The skin of the "sausages," as the balloons were commonly called from their shape, was too soft to offer sufficient resistance to explode a shell of any size.
Ever since Mr. Lake began inventing and building submarines he has been interested in the possibilities which submarines offer for the exploration of the sea-bottom and for the discovery of wrecks and recovery of their valuable cargoes.
A monument still recalls their fate, which however is more picturesquely recorded in the signs of sundry inns and cafés of the neighbourhood which offer refreshment in the name of Les Aviateurs Perdus.
Slight hills, gentle elevations, offerno contrast to the general plain.
Only when a trail rope dragging along the ground or sea is employed does the sail offer sufficient resistance to the wind to sway the balloon's course this way or that.
They offer as good a target for a bomb from above as the aircraft does to their shots from below.
Its battles must be fought in the sky, and its devotees must be willing to offer their lives to the cause.
The only man who should not advertise is the man who has nothing to offer the world in way of commodity or service.
A flimflam offer by a theologian of inchoate title to improved real estate in the Sky for real estate, rentals and cash on Earth.
As soon as Cavalier saw the royals advancing, he ordered his men, according to custom, to offer up prayers to God, and when these were finished he disposed his troops for battle.
The reason for the offer was that Canaye and his friends, having heard that the last words of Grandier had affected Pere Lactance's mind, expected to find a great deal of amusement in exciting the terrors of their travelling-companion.
He was awoke in the night of the 5th-6th April by a courier from General Ambert, who sent to offer him the command of the 2nd Subdivision.
This offer being refused, the electoral commissioners withdrew, and the rebels retired behind their fortifications.
The messenger also intimated that if the offer he had brought were not quickly accepted--say within two hours--the time for capitulation would have gone by, and that he would not be answerable for what the people might then do in their fury.
They proposed to buy him in that way, and they commissioned me to see him privately and to offer him certain terms.
They were so well satisfied with my endeavours to gain the cause, as to offer to propose me as a candidate for the representation of their borough at the next vacancy.
The object of this book is, by meeting these conditions, to offer a fairly probable explanation of the priesthood of Nemi.
Those who were too poor to offer a pig on this day baked cakes of dough, and offered them instead.
The Bataks of Sumatra offer either a red horse or a buffalo as a public sacrifice to purify the land and obtain the favour of the gods.
The Oraons or Uraons of Chota Nagpur worship a goddess called Anna Kuari, who can give good crops and make a man rich, but to induce her to do so it is necessary to offer human sacrifices.
We herewith offer you food, inao, wine, and cakes; take them to your parent, and he will be very pleased.
Then they offer the dead beast a repast of rice and wild potatoes, and having spoken to him in terms of pity and thanked him for what he has done and suffered, they cut off his head and paws and keep them as sacred things.
Similarly, a stone with little discs upon it is good to bring in money; and if a man found a large stone with a number of small ones under it, like a sow among her litter, he was sure that to offer money upon it would bring him pigs.
We are about to offer you a good dinner, the best you have ever eaten among us, and we will all weep for you together.
Then they call together all the spirits of the wood, offer them the little house with its contents, and beseech them to quit the spot.
Also they offer it sacrifices, but these sacrifices are proportioned to the size and strength of the animal.
Some even put the weevil under a stone in the field and offer corn to it.
At the same time they offer meat on a wooden platter to the dead beast, saying, "Eat, friend.
To which offer he nevertheless acceded after some grumbling; and the runners of the borrowed skates were fastened underneath the sled by Mr. Holt's own hands and hammer.
I have no conjecture to offer regarding the age or nature of this very remarkable rock.
We have, therefore, examined with no common interest the work before us, for it will be strange indeed, if a man who can act so skilfully as Mr. Sanders should be unable to offer advice of corresponding value.
The suggestions which I have to offer to the reader, will be best understood when I have detailed all the facts upon which they are founded.
I shall offer them with that sincerity which ought to characterize a man of candour; and with the freedom which may be used in giving useful information, without incurring the imputation of presumption.
He was not well pleased that I should offer to go before the time he had appointed, and told me, that he could not consent to our going without a guard, for fear some accident should befall us, and draw a reflection upon him.
It was next proposed to offer a monopoly of certain enumerated articles; but the unequal operation of this measure gave to the proposition a speedy negative.
