company.
As soon as third school was over that afternoon the monitors assembled in the Sixth Form room to discuss the situation.
Many of the schoolhouse monitors had felt as sore as anybody about the appointments, but this sort of talk inclined not a few of them to take Riddell's side.
And so in rather desponding mood the two friends separated, and Telson had an exciting chase across the quadrangle to avoid two monitors who were prowling about there (as he concluded) for the express purpose of "potting" him.
Tucker and Wibberly, the only two monitors engaged, were completely doubled up, while the number of maimed and disabled Limpets and juniors was nearly beyond counting.
A notice went round from the doctor to the monitors the next day asking them to assemble directly after chapel the following morning in the library.
The two monitors were Gilks of the schoolhouse and Silk of Welch's, who were taking the air this hot summer evening, and thinking and talking of anything but Master Telson.
I know a lot of the schoolhouse monitors think just the same as we do," said Tipper, "but they're so precious jealous for their house.
He was surprised to see three monitors obey the invitation.
Andrew Bell, a clergyman in the Established Church, published the results of his experiment in the use of monitors in India.
The teacher first taught these monitors a lesson from a printed card, and then each monitor took his row to a "station" about the wall and proceeded to teach the other boys what he had just learned.
It had been decided, in view of the other monitors that were building, to make the trial trip of the second rocket-cruiser also a training voyage, with Beeville and Yoshio replacing Murray Lee and Gloria in her crew.
As the monitors plunged in, from every green globe that could bring them to bear, the long yellow rays shot forth.
You run along and build some more monitors and go get whatever comes out of here.
I'll bet a boat-load of Monitors against a thought-helmet that it's magnetic.
The monitors worked slowly, but delivered their fire as opportunity offered.
The fourmonitors were arranged in the following order, to the right or starboard of the gunboats: the Tecumseh, Commander T.
Nor was this the worst; for the Tecumseh's mistake had thrown the other monitors out of their proper line-ahead, athwart the wooden ships, which began to slow and swing about in some confusion.
There he found the guards, the five radiological safety monitors assigned to the evacuation detachment, and the Commanding Officer of the evacuation detachment (1; 18).
According to a report written by the detachment commander, a reinforced platoon was sent to the town of Bingham, about 29 kilometers northeast of the test site, while offsite radiological safety monitors surveyed the area.
Five radiological safety monitors were assigned to this detachment.
The chief monitor then returned to the south shelter and assembled the monitors from the three roadblocks and Guard Post 4 to prepare for entrance into the ground zero area.
Soon after the detonation, the monitors surveyed the area immediately around the shelters and then proceeded out the access road to its intersection with the main road, Broadway.
Monitors also surveyed the Base Camp for 24 hours after the detonation.
Since it was expected that any dust from the cloud would fall on one of the shelter areas within 30 minutes of the shot, plans had been made to evacuate personnel as soon as the monitors completed their initial survey.
Moreover, the little monitors were often found to make up in brightness, tractability and energy for their lack of experience, and to teach the arts of reading, writing and computing with surprising success.
Lancaster inspired his young monitors with fondness for their work and with pride in the institution of which they formed a part.
On the next day Spangler, who had hitherto been confined in the Old Capitol Prison, was transferred to one of the Monitors and presumably subjected to the same treatment.
But the combat did not last very long, for the merciful darkness came down about an hour after the monitorshad been towed out, and put an end to the action.
She brought word that the two monitors had been the Manco Capac and Atahualpa, and that the Hereschoff torpedo-boat, under Juarez, had blown up the latter, but had herself been destroyed by the Manco Capac.
Salaried monitors are employed in the Irish schools, but, unlike the English pupil teachers, are not explicitly recognized as forming part of the school staff.
Without paying the faintest attention to the Dardanelles forts the monitors could strike hard at Constantinople.
Off the East Goodwins they were joined by two monitors and three pre-Dreadnought battleships, and the battle line was formed.
The monitors led the main division, the cruisers acting as links between them and the battleships, which, owing to their greater draught, could not approach the coast nearer than a distance of from four to seven miles.
He relaxed back in his seat and divided his gaze between the video monitors and the actual scene on either side of him in the night.
