Party prop

Usage examples of balloon.

The divine afflatus left him like air oozing from a punctured toy-balloon, and, like such a balloon, he seemed to grow suddenly limp and flat.

Hell, if we could control our automation properly we could house three thousand in this balloon.

Rouleau, as instructed, made his preparation for the ballooning with slow deliberation, giving Fitzfarris ample time to do a booming business with his game.

Day by day the ballooning fever grew more intense, and when the King of Sweden visited Paris of course he had to be entertained with a grand display of the new discovery.

Anyway, this was more important than ballooning so Stafford picked up the telephone to cancel the appointment with Hunt.

And while in ballooning there is no wind, since the balloon is a part of the wind, flying is a wild perpetual creation of and plunging into wind.

As far as the scale of things was concerned, he might have been ballooning over an ordinary cloudscape in India.

As far as the scale of things was concerned, he might have been ballooning over an ordinary cboudscape on Earth.

The place looked sensational, as always, with balloons and strolling guitarists, an enormous buffet supper, and a merengue band.

His popularity might have been because he taught in an informal manner, often relating anecdotes and digressing into such topics as astronomy, meteorology, geology, biology, and agronomy, even balloon navigation and the use of artillery.

You had plans for a monolayer membrane to cap your work, resting atop the whole atmosphere, the largest balloon ever conceived.

Joya showed me the small instrument panel and explained it to me: variometer for rate of ascent and descent, pyrometer for temperature up in the crown of the balloon, compass-which she said was not very meaningful because there was no way to steer once you were aloft.

As the men were hooking the load cables to the tie blocks, Joya showed me the small instrument panel and explained it to me: variometer for rate of ascent and descent, pyrometer for temperature up in the crown of the balloon, compass-which she said was not very meaningful because there was no way to steer once you were aloft.

He saw the flat green mirror of the water, the red and green tracers rising from the merchant ships, slow as little balloons, queuing up to accelerate round his head and kick the water to foam.

With the basket tied down, he operated the recondensing apparatus that released stored hydrogen gas into the inner and outer balloons.