"Here are some stamps and two balloons for Jim.

To provide a sufficient supply of kite balloons for the work of the Grand Fleet.

It was intended also to provide kite balloons for flotillas or single vessels engaged in submarine hunting or in convoy work.

Balbi, Countess de. Balloons introduced into France by Montgolfier.

Montesquieu, Marquis de. Montgolfier's balloons introduced.

SILAS: (letting go of the balloons he has bought)

(he is tying the gay balloons to his gun, then as he talks, hangs his hat in the corner closet)

He immediately took them inside the house and in another minute had thrust into Andy's eager hands a discolored piece of silk, such as is used in the making of balloons.

The age of barbarism will return, in spite of railways, telegraphs and balloons.

But these balloons might be made of some use, nevertheless.

Balloons can be capricious at times.

Those willing to pay high prices would have arranged for them such displays as "normal artillery activity," pukka strafes, S.O.S. bombardments or barrages chaperoning infantry advances, while balloons might be set on fire, dumps blown up, or leave cancelled at special rates.

If Germany equipped her army with war balloons, Russia and France had to do the same.

Marconi saw that balloons and kites, the playthings of the winds, were unsuitable for his purpose, and sought some more stable support for his sending and receiving apparatus.

The balloons were made of the finest, lightest Japanese silk, carefully prepared and still more vigorously tested.

The Twenty-one balloons, Written & illustrated by William Pene Du Bois.

Uncle Wiggily's laughing gas balloons; or, How the bad chaps took an air trip, and Uncle Wiggily's hobolins and gobolins.

Antioch, The Siege of (POPULAR DELUSIONS) Artillery Tactics Athens, Present Appearance of Attock, Description of the Fort of Bacon, Remarks on Lord (D'ISRAELI) Balloons, Account of Baltic, Battle of the (CAMPBELL) Beetle, The Bell, The Founding of the (MACKAY) Bible, Value of the (BUCK) Birds, Appropriateness of the Songs of (DR.

Balloons occupy senators, philosophers, ladies, everybody.

The former Icarus broke his neck at a subsequent flight: when a similar accident happens to modern knights-errant, adieu to air-balloons.

] BALLOONS.

But I chiefly amused myself with ideas of the change that would be made in the world by the substitution of balloons to ships.

They leave such heroic scourges to be decorated by the Voltaires and D'Alemberts of the Gauls, or wait till by the improvement of balloons they may be transported to some of those millions of worlds that Herschel is discovering every day; for this new Columbus has thrown open the great gates of astronomy, and neither Spanish inquisitors nor English Nabobs will be able to torture and ransack the new regions and their inhabitants.

Balloons were similarly employed.

He soon recognized, however, that a practical commercial system, which should be capable of sending and receiving messages day and night, regardless of the weather, could not be operated with kites or balloons.