Both troopers had their individual sets of video monitors on in front of their seats and were watching them intently.
The monitors flicked to the next block and Ben waited just long enough to see the speeding car make a move to the left, cutting in front of a speeding cargo carrier.
The monitors were synchronized with the radiometer and changed view at every ten-mile marker.
The video monitors flicked to the next ten-mile stretch as the patrol car rolled past another interchange.
Kelly had been glued to the video monitors since the first of the bulletin.
Ben was watching his monitors and missed the glance.
Eight pairs of eyes were fixed on video monitors set for the ten-mile block to the rear of the four vehicles.
This place is sure to have video monitors everywhere.
At the last instant he twisted, trying to right himself, but before he could he'd slammed into the bank of video monitors on the opposite wall.
After Tanzan Mino watched him depart, he reached down and activated a line of personal video monitors beside his desk.
The video monitors in his office were hard-wired directly to the main console in Flight Control, replicating its data displays, and all decisions passed across his desk.
The vehicle's radar signature immediately disappeared off the tracking monitors at Katsura.
Then the monitors confirmed they were rotating to takeoff attitude, seven degrees.
Therefore they say well who call our bodily sufferings the monitors of the evil within.
Wherefore, of a truth, all the other blessings which we have mentioned are but as the monitors of those blessings which we have within, and which God would by than commend unto us.
Had they exploded close to the side of either of the monitors it would be doubtful whether, even with their elaborate protection against torpedoes, they would have kept afloat after the terrific concussion.
Already the monitors looked no larger than toy boats upon an ornamental pond.
With the Myra's crew confined on board the raider, the British monitors dare not open fire upon her.
Astern, but on a diverging course, were the monitors Paradox and Eureka, the former flying the broad pendant of the senior officer, Captain Holloway.
Clearing ship for action took but little preparation, since the monitors carried only what was necessary as floating batteries.
All that was visible of each of the monitors consisted of a low-lying hull of great beam, on which was placed a turret mounting two gigantic guns.
Two of the monitors were lying at anchor in the river.
Two hours before sunrise the crews of the monitors were called to "action" stations.
The French use the belt system, and our own monitors may be classed under it.
The later monitors had laminated armor composed of one-inch plates.
And understand too, that even if the majority of the school had been against us, we monitors are not quite so ignorant of our solemn duty as to make that any reason for letting a brutal and cowardly act of bullying go unpunished.
So the monitors separated, not without hopes that things were beginning to look a little brighter than before.
But who, he asked, were these monitors that they should thrash any one at all?
Kenrick was in the second fifth, and Power, young as he was, had now attained the upper fifth, which stands next to the dignity of the monitors and the sixth.
But his pride and passion were too strong for him, and coldly rising, he put it to the meeting, "whether they decided that the monitors had the right to interfere or not.
There have been monitors at Saint Winifred's for a hundred years now, and it's infinitely better for the school that there should be.
The monitors have convened a meeting this morning to decide about Harpour; and, to tell you the truth, I shouldn't wonder if the school got up a counter-meeting.
And he looked wistfully after his brother as they parted at the door of the hall, and Walter walked up to the chief table where the monitors sat, while he went to find a place among the boys in his own form and house.
Yes, and with that fellow Kenrick for a protagonist," said Henderson; "he and Harpour have always been at mischief about the monitors since they caught it so tremendously from Somers.
And you've been chattering so much that the new fellow's had none," said Henderson, as a bell rang and one of the monitors read a short Latin grace.
On the whole, they were nearly unanimous in agreeing that the school should prevent the monitors from any exercise of their authority.
They mounted anti-aircraft guns too and were prepared to defend the monitors against assaults from the heavens above as well as from the sinister attack of the underwater boats.
As they made their way toward the land they were accompanied by a fleet of light draft monitors especially built for this service, each mounting two heavy guns and able to manoeuvre in shallow water.
The great guns of the monitors roared steadily and their twelve and fourteen-inch projectiles rent in pieces the bomb proofs of the Germans, driving the Boches to cover and reducing their works to mere heaps of battered concrete.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monitors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
