"Airman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that British airman, over the border, sheer over No Man's Land and the heads of the enemy and the mysterious land behind, snatching the secrets that the enemy would conceal. Either he had defeated the German airmen who would have stopped his going, or they had not dared to try. Who knows what he had done? ...
— Tales of War • Lord Dunsany
... which many of the German submarines had been putting out at Zeebrugge, with aircraft. On the 1st of April, 1915, the British Government's press bureau announced that bombs had been dropped, with unknown success, on two German submarines lying there, and that on the same day a British airman had flown over Hoboken and had seen submarines ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... though he were carved of stone. Once in a while his eyes would fall from the road to the instrument-board. Except for that regular movement, he gave no sign of life. As for Berry, sunk, papoose-like, in the chauffeur's cockpit in rear, I hoped that his airman's cap would stand ...
— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates
... spoke when he did, for another burst of firing came. The soldiers were sending random volleys after the fleeing airman, in hopes of injuring his machinery ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... noted all this when there came a sudden tug at the Wondership as if a titanic hand had reached up from below and grasped her. She pitched wildly and, but for Jack's skill as an airman, there might have been a serious accident. But he brought the big craft under control ...
— The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone • Richard Bonner
... "The airman swung lightly into his seat; a final word or two with his commanding officer and he flung over the levers and gave a sharp ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 12, 1919 • Various
... done promised Boomerang his airman, an' he won't do nothin' till he has it. Ef I started him back t' town now he would jest lay down in de road. I'll take de answer back ...
— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton |
