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Beloved and tender one! I am waiting." Far in the distance, the green rockets soared skyward, the same as those we used to send up over the river Oka. Then the gargantuan fingers of a searchlight began to sweep the area, my uniform appeared white in its gleam, and all at once a shell fell by the crosses. I had been observed, I had become a target. The bullets fell zip-zip-zip into the earthworks.
Only recollect that I shall always be ready to send you any assistance when required." "I have been thinking, Colonel Forster, that, as we have no horses at present, if you have any rockets, they might be useful in such a case. At the distance we are from you a rocket would be seen immediately if fired at night, and I promise you, that it shall not be fired without great necessity."
"You might try for the ferry service," said Sally uneasily. "I will," said Joe grimly, "but I won't be hoping too much. After all, there are astronomers and physics sharks and such things, who'll be glad to learn to run rockets in order to practice their specialties out of atmosphere." Sally said mournfully: "I can't seem to say anything to make you feel better!" "But you do," said Joe.
"Stand by to reduce thrust to one-quarter space speed, Astro. Stand by forward nose braking rockets." "Right," replied Astro. "Hey, Roger!" yelled Tom. "How far are we from the surface?" "Estimated distance to touchdown is two hundred thousand feet," answered Roger crisply. "Reduce thrust to minimum, Astro," barked Tom, his eyes watching every dial and meter on the control board.
The gentlemen who were near him were talking about the rockets the same rockets that Rollo had seen when he went back to the stern of the ship to look out at the sea, on the day of the storm.
The skipper laughed as he went down again to get the rockets and blue lights which were kept in a spare cabin aft for safety. "He's a rum chap, that little beggar," he observed to Mr Fosset, who had been forward to set the look-out men on the forecastle and had returned to the bridge. "I think if you told him he was the laziest loafer that ever ate lobscouse, he couldn't help saying `Quite so!"
Evenings, she read to him newspaper accounts of his fellow-soldiers, and the day of the peace, for which he had paid so terribly, she rolled his bed, alone, with a great tugging and straining, to the open window, where the wind from the river could blow in against him and steamboat whistles shoot up like rockets. She was so inexpressibly glad for the peace day.
Kress, in the ball, could pass through the sub-arctic cold of the stratosphere if necessity demanded. The ball, if it struck the ocean, would preserve him for a great length of time. It was even equipped with rockets. This plane was revolutionary. It was, to begin with, carrying a vast load. Kress was taking every conceivable kind of instrument he fancied he might need.
Coloured rockets sailed upwards from the admiral when he changed his mind and his course, and then the city of mobile streets altered its plan, and rewove its constellation. At midnight white flares burned forward on all the boats. The trawls were to be hauled. Our steam-winch began to bang its cogs in the heavy work of lifting the net. All hands assembled to see what would be our luck.
When the charge had to be made the roar of guns made speaking quite impossible, so directions were given by sending up rockets. When the rockets appeared, not a single man delayed an instant in making the attack.
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