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"Aviator" Quotes from Famous Books

... The aviator met her astonished glance with one of laughing deference even as she marveled at his genial air of ...

— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple

... actual battle in the clouds. Soldiers, scribbling their letters in the trenches, have been fascinated by the sudden appearance at dusk of a hostile aeroplane, and have gazed with pleasurable agitation as out of the dim, mysterious distance a British aviator shot up in pursuit. ...

— Tommy Atkins at War - As Told in His Own Letters • James Alexander Kilpatrick

... little did we know of aeroplanes then, that the General was persuaded by his brigade-major to step back into shelter from the falling bits, and we all stared anxiously skywards, expecting every moment that our devoted aviator ...

— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson

... suffered the most cruel anxiety of mind. Of that, on my return to London from Brussels, I was given an illustration. I had written to The Daily Chronicle telling where in Belgium I had seen a wrecked British airship, and beside it the grave of the aviator. I gave the information in order that the family of the dead officer might find the grave and bring the body home. The morning the letter was published an elderly gentleman, a retired officer of the navy, called at my rooms. His son, ...

— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis

... enchanted journey, from the sudden dumbness with which the commonplace words would die away upon his lips. Well for him that his lesser self kept firm hold upon the wheel or maybe a few broken spars, tossing upon the waves, would have been all that was left to tell of a promising young aviator who, on a summer night of June, had thought he ...

— Malvina of Brittany • Jerome K. Jerome

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