52 Words to use with balloons

[1109] Lunardi had made, on Sept. 15, the first balloon ascent in England.

"It's a sort of a balloon ascension, isn't it?"

Even as someone who knew sang out to us that this was the balloon cannon in the German aviation field back of the town opening up, a tiny ball of smoke appeared against the sky, seemingly quite close to the darting flyer, and blossomed out with downy, dainty white petals, like a flower.

It was unquestionably a trying effort for her, especially the balloon voyage, which would expose her to the cold of the mists and of the night, and I feared to the intenser cold of the upper air.

As I looked, and as all of us looked, the balloon basket hit the earth and was made fast; and in that same instant a cannon boomed somewhere well over to the right.

With Major von Abercron for a mate he sailed from St. Louis in the great balloon race for the James Gordon Bennett Cup.

As it swirled down the wind in our direction the vigilant balloon guns again got its range, and, to the throbbing tune of their twin boomings, it ducked and dodged away, executing irregular and hurried upward spirals until the cloud-fleece swallowed it up.

There are very few safe jobs in this army, but being a captive-balloon observer is one of the least safe of them all.

Fleet kite balloon stations had already been established at Rosyth and Scapa, and the resources of the latter station were supplemented by a kite balloon ship.

My master is a boy who taught me to do tricks, such as jumping rope, but I ran away and had a balloon ride.

The motor was running smoothly, the balloon skin was taut, and everything was working well; pulling the rudder slightly, Santos-Dumont headed directly for the great steel shaft.

The balloon men carried it with them, and when they found the balloon coming down, because some of the gas had leaked out of the round ball above the basket, they would let some of the sand run out of the bags to the ground below.

It is an exciting life a balloon operator in the German Army lives, but it is not, as a rule, a long one.

Balloon moon; with illus.

I didn't pay any attention to his chatter, thinking it nothing but balloon juice.

" At this moment Fred came in, bearing in one hand a quantity of paper, and in another a book with directions for balloon making.

I imagine this is because the building remains stationary and a balloon moves.

Except for these, and a glimpse of Lowe's balloon overhead, Berkley could not see anything whatever even remotely connected with the uproar which continued steadily in the west and south.

It is supposed that no inconsiderable part of the ice and snow immediately surrounding the poles covers land; but, though balloon parties have of late occasionally reached the poles, they have never ventured to remain there long enough to disembark and ascertain the fact.

She was of about observation balloon proportions, and had an unerring eye for the main chance.

Mr. Punchinello:One of the balloon reporters from Paris says: "Great care is taken to save food from waste.

Squinty had had enough of balloon riding.

What do the balloon scouts of Paris use for ballast? Answer.

light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than air; rise like a balloon, float like a balloon SECTION II.

Fleet kite balloon stations had already been established at Rosyth and Scapa, and the resources of the latter station were supplemented by a kite balloon ship.

52 Words to use with  balloons