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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Oh, when we're ordered overseas, I'll show them," he thought ardently, and picturing to himself long movie reels of heroism he went off to sleep. A sharp voice beside his cot woke him with a jerk. "Get up, you." The white beam of a pocket searchlight was glaring in the face of the man next to him. "The O. D." said Fuselli to himself. "Get up, you," came the sharp voice again.
He unlocked the cell door, after a cautious trying of half a dozen keys. Apparently his scruples returned again; he stood irresolute in the cell doorway, turning the searchlight on its yet unawakened occupant. Peter swooped down from behind.
Their line of march lay the length of a long ridge through enemy country, and on this ridge one of the destroyers protecting the flank chose this inopportune moment to cast her attention and her searchlight.
A continuous aeroplane and searchlight barrage with night landing grounds was gradually formed between Dover and the Forth; the wireless signals employed to assist Zeppelins in finding their way were intercepted, thus enabling our rapidly improving fighting machines to pick up and attack raiding airships; and the constant attacks to which airship sheds were exposed in Belgium, caused their withdrawal to positions further inland and increased their distance from England.
As the weighty import of the query slowly dawned on Beard's consciousness, his face contracted until it took on the expression of one whose mental vision is gradually clearing; before whose dazed mind certain images are again taking compact shape, revealing themselves out of the surrounding darkness, sharply cut like figures illumined by the long-stretching rays of a powerful searchlight.
"I guess these fellows must have got it away from Antoine, or whoever it was who had it at that time." "I wish we had a searchlight," suggested Sandy. "I've got a little one for a cent," Tommy answered. "I never leave the camp without one. No knowing when one may be needed," "Strike a light then!" whispered Sandy. "That would be a fine way to get a bullet into my coco!" Tommy whispered back.
These men had no doubt caught a hook in the anchor port and had climbed up without opposition. The invaders stood clearly limned by the searchlight, trying to pick out a target for their fire, when Madden reached for the coal pile.
They were stronger, and much better defended by steel plates than the first gunboats; and each of them carried two six-pounder quick-firing guns, a small howitzer, four Maxims, and a searchlight. They were, however, much slower than the old boats, and could do very little in the way of towing. Besides these, eight steel double-deck troop barges were brought up, in sections, and put together.
Once or twice a marine monster happened to place himself in the field of one of these magnifying windows, startling the observers almost out of their senses with his frightful appearance. There were also four windows reserved for projecting a searchlight into the outer darkness.
Its substance was tough what Bismarck would have called iron painted to look like wood. Another object of Boer wrath was the searchlight. Night attacks were supposed to be the enemy's forte, and it was only the difficulty of extinguishing the candle that delayed our extinction.
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