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.

A rocket in the darkness.

"Just run and tell East to come and back me," said Tom to a small school-house boy, who was off like a rocket to Harrowell's, just stopping for a moment to poke his head into the school-house hall, where the lower boys were already at tea, and sing out, "Fight!

Like rockets from a tube, the boar and his progeny come crashing through the brake, and separate before you on the plain.

At the recollection she sent up rocket after rocket of schoolgirl laughter.

Rocketing round the world.

Rockets through space.

The rocket-boats were now throwing rockets over our ships into the mole, the effects of which, were occasionally seen on the shipping on our larboard bow.

Here, thereforein his France,if not always free from flightiness, if now and then off like a rocket for an airy wheel in the clouds, M. Michelet, with natural politeness, never forgets that he has left a large audience waiting for him on earth, and gazing upwards in anxiety for his return: return, therefore, he does.

He slid along it for a hundred feet or more on his stomach, like a rocket with a wake of spray and slush for a tail.

The strangely ill-told story of the copper images, by which the Mongals were scorched with wild-fire, may refer to the actual employment either of cannon or rockets against the Mongals in this invasion.

" Mea flared like a rocket at her brother's suggestion, crying violently, "Indeed you won't, Kurt.

In The Engineer for September 17, 1880, we did our best to place a true statement of the facts concerning the Rocket before our readers.

But it seems that the Meteor and the ArrowStephenson engineswere tried at the same time; and this is really the only hint Wood gives as to what was done to the Rocket between the 6th of October, 1829, and the 15th of September, 1830.

A moment later, the rockets on the Silver Cloud ignited and the ship began to slow.

But the sound of the body striking the waves rocketed up to them with sickening distinctness.

Employ the side walls as much as possible to keep the ball ricocheting and rocketing about the court so your opponent becomes frustrated and almost dizzy from following the flight of your angled shots.