The motorship could be kept aloft a number of days, and plenty of food and supplies could be carried, in addition to several passengers.
Yes, and I suppose Mr. Glassford will soon be sending our motorship back,” admitted Jerry.
The motorship Comet I have also described in other books, so I will only mention it briefly here.
He won’t be there himself, as he has to come east, but he’s paid a man to take charge of the motorshipfor us.
Accordingly the propellers were again started and the motorship was driven here and there as a dirigible.
As I have already described the motorship in previous books of this series I will not go into details now.
Noddy and Bill are taking it calmly enough,” observed the tall lad, as indeed the two plotters were, for they could be seen gazing up at the motorship as if they knew its power and what it would do.
A great crowd had assembled, for, somehow, word had gone forth that the motorship was to make a flight.
The motorship had been forwarded in sections and a supply of gasoline arranged for in Kabspell.
The great motorship arose, and through the mist and rain ascended from the valley of the luminous snakes and the sixty nuggets of gold.
The Comet swept along at wonderful speed and soon they were back at Kabspell, where they intended to take their motorship apart, and go home by train, with the gold and the professor’s snakes.
Then, like a bird, the motorship sailed aloft, leaving the disappointed plotters behind.
I’ll try it,” agreed Jerry, and a few minutes afterward the motorship was safely anchored, while night settled down over the mysterious valley.
I guess we’ve taught them a lesson,” remarked Jerry, when the motorship was clear of the earth, and the last Indian had dropped off.
The big propellers whizzed around, the motorship quivered from end to end, and then began to shoot across the ground on the starting wheels.
In fact the Comet was a veritable motorship of the air, as much so as a yacht would be on some lake or ocean.
The extra mechanics had been paid off, and, true to his prediction, Jerry was ready to give the motorship a trial.
The propellers were started, and the motorship skimmed over the meadow.
As they began falling downward they could hear from below murmurs of fear, for the great crowd thought the motorship was wrecked.
They have been running one of the best airships ever made, and they just won the hundred mile race at Colton in their motorship Comet.
Brown and Black, talking of the aeroplane Silver Star, and planning what they would do when they took their own motorship Comet to the coming aviation meet, Jerry and his chums were soon speeding back toward Cresville in their auto.
Well, we'll soon be out in the motorship again if we conclude to go to the aviation meet; and maybe they'll have some new tools on exhibition there.
The Comet was given a final trial flight the next day, and the boys, in company with Professor Snodgrass, went through some intricate evolutions, as well as testing the speed of the motorship on a straight-away course.
Now if we'd been out in our motorship Comet we shouldn't have had any trouble at all.
Then, setting the water-screw in motion, he directed the motorship about on the lake, to the no small amazement of some motor-boat enthusiasts who were there.
They said they would need a day to stock up the motorship for a long voyage, and get plenty of gasolene aboard.
But just as Jerry got the propellers in motion, and as the motorship was slowly moving to one side the Winner topped her.
The big propellers whirred around like the blades of an electric fan, and the motorship quivered from end to end.
Airships were coming more and more into prominence, and it was not long before our friends had a fine motorship called the Comet.
And none too soon," added Bob, as another gust sent the motorship on end.
Ned, as he hastened here and there, helping Jerry get ready to send the motorship on her way again.
The last was not easy as the motorship plunged and swayed, spilling part of the beverage.
The motorship was moving slowly, her propellers barely revolving enough to give her steerage-way.
Part of the wrecked motorshiprested on the deck of the submarine.
Our folks will surely be worried about us, especially if any part of our wrecked motorship is picked up by some vessel.
But the motorshiphad passed safely through hard blows before, and Jerry and his chums hoped this would be no exception.
On these the motorship could float, motionless if need be, while the boys investigated the wreck.
The above colloquy took place between Jerry, Ned and Bob in the big shed that housed the motorship Comet, a few hours after their decision to start in their air craft in search of the wreck of the Hassen.
Yes, your experience in your motorshipcomes in well,” observed Ted.
After these adventures the boys returned home, and to while away the time they had again put in commission their motorship Comet and gone to the Boston aviation meet.
Down the motorship was plunging toward the sea that seemed eagerly awaiting her.
Jerry sent the motorship about in ever-increasing circles, and the eyes of one or another of the boys were constantly directed downward.
Meanwhile the occupants of the motorship busied themselves about various tasks.
A moment later the motorship ceased her descent, and was floating on an even keel, a short distance above the rolling waves, blown gently along by the wind, for her propellers were not revolving.
The motorship was, as its name indicates, a veritable ship, and the addition of hydroplanes enabled it to navigate on the water as well as in the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motorship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
