Do we say fliers or flyers

fliers 49 occurrences

Your son one of the high-fliers at collegehis automobileyour automobile.

"Bud" was regarded as one of the most adept of American fliers.

Strangely then, as Dorn gazed bitterly up at these fierce fliers who fought in the heavens, he remembered the story of the three wise men and of Bethlehem.

But the camel was on its legs now, and the young pressman was safely seated upon one of the fliers of the desert.

YORK 1914 CONTENTS Chapter ITHE BOY FLIERS IION GUARD IIINOT CAUGHT NAPPING IVTHE STARTLING NEWS VTHE EXCITEMENT GROWS VIFIGURING IT ALL OUT VIITHE AIR SCOUTS VIIIJUST BELOW THE CLOUDS IXTHE PILOT OF THE MERMAID XHEARD OVER THE WIRE XICOMPARING NOTES

We're too young to dream of being professional fliers yet; and besides, we've got to go to school again pretty soon.

"Simply to avoid collision with any of the coast guard fliers, who might take us for Huns meaning to attack London again after a long break.

" As he said this he fumbled about his person, producing the automatic pistol with which he usually went on his flights; and without which few air pilots venture to enter into combat with enemy fliers.

"Please don't forget that I'm an aviator, and we fliers are able to put over all sorts of stunts these days," laughed Jack; though his manner implied that he might be joking when saying this.

In 1702 Defoe published a remarkable pamphlet called "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters," supporting the claims of the free churches against the "High Fliers," i.e. Tories and Anglicans.

"If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It maybe, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,

Several fliers were creeping about far up against the 'blue, looking for just such hidden batteries as that which kept barking behind us, and out in front and to the right came the low Brrumm! of heavy guns.

It appeared that two fliers had come from opposite directions and most of the crowd had seen but the one, while the other dropped the bomb.

Hidden batteries in action, reserves moving up, wounded coming back, fliers, trenches quiet for the momentthis is about as close to actual fighting as the outsider, under ordinary circumstances, can expect to get on any front.

Wounds and suffering, burned towns, and broken livesall that is forgotten in the splendid panoramamen and motors and fliers and guns, the cheerful smell of hay and coffee and horses, the clank of heavy trucks and the jangle of chains, all in beautiful harvest country; in the contagion of pushing on, shoulder to shoulder, and the devil take the hindmost, toward something vastly interesting up ahead.

Contrast the Clermont of Fulton with the floating palaces of the present day, the Rocket of Stephenson with the powerful locomotives of our mile-a-minute fliers, and the hand-press of Gutenberg with the marvellous and intricate Hoe presses of modern times.

The sailorman made kites which were not only splendid fliers but which folded up and were very convenient to carry.

I'd better have given you the money to blow in on your fliers on wheat and pork.

Soon the whole became a confused tide of fighters, fliers, and pursuers, which rolled itself towards the city walls, and at last poured into the undefended breach through which the Liégois had sallied.

Soldiers, sailors, fliers and marines, by Mary Elting & Robert T. Weaver.

Soldiers, sailors, fliers and marines.

WEAVER, ROBERT T. Soldiers, sailors, fliers and marines.

Soldiers, sailors, fliers and marines, by Mary Elting & Robert T. Weaver.

Soldiers, sailors, fliers and marines.

WEAVER, ROBERT T. Soldiers, sailors, fliers and marines.

flyers 86 occurrences

Of course it is going back on BACH with a vengeance, but what sympathy can exist between the old fuguemakers and the modern high-flyers?

As kites are eminently high flyers, the phrase here used becomes the more emphatic.

Thousands of American flyers were trained and ready to carry the war into Germany when the Teuton forces collapsed and cried "Enough!"

By this time their flyers dominated the air, and they had gained the immense advantage of artillery superiority.

American flyers also made successful raids across the German border, blowing up munitions works, railway centers, and German troops at concentration points.

AMERICAN FLYERS DOWN 473 PLANES IN TWO MONTHS American flyers made a great record in the closing days of war.

AMERICAN FLYERS DOWN 473 PLANES IN TWO MONTHS American flyers made a great record in the closing days of war.

Many of them, like Lehr, gave up their livesthough not in vain, nor without having sent down to crashing death, each one, his share of the flyers of the foe.

The American flyers surrounded the German Fokker like a flock of birds, and instead of shooting it down, which would have been easy, they maneuvered their planes so the boche machine was forced toward the American lines.

She was only a fore-and-after, carrying no standing topsail, even, and we named her after two of the river girls, who were flyers, in their way; at least, I thought so then; though a man by sailing a packet comes to alter his notions about men and things, or, for that matter, about women and things, too.

I also found that the best flyers were not equal to the feat of keeping me company, when walking at my usual pace; hence I inferred that velocity was a necessary element in flight, and that gravity, so fatal to human attempts to fly, might be made a powerful auxiliary when rightly used.

The following extracts from a printed sermon by one of them, on the subject of "soul-confirmation," will at once exemplify the contempt and scorn with which these high-flyers regarded their more sober-minded brethren, and serve as a specimen of the homely eloquence with which they excited their followers.

SEE Emerson, Alice B. The search for the lost flyers.

The search for the lost flyers; or, Ted Scott over the West Indies, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. of Edward Stratemeyer.

MARTIN, EUGENE, pseud. Randy Starr leading the air circus; or, The sky flyers in a daring stunt.

SEE Armitage, Theresa. EAKER, IRA C. Skyways to Berlin: with the American flyers in England.

LEYSHON, HAROLD I. Skyways to Berlin: with the American flyers in England.

Skyways to Berlin: with the American flyers in England.

F. E. Rechnitzer (A); 29Jul70; R488747. REDDING, JOHN M. Skyways to Berlin: with the American flyers in England, by John M. Redding & Harold I. Leyshon.

Skyways to Berlin: with the American flyers in England.

MARTIN, EUGENE, pseud. Randy Starr above stormy seas; or, The sky flyers on a perilous journey, by Eugene Martin, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams and Edna C. Squier.

© 18Jun31; A38973. Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier (A); 21Jan59; R229444. Randy Starr after an air prize; or, The sky flyers in a dash down the states, by Eugene Martin, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams and Edna C. Squier.

F. E. Rechnitzer (A); 29Jul70; R488747. REDDING, JOHN M. Skyways to Berlin: with the American flyers in England, by John M. Redding & Harold I. Leyshon.

Skyways to Berlin: with the American flyers in England.

" "Now what is there that preys upon all this vegetable lifeupon every plant, from the grass to the tree, destroying them all equally?" "Bugs and worms and all kinds of crawlers and flyers and hoppers," said Rap.

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