He was experiencing now a similar sequence of sentiments in noting the wild-eyed eagerness with which the captured raider took obvious heed of every minor point of worthiness that might mask the true character of his entertainers.
The horses, hitherto held to the sober gait of funeral travel, were now put to a speedy trot, unmindful of whatever impression of flight the pace might give to the revenue-raider in pursuit.
They will hev time ter git ter the cross-roads with the whisky on' back little arter midnight, special' ez we-uns hev got the raider that spied out the job hyar fast by the leg.
Ye will let that t'other revenue-raider ye seen into the secret o' the bresh whisky in our wagon ef ye air viewed about whenst 'Gene hev spread the report that ye air dead.
The raider is heavily armed and her officers are brave men.
Not a single ship ever got a message into the air because the raider jammed every one of them.
Yarrowdale which had been cruising around in the wake of the raider ever since she was captured.
Snapped up by the German raider in mid-ocean, they cruised around for days while the commerce destroyer was gathering in further prizes.
One was continually listening to pick up messages and one was ready to "jam the air" should any vessel the raider was pursuing attempt to send out a message.
I had heard the raider was equipped with both coal and oil burning engines, so I managed to wander into the engine room to try to see how they were arranged while I was out for an airing one day.
Nevertheless we neutrals were allowed a great deal of freedom, and I want to say that what I did discover showed me that theraider was about as cleverly arranged a ship as I have ever seen.
One of the officers from the Voltaire, already taken and sunk, told me that afterward while the Germans were chasing us a sailor went below and informed the prisoners that the raider was overhauling the White Star steamship Georgic.
McKim, an American veterinarian, was aboard the White Star liner Georgic, in charge of twelve hundred horses for the Allies, when she was sunk by the German raider Moewe during its romantic exploits.
Many of the men who had been on the raider for a long time were utterly despondent.
Some of my horsemen have nothing but shirt and trousers, even their socks having been left behind because they were working on the main deck which was awash when the raider fired into us.
The Black Raider For a stunned moment they were helpless as they struggled to pick themselves up.
There had been two dozen men on the raider ship; there had been no question, even from the start, that they would succeed in boarding the orbit-ship and taking its occupants prisoners.
It struck the Raider across the head, felled him as if by a shot, and his pursuers then beat him to death.
Among them were several who had no equals in physical strength and courage in any of the Raider chiefs.
Then the Raider center launched itself forward against ours, and grappled savagely with the leading Regulators.
He seemed to have known from the first that the Raider would run that way.
I shall ask that we be allowed to carry two five-hundred pound bombs and be commissioned to search for the merciless sea raider that sank that shipload of children.
Dave tried to imagine the wild commotion and the frenzied preparation on board that raider at that moment.
Victims of the raider who were landed at Pernambuco, Brazil, January 18 stated their belief that she was the steamship Moewe, notorious as a raider early in the war, but later reported docked in the Kiel Canal.
With the Raider sunk, she could quite well run in and land her crew on the Germans' beach; they 'd get here quicker then than if they landed at a spot we don't know the way from.
The Raider 's back in the cove, Grinson,' he said.
There had not been time for the Raider to reach the cove and land her crew, therefore the attackers must be relatively few in number.
An hour or two earlier Trentham would have rejoiced to know that the Raider was departing.
The Raider was getting up steam; the stores were being methodically hoisted and stowed; before very long the vessel would disappear round the horn of the cove, and he could only watch her impotently.
If we can gain the people's confidence they may help us in the end--especially if the Raider clears off, and I guess it won't remain in these waters for ever.
As a seaman he knew what a great expenditure of coal was involved in keeping the Raider with steam up, even though the fires were banked.
Stealing up through the night she 's a good chance of escaping notice, and unless the Raider makes an early morning trip you 'll get away without trouble.
Within a few short hours Hoole, unless baulked by ill-luck, would guide a British vessel to the cove, and the Raider would meet a well-deserved fate.
The Raider was anchored almost in the same position as when he had last seen her; smoke was pouring from her funnel.
In shape she resembled the raider which had sunk the Berenisa a few weeks before, but she had had a new coat of paint.
He clenched his fist, and shook it in the direction where he supposed the Raider to lie.
The Raider can't rely on filling her bunkers from captures, apparently, or they wouldn't go to all this trouble.
Now we will learn how the German commerce raider Cap Trafalgar was sent to her doom.
Early in September we first heard of the famous German raider the Emden.
I don't for a minute think Mowbray would traffic in slaves, but of course he's the biggest ivory raider in the game.
He's the ivory raiderof them all," nodded Schoverling, "and the biggest man in the club here.
By the beginning of December, 1914, the German raider was in the South Atlantic, and while there heard wireless messages exchanged between the ships of the British fleet that took part in the battle off the Falkland Islands.
But when the latter was defeated off the Falkland Islands, she resumed operations as a raider of commerce.
When he put on all speed in an attempt to get away from theraider her guns opened on his ship with shrapnel, badly riddling it.
