rhine-mouth

Updated: July 26, 2025

All these things, I say, stretched below. "But we noticed them only incidentally because of an unusual sight that evening had to show. Five war aeroplanes that had long slumbered useless in the distant arsenals of the Rhine-mouth were manoeuvring now in the eastward sky. Gresham had astonished the world by producing them and others, and sending them to circle here and there.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories