Missiles
['mɪsl]
Examples
- Raising their rifles they fired into the underbrush in the direction from which the missiles had come. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He had been wounded with some missiles from the crowd on the day of his capture, and his head was bandaged with a linen cloth. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- From China the knowledge of them spread to India, and in both these lands rockets were used as missiles of war as early as the ninth century. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At all events with its feathers and its piercing point the arrow became the most deadly of all missiles, and continued to be until long after the invention of firearms. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here was the secret of the terrible destructiveness of The Archer's tiny missiles. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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