Not till the Appam arrived in the Virginia harbor was it positively known that a raider had eluded the allied navies.
Whether the raider actually sunk all of the vessels accredited to her is a question that probably never will be answered.
There she was comparatively safe from pursuit, and so skillfully were her operations carried on that it was many weeks before the fact became known that a raider actually was abroad.
By refusing to heed the signals of distant vessels, which she had a good chance of outdistancing in a race, and showing every courtesy to those close at hand, the raider made her escape.
They bayoneted a raider under the engine and pinned another to the wall.
He had been captured by United States troops in Kansas as a guerrilla raider and was imprisoned first at Lecompton and then at Tecumseh.
The gold and securities on board are reason for his passage; he is with us as our official witness, should the activity of an enemy raider compel us to throw the millions overboard.
They were decoys, shown for the purpose of putting a raider off the scent, and up to a certain point had justified their existence.
She might be a Hun raider in disguise, with a heavy armament concealed behind hinged bulwarks.
She was, too, the only German raider which had extended her operations beyond the Atlantic.
The attempt to escape had been left too late; it should have been made immediately the smoke of the raider was seen.
At last the raidergot under way and began to bear down on us.
The two ships lashed together would certainly have presented a strange scene, and could have meant only one thing--a raider and her prize.
This, we felt, would bring at least a little comfort to our relatives, who might conclude we were on the raider and not hopelessly lost, as they must have feared.
Immediately thoughts of a raider sprang to my mind, though I did not know one was out.
The two steamers had stopped; we did not know what was happening on board either of them, but saw the raider's motor launch going between the raider and her prize, picking up some of the men who had fallen into the sea when the boat capsized.
On her recapture by the Germans, she was equipped as a raider and mine-layer, and sent off on an expedition by herself.
As we were still steaming and had not even yet obeyed the order to stop, the raider opened fire on us in dead earnest, firing a broadside.
The passengers now went over to the starboard side, as apparently no more boats were being lowered from the port side, and we did not know whether the raider would start firing again.
For it must have been known that a raider was out in those waters, as the disappearance of the Hitachi could only have been due to the presence of one.
More than a single raider had accounted to her steady nerves and cool aim for his outlawry; more than a single pony raced, riderless, in the wake of the charging horde.
Not for an instant had the raider exposed a square inch of his body, and Werper dared not fire his one remaining shot unless every chance of a successful hit was in his favor.
He investigated whatever his eyes discovered, nor did those keen organs overlook a single article within the habitation of the raider chief; but no pouch or pretty pebbles rewarded his thoroughness.
The Belgian saw the massive head turn in the direction of the raider and his heart all but ceased its beating as he awaited the result of this interruption.
To the sleeping rugs of the dead raider he drew the corpse, then he fumbled about in the darkness until he had found Mohammed Beyd's revolver.
From that instant till the guns ceased to roar, seventy or eighty seconds later, the shells burst, lacing the air with golden glimmers, and meshed the flying raider in a fiery net.
Empty of bombs and with half of its fuel consumed, the raider was at the zenith of its flight, and yet the guns were ranging it with ease.
But no other raider was in sight; there was no other "nodal centre" of gun-fire and searchlights.
By that time the leading raider had gained a like distance uphill and, peeping, Bull watched the thin file of animals wriggling like a slow black snake up the yellow trail.
As, propping himself on his elbow, Gordon drew a bead on the leading raidershe covered her eyes with her hands.
Just as Bull had foreseen, a raider sandwiched in at intervals to keep them moving.
About fifteen passed him before the head of the firstraider showed below.
The raider gained a little during the next hour and fired several shots.
The raider had a black funnel, and was no doubt the ship he had seen steering for Adexe.
But you surely don't mean to let the raider do what she likes?
They're taking rather troublesome precautions in the British ports since the commerce-raider got to work.
Nothing could be done until morning, but as day broke the raider reappeared and had fired a shot across the reef when a gunboat belonging to the state in whose territorial waters the steamer lay came upon the scene.
For example, you do not show how the raider got coal and information from the Adexe Company.
She would probably steam first to the port farthest off and then work backward, and the sailing list was meant to put the raider off the track.
A raider must have coal and it's not easy to get upon this coast," he resumed.
Late in July, 1916, an item in the shipping news mentioned a Swedish sailing vessel, Balmen, Rio de Janeiro to Barcelona, sunk by a German raider sometime in June.
Some one yelled back to those who had not yet reached the level of the deck: "It's the raider, the German raider Geier!
The raider was flying low and the distinguishing marks of the hospital were plainly apparent.
Still another class, mostly made up from the old Raider crowd, enlisted from natural depravity.
On one occasion one hundred or more of the raider crowd who had galvanized, were stopped for a few hours in some little Town, on their way to the front.
Half a dozen times a day or oftener merely by turning their faces upward they might see the hostile raider being harried back to its hangar by defending cannon or by French planes or by both at once.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raider" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
