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But at last Forsythe fixed something in the glass, gazing long and intently at a faint spot appearing to the northwest; and Denman, following suit with the binoculars, saw what he was looking at a huge bulk coming out of the haze carrying one short mast and five funnels.
But the commander, Captain Allain Launay, mustered his men, ordered a salute to Guynemer, made a speech to his command, and said: "We shall now fire a volley in honor of Sergeant Guynemer." The salvo demolished a small house where some Boches had taken refuge. Through the binoculars they could be seen to scatter when the first shell struck their shelter.
If Perk actually believed in his remedy that was half the battle and no other person's business whatsoever. Looking out to sea he could still find that lone beacon, even without the aid of his binoculars.
Suddenly he snatched the binoculars from the man beside him and turned them on the aeroplane. He almost uttered a cry of triumph as the craft swung into his field of vision. There was something the matter with her. She was no longer rushing straight ahead.
If you could have seen your own face as you peeked through those glasses " Peggy stuffed the binoculars into her brother's brown hands. "Here, look for yourself," she ordered. Her voice was so imperious that Roy obeyed immediately. An instant later his sister's expression of dumfounded amazement was mirrored on his own straightforward, good-looking countenance.
They had slipped away quietly from the piers without attracting undue attention, and while they moved to the location where they anchored for the night, not a soldier's uniform could have been detected from shore even after the most scrutinizing search with the best binoculars obtainable. The departure was made without a word of warning and not a fond good-bye.
Although the binoculars had forewarned them of this, the adventurers bunched together on the deck with a qualmish feeling and began talking in low tones, as men converse in the presence of mystery, or death. "We'll search her first," directed Madden, in a tone he tried to make natural. "Yes," agreed Greer, "and, men, keep a sharp eye out for lunatics. Don't let anything jump on you "
He had seen her among the planters of the district and was certain that she loved none of them. Only Chunerbutty was left; it must indeed be he. He shut up his binoculars and climbed down the rocky pinnacle on which he had been perched, and went to eat a cheerless meal where Badshah grazed a thousand feet below.
We are only making bearings, but when the war was on, women made rifles and cartridges and shells, cameras and lenses, telescopes, binoculars and aeroplanes. I can't begin to tell you the things they made every part from the tiniest screws as big as the end of this pin to rough castings.
So elaborate and skilful were the enemy defences that the powerful lenses failed to detect any trace of the rifle pits and sand-bagged parapets of the trenches. Nor were any troops visible. The top of the table-land looked as deserted as an unexplored land in the Polar regions. Wilmshurst lowered his binoculars.
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