Rockets
['rɑkɪt]
Examples
- When I think of this _deggerredation_, I feel that I can bear even my flat nose and purple gown with yellow sky-rockets on it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- 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.
- The Story in Firecrackers and Sky-Rockets[9] Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was much shelling and many rockets in the rain and machine-gun and rifle fire all along the line. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In time, rockets, squibs and torpedoes were included in the consignment, but it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that their use became general in America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The next morning we were at the mouth of the cave at an early hour, provided with guides, candles and rockets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There were racks of rockets standing to be touched off to call for help from the artillery or to signal with if the telephone wires were cut. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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