"Air-ship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... another so fast that their precise order becomes of small moment. When I tell you that the opening chapters of this remarkable nightmare—The Gods of Mars (METHUEN)—contain monsters with one white eye and mouths in their hands, flying pirates, an air-ship that sinks down a volcano, an ageless witch who—but why continue? The publishers call these happenings "bold;" but this is a pitiful understatement. Really they are of a character to make the wildest imaginings of JULES VERNE, friend ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 21, 1920 • Various
... machines was incessant but only partially successful. No air-ship had thus far been devised which could undertake a definite voyage of length with any certainty of reaching its destination. The best feat yet was that of the air-ship Arrow, which, October 25, 1904, at ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews |
