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Examples
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But how the air-ship did come upon the rock, how shall I know; save, maybe, it doth seem as that she might have flown low over the sea in that olden age, and come hard upon the Rock, because, maybe, there was one to the helm that did steer unwittingly.
The Night Land 2007
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This gallery was all of aluminium magnesium alloy, the tight front of the air-ship swelled cliff-like above and below, and the black eagle sprawled overwhelmingly gigantic, its extremities all hidden by the bulge of the gas-bag.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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My writing got a bit stupid there with a coffin like air-ship balloon.
Archive 2006-05-01 E.Jim Shannon 2006
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My writing got a bit stupid there with a coffin like air-ship balloon.
E.Jim Shannon E.Jim Shannon 2006
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In the evening it began to blow and the air-ship to roll like a porpoise as it swung through the air.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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That same night he had by force abducted the president and the secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the
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The clear, moonlit evening had permitted me to note the direction taken by the air-ship.
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The air-ship soared upward into the heart of the sky, amid a thousand lightning flashes, surrounded and shaken by the bursts of thunder.
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My air-ship was delayed by a collision with a fellow from China loaded with the usual cargo of jabbering, copper-colored missionaries, and so I was nearly an hour on my journey.
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Here was the garage of his automobile; the harbor of his boat; the hangar of his air-ship.
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