He rushed for the electric switches, followed by his companions, while the Comet forged slowly ahead through the rain of fire, the sparks from the rockets shooting all about her.
The airship shot forward through the darkness shrouded in gloom--no, not completely, for the great search light still glowed, and that offered a mark for the hissing rockets and aerial bombs.
Masquers moved among the trees, orchestras discoursed the latest airs, rockets soared into the sky.
Ordinary squibs and crackers are also continuously ignited, while now and then one of the sky rockets discharged in flights from a procession, elects to take a horizontal course, and hurtles head-high down the crowded street.
I make those little rockets myself, and you can carry them in your pocket.
Illustration: Away they flew like rockets over the hard and level ground, the breeze raising their hats as they dashed along.
Away they flew like rockets over the hard and level ground, the breeze raising their hats as they dashed along.
Lizard with rockets and her forecastle gun, until the rocket-stand was shot away, and the gun could no longer be elevated sufficiently to bear on the enemy.
At two her crew went to quarters; and at forty minutes past two, having before fired a few shot, her three guns and rockets were got into full play.
Sailors being always ready for an expedition afloat or ashore, the demand was gladly complied with, and a brigade with rockets and gatling guns was at once organised.
A long pole, with the British flag made fast to it, had been prepared, on the elevation of which the first discharge of rockets was to take place.
Behind this the land rising, there was consequently a large natural trench; here the rockets might be placed in comparative safety.
The next order was for the Naval Brigade to advance to a knoll which commanded the plateau, and to open fire with their rockets upon the crowd of advancing enemies.
The sailors at once got the gatlings and rockets to work, and so great was their effect that the rush of the Zulus was checked, and they were unable to carry out their favourite tactics of coming to close quarters.
This was quickly done, and Lieutenant Marshall threw some rockets with beautiful effect, setting fire to several houses, among which, to the satisfaction of all, was that of the Prime Minister Tappis.
A glass of grog, with some pork and biscuits, set them to rights again; and without delay they planted the rocket-stands, pointing them so that the rockets might just clear the top of the batteries.
No fear but what we can do that, with this land breeze; after which, a few rockets burned will tell us where to find le Feu-Follet.
As they drew near the obstructions two rockets were thrown up by the enemy, whose fire opened briskly; but the masts being out, it was not easy to distinguish the vessels from the hulks.
At eleven, as they drew near the batteries, the lowest of which the Hartford had already passed, the enemy threw up rockets and opened their fire.
Providentially the shooting rockets headed into the air, and to the rear.
The rockets shot out of the box amidships with a shower of sparks.
Might as well have all the rockets and such up there on the hill.
So Giovanni and the children crowded into the shabby gondola and rowed with thousands of others up and down, watching the rockets soaring into the sky and bursting into myriads of dazzling stars as they fell into the water below.
We had reached the further wood; the moonlight fell away from us and the shadows shifted and trembled under the reflection of rockets and a projector that swung lazily and unsteadily, like something nodding in its sleep.
The rockets were gold and green, sometimes as it seemed ringed with fire, sometimes cold like dead moons, sometimes sparkling and quivering like great stars.
A thousand rockets rose, soaring, in streams of light into the dark sky; the fields that had been vapour ran now with light.
Instead of guns he had fixed about one hundred rockets on long sticks, disposed in the garden.
The allusion here to a telegraphic communication is likewise sufficiently evident; though it is obvious that, for night signals, it will become necessary to substitute rockets or reflecting lamps for the painted boards.
The rockets were all connected by an iron wire, and the same spark produced a spontaneous explosion.
Signal rocketsrose from every portion and part of our lines and also from the enemy lines.
At night, as in a furious thunderstorm, the darkness was pierced with the unintermittent flashes of the guns, while sickly green rockets shed a ghastly light over the fighting lines.
The first rockets were slowly going up in the dark sky, where bright-colored balloons shone like new stars.
I further propose magnificent fireworks; not those little rocketsand crackers that amuse nobody but children and old maids, but great bombs, colossal rockets.
In spite of a slight mist it promised to be a fine evening, and the children looked anxiously up at the sky, hoping it would be clear enough to show off the rockets to advantage.
They were just like the rockets at Weewillo Park that spit out long snakes of gold fire like a broom when they bust.
It was the first time since we been in the war that we found out what a lot of those rockets were.
The first three or four rockets fired by the enemy were much above the heads of Stansburg's line; but the rockets having taken a more horizontal direction, an universal flight of the centre and left of this brigade was the consequence.
Reaching the pack in which the sky-rockets were, he tore it open and drew out one of them.
The rockets rushed heavenward and descended in stars, the Roman candles tossed their fiery balls into the darkness, the Catherine wheels sparkled and whirled, the crackers cracked, and the squibs banged.
Noting her rapid approach to the Goodwins, on which an awful sea was running, and the helpless and dishevelled condition of the vessel, the Gull lightship fired guns and rockets at intervals of five minutes.
This, however, was owing to the distressed vessel having exhausted her stock of rockets and torches.
Two signal rockets were thrown up from our ship, but they were probably not seen, as we obtained no response.
Gibson states that he went down to the chart room and told the master; that the master asked him if all the rockets were white, and also asked him the time.
Mr. Stone had told him he had seen rockets in the middle watch.
He fired rockets in answer to the signals he saw from Boxall's boat.
Gill, the donkey man, states that he saw two rockets fired from the ship which he had been observing, and about 1.
Mr. Stone states that he saw the last of the rockets fired at about 1.
He also is said by Gibson to have remarked, "A ship is not going to fire rockets at sea for nothing;" and admits himself that he may possibly have used that expression.
Mr. Stone again called up the master by voice pipe and told him that the ship from which he had seen the rockets come had disappeared bearing SW.
Mr. Stone reported to the captain by voice pipe, that he had seen five white rockets from the direction of the steamer.
The evidence from the Californian speaks of eight rockets having been seen between 12.
The rockets sent up from the Titanic were distress signals.
He got no reply, but the vessel fired three more white rockets; these rocketswere also seen by Mr. Stone.
Mr. Stone called to the master that the ship from which he had seen the rockets had disappeared.
It was suggested that the rockets seen by the Californian were from some other ship, not the Titanic.
The time over which the rockets from the Titanic were sent up was from about 12.
I felt somethin' drop on the bridge of my nose, and see a hull nest of sky rockets all at onct; but I only keeled for the shake of a tail, and then I piled in like a mad buffalo with the cholic.
Down went Captain Munchausen singing inverted psalms, with a whole nest of rockets exploding in his brain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rockets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
