"Airplane" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an old frame barn with a lofty roof which had already been partly shot away and was open to the sky. They were not permitted to repair the roof because the German airplane observers would notice it and know that some activity was going on there which would call for renewed shell fire. However, the top of one of the circus tents was easily run up in the barn so as to form ...
— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill
... from a broken bridge into a stream, and when they attempted to swim to the other side found themselves in the enemy's hands. For a time a German prison camp with all its horrors loomed up before them, but from this they were saved by a friend of theirs, Dick Lever, who swooped down in his airplane, scattered the enemy guards, and carried his friends back in ...
— Army Boys on German Soil • Homer Randall
... that when school ended, June 28, Frank and Bob should join Jack in the Southwest for their summer vacation. The two boys owned an airplane in which they hoped to make the trip when the time came. Mr. Temple, however, was dubious about letting them attempt to make so ...
— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge
... "My airplane—the one that you said was the fat Hodges boy on a motorcycle! Is there any place near here that it can ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various
... manner, he realized the terrible import of this announcement. A race which had been able to cross the vast gulf of intergalactic space in the days when Terrestrians were still developing the airplane—and already they had mapped Jupiter, and planned their colonies! What developments had come? They had molecular rays, cosmic rays, the energy of matter, then—what else had they now? Lux and Relux, the two artificial metals, made of solidified light, ...
— Invaders from the Infinite • John Wood Campbell
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