I have seen one aeroplane swoop down out of the blue to attack a formation of six enemy machines, sending one crashing to earth and dispersing the remainder.

Our Fowler, whose proud bird would brook erewhile No rival's swoop in all our western air! Gather the ravens, then, in funeral file, For him, life's morn-gold bright yet in his hair? "Leave me not hopeless, ye unpitying dames!

There were not many people who saw the "Taube"the German dovemake its swoop and hurl its fire-balls.

Just as the engine began to ring its warning bell, and the conductor to wave the people aboard, there was a loud clatter of hoofs, and the rickety old Lakerim carryall came dashing up, drawn by the lively horses Sawed-Off had once saved from destroying themselves and the Dozen in one fell swoop down a steep hill.

Sir Giles seems to hover over you as a rapacious vulture might do before making his swoop.

Till I lunched (the very proudest) With the Staff at A.H.Q. 'Twas a scene of peace and plenty, Plates a-steam and-spoons a-swoop; 'Twas a sound of five-and-twenty Hungry Generals drinking soup.

He being like unto the roaring lions in courage taketh unto him their spirit to be his own in the struggle: but in sleight he is as the fox that spreadeth out her feet and preventeth the swoop of the eagle: for all means must be essayed by him that would prevail over his foe.

Instantly they swung their machine around in time to see the Golden Butterfly make her sickening downward swoop.

All this time Roy had kept the Golden Butterfly hovering above the liner, from time to time taking swoops and dives around it like some monstrous sea gull.

yelled the crowd, as the machine soared right on and did not begin its downward swoop for some distance.

Nothing save the interminable, thundering swoop of the boat downwards, and then the halt and upward hurl, and the occasional plunges and surges to larboard or starboard, occasioned, I can only suppose, by the indiscriminate might of the seas.