The success of this intrepid enterprise diffused the more joy throughout America, because it was supposed to secure the liberation of General Lee, by enabling General Washington to offer an officer of equal rank in exchange for him.
Availing himself of the offermade by the Indians to serve him as guides, he proceeded through a dark and rainy night to the French encampment, which he completely surrounded.
And I had nothing to offer them, absolutely nothing bigger than a small red-spinner from the Test.
He could not offer himself to be a legalised murderer, for that was how his country's call appealed to him.
No one could offer a more deadly insult than she had offered Bob.
He did not offer to shake hands, but went to the bell push.
It was enough for them to know that England was in danger; for them, forgetful of everything else, to offer their lives, if need be, for the land of their birth.
And all the time he would have given anything to be able to offer himself for the front.
For days she had been hoping that he would see it his duty to offer himself to his country, and yet all the time dreading the thought of parting from him.
Galactic will offer satisfactory items in exchange, as well as a solution to Terra's problems.
So ye can tak' ma offer or a dashed guid hammerin' when the first chance comes.
Christina had no notion of accepting theoffer until, an hour or two later, the idea struck her that it would be fun to give a little tea party for Macgregor and Willie Thomson.
This offer will challenge the attention and consideration, and afterwards the gratitude of every living person who desires better health or who suffers pains, ills, and diseases which have defied the medical world and grown worse with age.
As usual, we offer a good premium, (one that is well worth working for,) to the club raiser for every subscriber he or she sends us.
We offer bulbs for blooming at once, and seed which soon makes flowering plants.
The offer was accepted and was soon followed by another to Major Hotaling of a position in Central America in connection with a railroad project then undergoing development in that country.
I offerno apology for its crudities, imperfections or omissions.
And did the woman really seem doubtful as to whether she should accept your offer or not?
His first intention was to offer himself as a common sailor or ship's carpenter to the Hudson Bay Company, in order to procure a passage; but the brethren advised him rather to try and get to Labrador by the way of Newfoundland.
The subject is an important one, and it is of consequence, that you give it an early attention, while the offer is made you.
The offer of the commissioners to establish a boundary line that would include the settlements already made north of the Ohio, they regarded as reasonable, and that farther concessions ought not to be required.
He drank hard cider, which was the strongest drink I could conscientiouslyoffer him, so I told him.
Why do you offer such a sacrifice, for so it is considered?
And as the result, about six hundred warriors, mostly from the Seneca nation, were in readiness to offer their services, at the opening of the present campaign.
Sir, I beg to offer you my thanks for the confidence you have shown me by your polite letter, and the accompanying music.
Had it not been for this last piece of intelligence, I would have written to you instantly, to offer you both my congratulations, and to express my most heartfelt joy.
I have the second part now nearly all in my head, up to the passage where they take Paul for Jupiter, and wish to offer sacrifices to him, for which some five choruses must be found, but as yet I have not the faintest conception what .
As I could not offer them any payment for this, which they would have taken highly amiss, I gave them a souper of roast veal and bread-and-butter, and let them get as tipsy as they could desire.
I offer you a thousand thanks for your good wishes, and beg you not to be uneasy on either of these points.
I had thought of asking you for it, and now you offer it to me.
The salary they offer is certainly handsome and liberal, but if they in return expect me to accept an unlimited obligation to work, that also would be a change in their proposals, and no compensation to me.
In answer to the Professor’s offer to write, or to cause to be written, something in his musical paper with regard to ‘Antigone.
The offer that my husband made to me was not the first by any means.
It's quite true I didn't snap at the first offer that was made to me.
Were there not others, only waiting for her to declare herself unfettered, to offer her so much more than this one poor man could give?
No, Philip, you have scorned me twice; once when you refused my kiss, ten years ago, and again when you refused my offer in my letter.
Had you anything better to offer Patricia, than what my words picture?
Lamien can scarcely offer any counter attractions, as the Countess, to Baby, as Leonie.
I might possibly offer to change some of the locally interesting ones for a proustite, but I can't afford any more cash just now.
I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting some of the new Members in each House, but I hope that opportunity will offer itself in the near future.
They offer to lead us back round the same old corner into the same old dreary street.
We stand on our historic offer to take counsel with all other nations of the world to the end that aggression among them be terminated, that the race of armaments cease and that commerce be renewed.
