A rocket goes up in der sky-- Der sthick vos hit you in der eye!
Then, as the craft came closer, they saw a rocket shoot up in the air, followed by a Roman candle.
Poor Jack met us at the rocket landing almost bawling, Sanderson had given him such a gloomy picture of what Brightside was like.
Finally, on the third day, McIvers blew in on a freight rocketfrom Venus.
Meteorological apparatus for use with the Goddard rocket has been planned by Mr. S.
A blinding flash and deafening crash were followed by the whiz of the rocket as it sprang with a magnificent curve far away into the surrounding darkness.
The report of the gun could not be heard, owing to the gale carrying the sound to leeward, but the bright line of the rocket was distinctly visible.
Another was therefore sent up, but it had scarcely cut its bright line across the sky when the answering signal was observed--a rocket from Ramsgate pier!
By this time the gun was charged and the rocket in position.
They found Dick Moy and Jack Shales already actively engaged--the one loading the lee gun, the other adjusting a rocket to its stick.
He ran down himself for a rocket as he spoke, and Jerry ran to the cabin for the red-hot poker, which had been heating for some time past in readiness for such an event.
The third gun thundered forth and shook the floating light from stem to stern, but the rocket struck the rigging and made a low wavering flight.
In less than five minutes the gun and rocket were fired again.
Santos was crouched over the rocket launcher, his space gloves working rapidly as he kept the rockets pointed at the enemy.
When electric current fired the rocket head, the thorium carrying the plutonium wedge would be driven forward to meet the wedge in the back.
Santos followed a second later and the crippled rocket twisted wildly under the two Planeteers.
Trudeau had the rocket launcher and the remaining rockets.
The Terra rocket was blasting off in five minutes, and they were due to be on it.
If sunlight hits those fuel tanks or the tubes of rocket fuel, they’ll explode!
O’Brine didn’t know the cruiser was waiting to ambush him, so the rocket we fired made him think the Connies had taken us over.
He rammed the controls full ahead and the dying rocket cut space, curving slowly as flaming fuel spurted from the ruptured tanks.
He had figures on the amount of thrust given by the kind of rocket fuel in the tubes.
The object was a portable rocket launcher designed to fire light attack rockets.
The legs held a movable cradle in which the rocket racks were placed.
The rocket flashed away, its trail dwindling as it sped toward the great bulk above.
That was to use the tubes of rocket fuel left over from correcting the course.
He slid the thorium-plutonium block into the tube, took a rocket head from Santos and used it to push the block in farther.
Kemp, we’ll want the tube just a fraction of an inch wider than a rocket head.
In September, when the moon was red and full, and the sea glassy, he announced a series of nocturnal "Rocket Fêtes.
Von Schlichten peered into his all-armament sight, his foot on the machine-gun pedal and his fingers on the rocket buttons.
Combat-cars and air jeeps were diving in to shell and rocket and machine-gun streets and buildings.
They found the reason for the colony and the rocket landing field and the shack.
He hurried a little, because the men in the rocket were shaky and might not practice patience.
A tiny silver rocket to the westward poured out monstrous masses of vapor.
At the same instant I saw him raise his hand, and at the signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of “Fire!
I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.
There was a wild rush, a mad stampede of feet, a horrible screech of hissing metal, and a rocket of iron shot upward toward the black roof, bursting and falling in a burning shower.
The rocket of iron is already cold; dull, inert, fireless, the black fragments lie upon the floor whereon they lately rained their red revenge.
And others should see a rocket and a ruin, and feel the Vengeance of Beaten Iron, before the mist comes and swallows all.
There's another rocket from Fort Johnson; and it is answered from Fort Moultrie.
A signal rocket from one of the batteries, now and then.
There was a signal rocket from one of the forts, and the young men who were dancing here left their partners standing on the floor to return to the batteries--as if it were the night before another Waterloo.
There was a noise like the breaking of a mighty rocketin the sky.
At the slip by the Rocket House he went down to the beach and searched among the shingle until he found a stone like a dumb-bell, large at the ends and narrow in the middle.
The sound rocket was fired as he pushed through the town.
While she stood in the shadow of the prisoners' yard listening to Philip's voice, and held by it as by a spell, there was a low hiss and then a sort of white silence, as when a rocket breaks in the air.
Suddenly a rocketsoared skywards, barely a mile on the scout's brow.
High above the Independencia the red glare of an exploded rocket transformed the surface of the surrounding sea into a blaze of dazzling light.
Acknowledge," ordered the captain, shortly; and from the Cerberus an answeringrocket was sent up.
Lying prone behind the casing of a skylight he waited till another rocket had been fired, then, mingling boldly with the pirate crew, made good use of his eyes.
He raised his arms above his head, and shot up like a rocket towards the lofty dome, which split asunder to let him pass.
If you will carry off a man from under the Lord Mayor's very nose, and shoot up through the roof like a rocket with him, you can't expect to escape some notice.
Another rocket trailed its golden parabola along the sky, and dropped with stars; there was an ineffably sweet strain from the orchestra; the illuminated oaks tossed silver and golden boughs in a gust of fragrant wind.
Another rocketshot up, and the people cried out, and watched the shower of stars with breathless enjoyment.
Another rocket described a wonderful golden curve of grace, then a red light lit all the watching people.
Then a rocket shot high in the air with a splendid curve, and there was a sea of faces watching with speechless admiration the dropping stars of violet and gold and rose.
Landing City, with its wide, paved streets and modern buildings, the neatly laid-out farms and the modern rocket port.
There were still ten minutes or so to go before the rocket landed, but he caught himself straining his sight at the blue sky, trying to see a telltale flicker of exhaust flame.
He estimated that even with the refusal of their yllumphs to help beach the raft, they still had a good two hours before the rocket put down at Landing City.
The modern rocket port was a scorched expanse of dirty ground, with a rusting shed at one end that she guessed was the office.
Old Grundy at the rocket office, who should know about these things if anybody did, seemed disturbingly lacking on definite information, though he had hinted broadly enough.
The battered shack that served as rocket port office and headquarters for the colonial office on Midplanet loomed up in front of them.
Under cover of darkness, I sneaked out, and was almost beside the body, when a flare rocket went up.
Twice a rocket went up, and I had to lie still for minutes with my ghastly companion.
After a minute of swerves and shoving, A line like a half-moon started moving, Then Rocket and Soyland leaped to stride, To be pulled up short and wheeled to side.
As Charles neared the water, the Rocketran out By jumping the railings and kicking a clout Of rotten white woodwork to startle the trout.
Until the planes could be brought into action the "Golden Hind" was much in the nature of a rocket soaring obliquely under the influence of a self-contained impulsive charge.
By now, three small jet boats and two rocket scouts had blasted off from Deimos, bringing emergency rescue equipment.
There were the usual eager spectators too, thousands from the large cities on Mars who had taken the ferry rocket up to the spaceport to see the ships come in for refueling.
With that hot rocket in this race," said Astro, "the others will have to fight for second and third place.
In the distance, they could hear the muffled roar of rocket motors as the three finalists tuned up their ships, preparing for the greatest space race in history.
And he was happy at having two unit mates like Roger Manning and Astro to depend on when he was out in space, commanding one of the finest ships ever built, the powerful rocket cruiser Polaris.
Three heavy cruisers and a rocket destroyer, sir," replied the voice across the gulf of space.
