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Flying-crafts, sorta like the ‘air-ships’ of Final Fantasy
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Open Writing Forum 2009
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And yet, as you shall believe, even as I said this thing to my mind, that the strange matter upon the top of the Rock was truly one of the olden air-ships, I did feel that I should be proper to doubt; for it was a very wondrous thing to perceive a thing common to man, in that utter strange Country, and after that I was gone so far off from the Mighty Pyramid.
The Night Land 2007
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Of all these world-forces and gigantic designs Bert Smallways knew nothing until he found himself in the very focus of it all and gaped down amazed on the spectacle of that giant herd of air-ships.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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And there were several navigable gas air-ships, not to mention balloons, in the air.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Clouds veiled the sea again, and the long straggling wedge of air-ships rising and falling as they flew seemed like a flock of strange new births in a Chaos that had neither earth nor water but only mist and sky.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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Once the needful parks and foundries were organised, air-ships and Dracheinflieger could be poured into the sky.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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A second peculiarity of airship war as it first came to the world that also made for social collapse, was the ineffectiveness of the early air-ships against each other.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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They saw strange air-ships going eastward near the Azores and landed to get provisions and repair the rudder at Teneriffe.
The War in the Air Herbert George 2006
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In this game Mr.St. John has again made use of a scientific principle, the "air-ships" being actually controlled by electricity.
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This is the age of air-ships and electricity, so what could be more up-to-date than electric "air-ships" that will float and dive and race around at the will of the operator?
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